Next, review curated resources for teaching and learning in "CONNECT."
21Things4Students: Thing 3 - My Digital Life. This Thing will help you build an understanding of the different learning preferences that help students become “empowered learners.” These learners will then be able to successfully interact with your FOTC.
Q1: What's Your Style Q3: Let's Get Organized Q4: Portrait of a Digital Learner
Introduction Phase: Create a comic, Flipgrid or infographic that tells the story about your life or something interesting that has happened in it.
Technical Training Phase: Before you begin something new, it's always helpful to assess what you already know. Take this survey to help you determine the skills needed for successful online learning.
Make Learning Accessible
- Accessibility Features of Microsoft Teams
- Using a screen reader in Google Classroom
- Google Accessibility
- EduPaths - APeter Schaafsma
Loom is a video recording tool that helps you get your message across through instantly shareable videos. With Loom, you can record your camera, microphone, and desktop simultaneously.
Read&Write for Google Chrome is an extension that provides comprehensive reading and writing supports for Google Docs and the web as well as PDFs, ePubs, and KES files stored in Google Drive. Teachers can get a FREE premium subscription to Read&Write for Google Chrome. Learn about the features for each platform.
Support Best Practice
What engagement strategies do you use during face-to-face instruction to help students pay attention, be energized, be intrigued, and be inspired? How can those same learning objectives be achieved using flexible technologies and the polling, chat, annotation, and whiteboard features in Zoom or other video conferencing platforms? Consider how you might use the following research-based engagement strategies to foster student learning in a digital environment (Marzano, 2017).
When you incorporate TPACK, the following apply:
- Technology involves a Learning Management System
- Pedagogy integrates the best practice principles of Blended Learning and the models from the Christensen Institute.
- Content Knowledge in your blended course can be presented in a variety of different ways. Organized your content within your blended course by subject, by unit, by week, or etc. and is up to the teacher’s discretion.
We will take these connections a step further and break down the planning and integration of your blended course by ISTE Standard in the Apply section.