This week, we are talking all about how to balance hybrid learning. It's been such a challenging year so far to engage both cohorts of students, both face-to-face and online, at the same time.  So we will go over some suggestions for  how to structure large learning blocks, flipped learning, and differentiation for your students.

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• Large learning blocks of time (2 - 3 hour learning blocks) - Structure suggestions:
  • Challenges: engaging for the whole time, group work, physical limitations
  • Going back and forth between whole group and small group sessions to break things up
  • Use breakout rooms - tools like Zoom, Adobe Connect, or Google Meet can be used
  • If using Google Meet - hack breakout rooms by having them all open with closed captions on and use the Mute Tab chrome extension (listen to E024 for more info!)
    • If you're lucky enough to have an Enterprise account, check out the new breakout rooms feature in Google Meet!
  • Digital citizenship discussions need to continue ALL year - See E021 for more details
  • Student autonomy requires scaffolding!
  • Continuously work on community building/building peer-to-peer relationships - it will help with conversation in breakout rooms
  • No conversation? Check in with them! Make sure they understand the instructions/task that they are working on
  • Wellness checks are so important! Try a poll!
  • If you're hybrid, try doing grouping with your face-to-face students, and have your online students in breakout rooms
  • Create Google Chat rooms for breakouts instead of using Meet - use it to create community between cohorts
  • Consider having students join the class synchronously for the whole time (include breaks)
• Flipped Learning
  • Video/Written content for knowledge building and in class time is used for collaborative practice
  • Could be done by engaging all of the class together or stagger content so that those at home would be working asynchronously on flipped content
  • Consider whole class connection at beginning/end of class for wellness check-ins
  • Start small!
• Tech Tool Tip: Keep it simple. Use the tools you are already familiar with and save learning the other ones for quads where you have th

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