by Jennifer Bloomingdale | Oct 28, 2020 | Instant Impact Collaborative Cohort, Remote Learning- COVID-19, Teaching Online
The biggest challenge we’re hearing with virtual learning is that students are disengaged and off task. Everyone is frustrated, teachers are putting hours into planning and kids aren’t showing up. How can we pivot and re-engage students? The short answer...
by April Chamberlain | Oct 22, 2020 | Instant Impact Collaborative Cohort, Learning, Less Teacher, More Student, Remote Learning- COVID-19, Teaching Online
Covid-19 has brought many challenges to the classroom. It doesn’t matter if you are teaching face-to-face, hybrid/blended or completely online, teaching in a global pandemic creates hurdles. If you are like me, one of the challenges you face may cause you...
by April Chamberlain | Oct 16, 2020 | Instant Impact Collaborative Cohort, Learning communities, Less Teacher, More Student, Remote Learning- COVID-19, Teaching Online
It is 9:00 AM and the first virtual class of the day has started. Students begin to join some with video and some without and a few students talk to each other so several conversations are going at once while others are silent. The lesson begins and it feels to the teacher that they are the only one engaged in the lesson. It is quiet and at times silent when the teacher asks questions. How might we develop structures for all students to be active in their live online classroom?
by Powerful Learning Practice | Oct 7, 2020 | Connected Leadership, Instant Impact Collaborative Cohort, Remote Learning- COVID-19
Sometimes profound thinking comes out of the most innocent of discussions. This morning I was asked, “How did you crack the nut when you were creating online learning for teachers- the kind that truly meets their needs right now?”I took about 8...
by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach | Oct 6, 2020 | Connected Educator, Remote Learning- COVID-19
Would we feel more connected and have a sense of community if we called the learning taking place today connected learning, rather than distant or remote? Share...
by Jennifer Bloomingdale | Oct 6, 2020 | Connected Educator, Remote Learning- COVID-19
Distracted and Off Task to Engaged and Interactive: Redesigning Online Meetings Your students are unsure about live meetings, they’re disengaged, under the table, making faces in the camera. More so, you’re not feeling as connected as you did in the face-to-face...