Kevin Kelly shares about how to create flexibility for students and ourselves on episode 406 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The importance of the prompt is to make sure that students who are learning in different modalities can adopt the right strategies in order to be successful in reaching the outcomes.

People are used to using tags as a way to filter information.
-Kevin Kelly

Creating a checklist in advance creates a lower cognitive load for you as an instructor to remember all of these different tasks.
-Kevin Kelly

We can give prompts where students can be successful learners no matter what modality they are in.
-Kevin Kelly

The importance of the prompt is to make sure that students who are learning in different modalities can adopt the right strategies in order to be successful in reaching the outcomes.
-Kevin Kelly

Resources

How to turn a Zoom chat into a useful summary
AAEEBL Meetup: How can students generate evidence of their learning in a remote world?
Flexible Course Run of Show Template
Startup & shutdown checklists
CSU Flexible Course Delivery
EDUCAUSE: 7 Things You Should Know About Google Jockeying
Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bordain: Preparation, practice, planning
Chat jockeys (volunteer in-person students who monitor the Zoom chat while you lecture)
LaGuardia Community College Student Technology Mentor Program
Google Docs
Lewis Carroll
Maya Angelou quarter
Hypothesis
Classroom Salon
eMargin
tiny.cc

How to create flexibility for students and ourselves

Teaching in Higher Ed