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Elementary Literacy Mailbag:

Remote Learning

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What does this look like for students?

You have to teach your students how to behave in your new classroom.

Things to consider:

  • Using features such as hand raising
  • Muting all participants
  • Disabling private chats
  • Using the chat as an opportunity for students to ask questions and reminding them the chat is public and can be saved
  • Appropriate location
  • Appropriate dress
  • Appropriate behavior
  • Acceptable written communication

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Best PlatForms/Recordings

  • Keep the videos short
  • Be purposeful of what you share
  • Chunk your information if you have a lot
  • Plan and practice
  • Redo if needed
  • Relax and have fun!
  • Online Instructional Videos
  • Share videos through LMS
    • SeeSaw is easier for younger students
    • Classroom or other LMS for older
  • Edpuzzle
  • Flipgrid

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CREAtive Platforms

  • Padlet
    • Online “bulletin board”
    • Students can collaborate/share links to work
    • Free version has limited number of boards
  • Lino
    • Like Padlet but completely free
    • With color options!
  • Webjets
    • Another Padlet alternative
  • Answer Garden
    • Collaborative “Wordle”

  • Animaker
    • Animated Videos
  • Scratch
    • Create games and videos
  • Prezi
    • The “zooming” slides
  • Buncee
    • Presentations
    • Free version has limited “buncees”
  • ShadowPuppet
    • iPad
    • Easy video creation
  • Pixton
    • Comic creator
  • Flipgrid

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Screentime - How much? Type?

  • Passive vs. Active screentime
    • Are students watching or doing?
  • Keep it short
  • Lots of breaks
  • Vary activities
  • Set devices to limit notifications
  • Protect your eyes!

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Copyright/Mackinvia

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How do I create a Backpack?

Please note: you will only need to create a Backpack if your school or library has not created one for you. Please ask your teacher librarian if you already have a Backpack in MackinVIA. Cheryl Roberson or Cari Teske from Central Rivers AEA Media Services can also give assistance!

Recent webinar over MackinVIA

MackinVIA How To Videos

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Reading/Writing

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Interacting with Students/ Feedback

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Source: Feedback that Makes Learning Visible Presentation (Peter Dewitt)

Level of Feedback

What is it?

When do we use it?

Reflective Prompts

Task

Process

Self - Regulation

Focus is on distinguishing correct from incorrect; acquiring more or different information; building more surface level knowledge

New Material

Are they correct/ incorrect?

What did they do well?

Where did they go wrong?

What is the correct answer?

Focus is on relationship between ideas; cueing the learning to different strategies; explicitly learning from errors

Some Degree of Proficiency

What is wrong and why?

What strategies did they use?

What other information do they need to meet the criteria?

Focus is on ability to create internal feedback and self assess; being able to review work to decide if an answer is correct; seeking further information and/or confirm a response

High Degree of Proficiency

How can they monitor their own work?

How can they reflect on their own learning?

Can you now teach another student to…

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What’s Working?

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Other Questions?

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Shameless MackinVIA Summer Reading promotion

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Things to consider

Decide on the purpose of the lesson

  • What do you want your students to get out of it?
  • What are the learning targets/objectives?
  • What exemplars can you provide to help students understand success criteria?

Plan out key points you want to address

  • Create an outline for yourself to ensure that you cover the main points of the lesson

Think about the timing of your videos

  • Keep recordings short-what is the most essential content that needs to be addressed
  • Remember the attention span of the students you teach
  • If you have a lot of material to cover, chunk the materials into multiple videos

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What is a good timeframe?

Real-time meeting:

  • No more than an hour!
  • Plan activities and interactions for students

Recordings:

  • Six minutes maximum!
    • If you have more content, chunk it into separate videos.
    • Plan activities for students based on information in the recording

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Breakout Room Round 1

  • Introduction
  • What has been going well?
  • What have you tried that has worked really well?
  • Have you tried anything that didn’t work, why not??

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Round 2 Questions for Break-Out

  • Are there ways you are ensuring equitable access?
  • Any tips or pointers for increasing engagement?
  • What additional supports around continuous learning would be helpful?

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Equitable Access

Providing ALL students access to any curriculum that you may be sharing with students should be a priority! This can be difficult through technology.

  • Online access vs. paper packets
  • ELL students
  • Students working below grade level
  • Sp Ed
  • Cultural differences

There are many tools that can help you do this with your students to ensure that you are meeting their IEP needs and/or personal needs.

Google Tools to Level the Playing Field

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Equitable Access

Not only should IEP and personal learning needs be considered, but cultural needs should be addressed as well.

Tips for working in a culturally diverse environment:

  • Keep the language standard and culture neutral
  • Make expectations about online learning clear
  • Be accessible

Avoid making generalizations about individuals

  • Understand your target audience

Reminder: You know these students! Use this knowledge to support them in a new environment

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Engaging Students

This shift for students will be difficult and it will be important to work with students to meet their needs and think about ways to engage them in learning with each other, individually, and as a whole group.

  • Provide opportunities for discussion
    • (learning focused and personal)
    • Written and face-to-face
  • Provide opportunities for group work

Current situation requires different approaches than a traditional/new online course.. The need personal and emotional connections as well as structured learning

  • Ice breakers
  • Games
  • Riddles
  • Show and tell

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Ways to Build Successful Discussion

  • Require participation
  • Provide an overview of what is due for each week
  • Make the discussion interesting
  • Require a product which is based on or the result of the discussion
  • Keep your tone clear, concise, and conversational
  • Structure the discussion
  • Allow the students to lead the discussion as well
  • Include ideas and information generated in discussion on assessments
  • Form small groups or learning teams
  • Make sure discussions are long enough to allow full and thoughtful participation
  • Deal with unacceptable behavior via private email
  • Be encouraging, supportive, timely, and constructive

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Using Tech Tools To Engage students

Things to consider when choosing a tool for learning:

  • What is the purpose
  • How much teaching of the tool is needed
  • How will students access this tool
  • Will it interfere with learning the content
  • Ease of access
  • Your own comfort with the tool

Providing learning in a new environment can be difficult in itself, choose tech tools that you feel comfort in guiding your students through content

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