“Take time to make time.” “Go slow to go fast.” These are common sayings in many classrooms. They speak to the importance of developing routines, building relationships, and learning how…
Design Flexible Lessons for Hybrid Learning
If you design hybrid lessons like you would design a traditional, face-to-face lesson, you will likely end up creating multiple versions of every lesson, with one for each learning group…
Start With the Big Picture When Planning for Hybrid Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the hybrid-learning model a popular way for schools to improve health and safety by reducing the number of students in a classroom. It can also…
Develop Your Students’ Digital Organization Skills: eFiles, eBinders, and ePortfolios
As educators, we know how important student organization is to their educational success. Traditionally, we have helped our students learn to organize their papers into folders and three-ring binders, and…
Increase Digital Citizenship in Your Classroom
Teachers are often said to be one of the most powerful influences on a student’s achievement. Knowing that, how might we be able to influence our students’ knowledge and implementation…
Turning on the Lights
In this lesson, students take their first step in creating code they can wear! The Turning on the Lights lesson shows students how they can create their very own image…
#14 – Develop a Positive Teacher Presence
Unlike face-to-face teaching that relies on your physical presence, teaching presence in virtual learning depends on course design and organization, as well as your facilitation style during online interactions. How…
Liquids in Microgravity
How do you drink a cup of water when you are in orbit and do not feel the pull of gravity? Students will start to understand the difficulties of carrying…
Hanny’s Voorwerp
How can your students help NASA? Students will learn about citizen scientists and how they can impact scientific discovery and support professional scientists. Learning Objectives Develop understanding of what a…
Foster Substantive and Respectful Online Discussions
Class discussion is a highly effective strategy. The discourse that takes place during a discussion helps students process their new learning while deepening and broadening their understanding of the content….
Incorporate Playlists Into Blended Learning
The playlist is another very flexible blended-learning model, and like station rotation and flipped learning, playlists are often used in conjunction with other blended-learning models. Also like these other models,…
#16 – More Dos (and Fewer Don’ts) for Teaching Digital Citizenship
Don’t share your personal information. Don’t talk to strangers. Don’t post rude comments. Too often, we have started the conversation about digital citizenship with students around the don’ts. That mindset…
#15 – Practice Self-Care: Tips for Teachers and Students
Whether you are in a completely remote or hybrid classroom, the reality of teaching during a pandemic has required teachers to develop new routines. Many of us are struggling with…
Wordwall
Wordwall is a “freemium” product that allows you to create both digital and printable activities. Simply choose a template, enter your content, and print or play on screen. With the…
Enhance Classroom Netiquette and Diminish Cyberbullying
Many things possible today through the use of technology were not possible just a few years, months, days, or even seconds ago. Technology can amplify all types of human behavior….