Blog this week about what’s on your mind and what you’ve learned from this program that’s helped you transition to remote learning. What insights do you want to share with others, your administration, etc.
In an overarching sense, just being open to innovation and not seeing big changes as problems but rather as opportunities, has helped me to have the right attitude in this stressful transition to distance learning. We are now being required to teach this way. It will probably end soon. The lessons we have learned from this shock to the system will stay with us and change our teaching forever. A few of the concrete, technical skills I've learning in this class that have helped me are a familiarity with Zoom, an ability to create a quiz in Google Forms, the ability to record myself in a lesson in Zoom that includes a doc cam and Wacom device. I'm doing all of these things for 5 math lessons a week in my distance learning. I share the videos through YouTube. Those are probably the main technical skills that this program has helped me with. Also the increased familiarity with linking content has been a big help. Doing all of this has always felt to me kind of like wading in a muddy pond where you don't know where it's safe to step because you can't see the bottom and you have to go slow and feel around for every step. Now, the waters are starting to clear and I am stepping forward with more ease. I'll include a copy here of my weekly distance learning plan. This has taken qite a bit of energy in the last few weeks. It's kept me from my DQ! Wait that's an excuse. I'm so bummed about my stalled research that I am having a hard time motivating to write the DQ Analysis as an unfinished product. Hopefully, my shareable link will share with you all. I think it will! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AwqvbLdD1xaEIvdAGOVS-4jPbajlAs1iy5ZZvWafqQc/edit?usp=sharing
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Megan Burton
4/20/2020 03:57:36 pm
Hi Jeremy,
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Jeremy Smith
4/22/2020 04:47:24 pm
Thanks, Megan, for the response. Yeah it reminds me of that bit of info that reminds us that the Chinese symbol for crisis and opportunity is the same thing. I finally got into a mind space where I was able to work on the DQ Analysis more. Still, this crisis threw such a wrench in things that I am having a hard time feeling good about it.
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Ryan Strole
4/22/2020 01:39:28 pm
"Doing all of this has always felt to me kind of like wading in a muddy pond where you don't know where it's safe to step because you can't see the bottom and you have to go slow and feel around for every step. Now, the waters are starting to clear and I am stepping forward with more ease."
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Jeremy Smith
4/22/2020 04:49:57 pm
Thanks, Ryan! I appreciate the positive comments. I need them now because even though I can see a little better where I'm stepping, the rocks have gotten a lot bigger. No?
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