Don’t Pivot, Swivel – Episode 2
(NotThePedogodzillaPodcast)
Mark’s second chat with Diane on the hop skip and jump to distance learning – once again he’s helpfully included a breakdown of the episode if you’d like to hop to a specific section. Really interesting chat, and a great primer for educators finding themselves lost at sea in these strange times.
Mike
0:35 Mark and Di introduce episode 2 briefly covering the four things they’ll discuss this time. These are:
- Inclusivity and accessibility in the
connectivity sense
- Inclusivity and accessibility in the ability/disability
sense
- Tips for supporting collaborative learning
online
- Health and wellbeing in moving online
- Health and wellbeing in dealing with lockdown
2:20 Inclusivity online. Mark talks about how the patterns
and disadvantage change within an online environment. Mark talks about the
issues with some things you can do to make your teaching more accessible. And
it all comes down to how you design your assessments anyway. Also, Mark does
his “one more thing” again.
12:00 Collaborative learning – some dos and don’ts. Well
mainly dos. This is Mark’s specialism, so we had to cut a lot of this out
because he goes on a lot about it. Mainly plugging his books.
17:45 Health and wellbeing in moving online – Mark talks
about how it’s important to switch off. The key message is figure out what
needs to be done synchronously, what can be done asynchronously and don’t feel
pressurised to do one when you are better off doing the other. Mark
accidentally lets slip that he often wanders off for a walk when he should be
working. Di identifies the problem with flipped learning and also how to fix
it.
27:30 Staying healthy during lockdown and outro – taking the
current situation into account when we are teaching and being compassionate
with our students. Di thanks Mark for his time.