Useful Research/Links
SOME RESOURCES THAT MAY BE HELPFUL TO YOUR PRACTICE:
If you need assistance in identifying specific digital skills to integrate into your lessons...
The SDEI Skills Checklist can be a helpful tool when deciding to introduce digital skills or digital tools to specific sets of learners. The full checklist has been divided into sections to perhaps focus in on the type of learner and digital practices that learner is hoping to take on within the areas of life, learning and work.
Why students do not turn on their video cameras - Castelli -2021.pdfIf you need some more insights on learners and their turned-off video cameras during a remote session...
Here's a helpful research paper on why students may not be turning on their video cameras.
LBS learners have complex lives and we must be mindful that their privacy is paramount and having a camera turned off is not always indicative non-engagement.
This research paper may be helpful in seeing some additional perspectives on the issue.
If you are looking for some inspiration on honing problem solving skills while actively learning, our PAL working group found Harvard's Project Zero Thinking Routine Toolbox quite thought provoking...
The Project Zero toolbox defines a thinking routines as "a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking. PZ researchers designed thinking routines to deepen students’ thinking and to help make that thinking “visible.” Thinking routines help to reveal students’ thinking to the teacher and also help students themselves to notice and name particular “thinking moves,” making those moves more available and useful to them in other contexts."
VISIT THE SITE and modify and/or simplify some of the thinking routines for your purposes and to engage your LBS learners!
If breakout rooms frustrate you and your learners, Elan Paulson of Conestoga College has some awesome tips to engage your learners!
Breakout rooms can be boisterous spaces or silent torture. Explore some of these tips from Conestoga College's Faculty Learning Hub. There are a lot of gems here!
Check out this Conestoga College blog post:
If you are interested the concept of a strengths-based approach, the following two research pieces are helpful. Click on image or link below...
Mobile pedagogy for ELT - British Council.pdfIf you want to explore how pedagogy and digital integration align in the reality of 'mobile' learning spaces, this is a phenomenal read!
This English Language Teaching report from the British Council offers some instructive ways to integrate technology into the classroom for language learning. Learn how learners are using technology to enhance and transform their learning.
If you're really keen on the complexities of digital integration...
Check out the Technology Integration Matrix (TIM)—a very detailed , interactive technology integration tool.
If you wish to deep dive into a more complex and detailed take on digital integration, it is worth exploring this rich framework and resources developed by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) at the University of South Florida (USF).
Checklist-Ergonomics-Computer-Workstation-Self-Assessment - NIH.pdfIf you wish to help your learners self-assess their computer workstation, here is a handy checklist...
Many LBS learners may not realize the importance of a healthy computer workstation. This ergonomic resource can be something useful to share or speak to in order to ensure adults new to using computers understand how important it is to consider a number of actions to make their time at the computer less physically onerous.
20210305_Current Best Practices and Supportive Interventions for.pdfIf you work with learners who may have some learning difficulties, here are two wonderful resources that MTML created to address learning disabilities
These two resources were created by MTML to explore best practices for supporting learners with learning disabilities. The toolkit is for practitioners and the 'guide for finding learning success' can be used by learners to understand learning disabilities and to advocate for themselves.
FINDING OUR OWN WAYS ADULTS ANDiLEARNING DISABILITIES - MTML.pdf