What a year! Twelve months and counting since COVID expanded,
stretched, and blurred the boundaries of teaching and learning, at
least one thing has remained constant: our commitment as educators
to move learning forward. It's just the context that keeps
changing-why Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Almarode, and Aleigha
Henderson-Rosser have created a follow-up to The Distance Learning
Playbook, their all-new Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and
Blended Learning. First, to be clear: simultaneous learning must
not be an additive, meaning we combine two entirely different
approaches and double our workload. That's unsustainable! Instead,
we must extract, integrate, and implement what works best from both
distance learning and face-to-face learning environments. Then and
only then-Doug, Nancy, John, and Aleigha insist-can we maximize the
learning opportunities for all of our students. To that end, The
Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and Blended Learning describes
how to: Have clarity about the most important learning outcomes for
our students. This will help us decide what is best done
asynchronously and what is best done with our "Roomies" and
"Zoomies." Capitalize on the potential of asynchronous learning and
use that valuable time to preview and review. This way we can draw
on evidence from these tasks to help us decide where to go next in
our teaching and our students' learning. Utilize synchronous
learning for collaborative learning and scaffolding of content,
skills, and essential understandings. In doing so, we can collect
additional evidence of students' learning so that we provide
feedback that moves learning forward. Establish norms for combining
synchronous and face-to-face environments in simultaneous learning.
Importantly, we have to set up the environment for our Roomies and
Zoomies to learn together. Develop learning experiences and tasks
that maximize learner engagement for all learners in all settings.
Focus on acceleration and learning recovery. In other words, no
more deficit thinking! Our students are where they are and there
are specific things that we can do to ensure their learning.
Implement the guide's many resources, strategies, and templates.
"None of us chose to be in a situation where some learners are
physically in our classrooms, while others attend virtually and
remotely," write Doug, Nancy, John, and Aleigha. "However, what we
hope to convey is that we've got this! While the context is
different, the principles behind clarity, planning, high-yield
strategies and interventions, student learning, and assessment hold
steady." This is where The Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and
Blended Learning will prove indispensable on this next leg of our
journey.
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