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Thoughts on remote teaching and some things that have been working well for me after a couple of weeks...
1) Spiral
2) Class Notebook
3) Breakout rooms
4) Visualiser
A THREAD
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1) Spiral
2) Class Notebook
3) Breakout rooms
4) Visualiser
A THREAD
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Each lesson I begin with this sheet under my visualiser as a kind of loading/waiting screen. I use it for every lesson/class and just change the details on the post it note.
It also directs students to go to http://spiral.ac which has been a big part of my remote teaching
It also directs students to go to http://spiral.ac which has been a big part of my remote teaching
Spiral, which is a technological equivalent of mini whiteboards with all student responses showing on one screen, has 2 settings that I have been using the most, in fact most lessons:
1) Quickfire
2) Quickfire lite
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1) Quickfire
2) Quickfire lite
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**Quickfire**
This is a pre-written quiz that students can answer at their own pace and all responses are shown on screen at once, like this.
I’ve been using this as a replacement for lesson starter retrieval and instead of Forms.
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This is a pre-written quiz that students can answer at their own pace and all responses are shown on screen at once, like this.
I’ve been using this as a replacement for lesson starter retrieval and instead of Forms.
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I’ve found Quickfire to be easier to create than Forms and easier to see at a glance the full scope of the class’ response to better address any misconceptions
After finishing I share my teacher view to students so all responses are visible and look at each question in turn
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After finishing I share my teacher view to students so all responses are visible and look at each question in turn
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**Quickfire lite**
This is the same idea as Quickfire but rather than pre-writing questions you can ask a question during class and students then type their responses.
I use this instead of 3-2-1 send in chat. Great to see a snapshot of class understanding and to feedback
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This is the same idea as Quickfire but rather than pre-writing questions you can ask a question during class and students then type their responses.
I use this instead of 3-2-1 send in chat. Great to see a snapshot of class understanding and to feedback
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What I’m most liking about Quickfire/spiral is you can see all responses on one screen, can then share that screen so the class can see them, names can be hidden when sharing, and you can zoom in on specific answers.
Great for small written tasks and to increase ratio
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Great for small written tasks and to increase ratio
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**Class Notebook**
I’ve posted a lot recently about how I’m using notebook but it’s mostly to share and distribute content and then for any extended writing, with spiral being used for shorter responses
I then use Notebook to deliver feedback, typically audio or live
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I’ve posted a lot recently about how I’m using notebook but it’s mostly to share and distribute content and then for any extended writing, with spiral being used for shorter responses
I then use Notebook to deliver feedback, typically audio or live
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**Breakout rooms**
This has been a really great way to mimic think/pair/share, which I use a lot when teaching normally. I tend to use this in much the same way as I would in class which means: specified and narrow topic of discussion and a reasonably short time limit
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This has been a really great way to mimic think/pair/share, which I use a lot when teaching normally. I tend to use this in much the same way as I would in class which means: specified and narrow topic of discussion and a reasonably short time limit
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The time limit tends to be less than 5 minutes and usually just a couple, but I tend to do them multiple times a lesson.
Great for allowing students to test out/rehearse ideas before group discussion, something which is tricky at the best of times to orchestrate remotely
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Great for allowing students to test out/rehearse ideas before group discussion, something which is tricky at the best of times to orchestrate remotely
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**Visualiser**
Some things never change! This is still the workhorse of my set up. I’m still using physical booklets/texts and annotating them under the visualiser. I’m still modelling under it.
This has been augmented by the above tools, but the visualiser is still key!
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Some things never change! This is still the workhorse of my set up. I’m still using physical booklets/texts and annotating them under the visualiser. I’m still modelling under it.
This has been augmented by the above tools, but the visualiser is still key!
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So what does this look like together in a lesson? Of course just a broad template but a lesson might look like this:
1. Retrieval quiz with spiral
2. Teacher led discussion under the visualiser interspersed by spiral/breakout rooms
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1. Retrieval quiz with spiral
2. Teacher led discussion under the visualiser interspersed by spiral/breakout rooms
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3. Usually some kind of independent task via Class Notebook and monitored in real time
4. Feedback on the task
It might be, if using lots of spiral to check understanding as well as breakout, we do less of 3/4 or it might be 3/4 occupy a whole lesson.
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4. Feedback on the task
It might be, if using lots of spiral to check understanding as well as breakout, we do less of 3/4 or it might be 3/4 occupy a whole lesson.
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