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Tips for the Virtual Shift of F2F Math Classes
By Fred FeldonCo-Chair, Department of Mathematics
March 25, 2020
Maintain Instructional Continuity
Your #1 priority: “Keeping your class on schedule during disruptive times for reasons such as inclement weather, widespread illness, family emergencies, or other unexpected events.”
Retrieved from Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA https://foothill.edu/onlinelearning/instructional-continuity.html
Maintain Enrollment
Your #2 priority: Help students remain active and enrolled despite interruptions caused by COVID-19. Offer as much flexibility and as many options as possible. There’s no one answer, no one solution.
Deliver Content
Your #3 priority: Provide resources. But limit your time and energy creating content. Instructional material does NOT have to be created by you. Spend more time engaging, helping and inspiring students to learn how to learn.
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Content Is Everywhere!
Learning results from what the student does and thinks… Our job is to create the conditions that prompt students to do the work of learning.”
-- Herbert Alexander Simon, 1916-2001
Regular and Effective Contact
Your #4 priority: Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Even if you don’t have a plan in place yet. Reach out to your students and your colleagues. You’re not alone.
Message from the DoE
“As of March 20, 2020, we are permitting accreditors with suspended on-site classes due to COVID-19 to waive additional Title IV and HEA distance education requirements… In other words, instructors could use email and chat features to provide instructional material and communicate, set up conference calls, group conversations, email exchanges or have students submit work electronically that the instructor will evaluate.”
Retrieved from U.S. Department of Education, Office of Federal Student Aid at https://ifap.ed.gov/electronic-announcements/030520Guidance4interruptionsrelated2CoronavirusCOVID19
A Few Tips
• Use a Tablet
Dell Latitude
Microsoft Surface
Lenova X1
iPad with Zoom App
A Few Tips (Cont’d)
• Or a document camera
A Few Tips (Cont’d)
• Students show work using their CMS or mobile scanning apps
Professors use SnagIt to capture Embed HTML code then paste into the body of a Discussion Board message:
Include the Affective Domain
KnowledgeComprehensionApplication
FeelingsEmotionsAttitudeBehavior
Manual orPhysical Skills
fNIRS Significant Couplings at 5 sec shift (FDR q < 0.01)Ref https://www.nature.com/articles/srep43293
Share Stories
“When a person listens to or relates to another person the listener’s brain changes to mirror the other person’s brain. It’s called neural coupling. When you show empathy students feel trusted and valued. They engage at a higher level… They’ll work their asses off to not disappoint you!”
Michelle Pacansky-Brock, August 23, 2019 https:// brocansky.com/2019/08/rigor-through-empathy.html
Include Non-Routine Questions
“Avoid the bulimic* method of education…”*Overeating, followed by vomiting -- Dr. Stuart Firestein, 2013, https://www.ted.com/talks/ stuart_firestein_the_pursuit_of_ignorance#t-876778
Sources for Non-Routine Problems That Stimulate Discussion BooksMath Contests Grades 4-6, 7-8 and Algebra, by Conrad & Flegler, Math League PressMath Contests High School, by Conrad & Flegler, Math League PressCan You Solve My Problems? By Alex Bellos Math Puzzles Vol. 1, 2 and 3 by Presh TalwalkarPrinciples to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All, NCTMThe Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions, by Martin GardnerWhat Students Abroad Are Expected To Know About Mathematics: Exams from France, Germany and JapanEmpowering Students by Promoting Active Learning in Mathematics, NCTMChallenging Math Problems, by Terry Stickels Websiteshttp://mathforum.org/problems_puzzles_landing.html http://blog.mrmeyer.comhttp://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/resources/potw.php http://donsteward.blogspot.co.ukhttp://www.mathleague.com https://ed.ted.com http://www.onetwoinfinity.cahttps://www.mathcounts.org/resources/problem-of-the-weekhttps://www.math.purdue.edu/pow https://mindyourdecisions.comhttp://orion.math.iastate.edu/ehjohnst/PoW/PoW.htmlhttp://www.numberphile.com http://www.openmiddle.comhttp://www.sixtysymbols.com http://www.estimation180.comhttp://mathmistakes.org https://twitter.com/ExploreMTBoS (Math Twitter Blogosphere)http://www.sciencealert.com https://twitter.com/MathVaulthttp://www.iflscience.com http://wodb.ca (Which One Doesn’t Belong)http://www.ted.com http://www.visualpatterns.orghttp://www.smartereveryday.com http://mathquest.carroll.edu/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg (Mathologer) JournalsJournal for Research in Mathematics Education, NCTMMathematics Teacher, Monthly Calendar Problems, NCTMMathematics Teaching in the Middle School, Monthly Palette of Problems, NCTM
By Fred FeldonCoastline Collegehttps://bit.ly/2PiEKbk
Advantages of Synchronous Activities
Your course might contain amazing instructional material. It’s not enough!
“Aaarrggh… I feel like
I’m teaching myself!”
Advantages of Synchronous Activities
Synchronous times for students getting together can replace face-to-face classes, with students required to attend. They might push back in the beginning, but then they end up enjoying it.
Use ZOOM
https://www.conferzoom.org/It’s
Free!
Gallery View
I scheduled a webinar but:• No one had any questions• No one showed up• No one could agree on time/day• They didn’t use their webcam• Too many students had tech problems• They came late/left early• All I did was lecture; there was no interaction• I don’t know what hardware/software to use• I don’t know how to break students into groups• I don’t know how to write mathematical
notation online
Up-Front Preparation:
Divide the webinar into thirds• First third (10-15 min): Any questions,
comments or concerns? An ice-breaker (What city are you in? What’s the best thing that happened to you this week? Who or what is your support system if you have trouble with the Homework or Quizzes? What’s the worst/best experience you’ve had with math?)
• Affective Domain topic
Have students download the ZOOM Application (vs open in browser)
More at https://bit.ly/2QmHbWl
25 Affective Domain “Quick” Discussion Prompts!
https://tinyurl.com/u3e9lcl
Up-Front Preparation (Cont’d):• Second third (30-40 min): Interactively present and solve
problems from topics you KNOW students struggle with!• Take attendance by asking a question to which everyone must
reply to in the Chat Box. Do that a few times.• Use fun and collaborative strategies such as Kahoot, Two
Truths and a Lie, Breakout Groups, Polling, Professor Leaves the Room then returns and calls on a student at random, just as you do in the classroom.
• Ask questions, have students type answers in the Chat Box but wait for your signal to hit Enter.
Up-Front Preparation (Cont’d):• Second third (30-40 min): Interactively present and solve
problems from topics you KNOW students struggle with!• Take attendance by asking a question to which everyone must
reply to in the Chat Box. Do that a few times.• Use fun and collaborative strategies such as Kahoot, Two
Truths and a Lie, Breakout Groups, Polling, Professor Leaves the Room then returns and calls on a student at random, just as you do in the classroom.
• Ask questions, have students type answers in the Chat Box but wait for your signal to hit Enter.
Up-Front Preparation (Cont’d):• In Gallery View you can see everyone: thumbs up if you
understand, thumbs down if you don’t• Post a discussion prompt: everyone must respond in the Chat
file for attendance taking• Students can also type a response in the Chat box but wait for
your signal to hit Enter so they don’t copy• Think, pair (in Breakout Groups), then
share-out with everyone• Students use Sharpie pens to write down
their work then hold it up to the webcamfor everyone to see
Up-Front Preparation (Cont’d):• Last third (5 min): Any questions?• Closing remarks• Highlight, summarize, motivate, encourage,
inspire!• Offer to stay behind for one-on-one time (you
may continue, pause, or stop recording)• Post URL link to the recording w captions & chat
text file
Webinars should
average about 80%
attendance
Students who miss watch the recording + post a summary of what was discussed with comments and feedback.
Sample College Algebra Weekly Webinar – Spring 2020
https://tinyurl.com/s9am3x6
Kwik & EZ – Make Videos With Your
Cell Phone!
• Use mobile video editing apps such as BigVu or Clips
• Students log in during class time• Asynchronous discussion follow up• More ideas and advice on Twitter at
#CCCLearn and #KeepTeaching
Spring 2019 semester without webinars 23.5% success
Fall 2019 semester with required weekly webinars 68% success!
College Algebra Weekly Webinars and
The Bottom Line
