Hello, you hard working educators, you! This week covers how to approach your planning through engaging tasks. You’ll read about both historical and contemporary models of engagement AND about the functions and tools for distance learning.
Read: Please read, Module 6: Engaging Tasks
Reflect: Post your response to the prompt below by Monday morning.
Prompt: As we teach from a distance, we all are starting to figure out what is helping kids engage with both us and the curriculum more and more each day. Taking into consideration the Design Tasks suggested by the authors, how have you engaged your students online? Choose 2 of the following principles to share with an example: An open task, an understanding task, an asking task and/or a problem solving task.
Interact: On Monday, read your colleagues' reflections and respond to at least one other post by sharing a comment, insight, or interesting possibility by next Thursday.