Episode 40: A New Way of Teaching

With our campus closed due to COVID-19 and distance learning in full swing, Kelly and Sean discuss the brighter side of all these sudden changes to education.

The sudden shift to distance learning for much of the world has introduced more than a few challenges, but many opportunities arise as well. Kelly and Sean talk about the importance of using online tools to capture attention, to shift learning from synchronous to asynchronous delivery, and even how to ask questions of your students that engage their learning.

We'll be recording from home, so you may hear quite a bit of background noise as we record amongst our busy families. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

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• Seth's Blog — The conversation A short manifesto about the future of online interaction
• Repl.it - Multiplayer — Never code alone Code live together with a solid community of programmers, in public and private repls.
• Harkness table - Wikipedia — The Harkness table, Harkness method, or Harkness discussion is a teaching and learning method involving students seated in a large, oval configuration to discuss ideas in an encouraging, open-minded environment with only occasional or minimal teacher intervention.
• Platformer Tutorial — Arcade 2.3.9 documentation — In this tutorial, use Python 3.6+ and the Arcade library to create your own 2D platformer. Learn to work with Sprites and the Tiled Map Editor to create your own games. Add coins, ramps, moving platforms, enemies, and more.
• Getting Started with Breakout Rooms – Zoom Help Center — Breakout Rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, and can switch between sessions at any time.
• If Corona doesn't kill us, Distance Learning will - YouTube — Fantastic Israeli parent's response to all the Distance Learning thang! Words and rant by Shiri Keningsberg Levi. Translated by Robbie Gringras for Makom.
• Remember, Online Learning Isn't the Only Way to Learn Remotely - Education Week — This time of school closure provides a magnificent opportunity for us to envision a kind of learning that is different from what happens in our classrooms. We can invite students to learn something that they are curious about or practice a skill that is important to them, and we can connect their learning back to our educational standards. Students may not learn all the content that we had thought we would cover this month. But that loss can be balanced by tremendous benefits.
• 9 Apps for Parents | Project Zero — Nine easy discussion starters for parents of the App Generation:
• J o n a t h a n on Twitter: "If you see me talking to myself next week, don’t worry.. im just having a parent-teacher conference" / Twitter — If you see me talking to myself next week, don’t worry.. im just having a parent-teacher conference

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