How to Boost Engagement During Remote Learning (Without Using Zoom)

I reached out to a handful of people on Twitter who had done distance learning for at least a couple of weeks already. Student engagement is one of the biggest challenges in distance learning. While I originally just asked for their best tip, I love that thoughts and guidance on how to increase student engagement was a part of each of their answers. In the episode, my guests are: Andrew Chiu | Hong Kong Middle-School Digital Design Teacher *just finished his 10th week of distance learning* CJ Reynolds | New Jersey High-School Literature & History of Hip Hop Teacher Mark Rogers | Texas 1st Grade Teacher Sam Kary | California 6th Grade Humanities Teacher They share the following: the simplify, simplify, simplify approach Andrew takes practical tips in communication, organization, and video conferencing from 10-weeks of trial and error how CJ hooks his students right at the beginning of the lesson how Mark keeps his 1st graders connected to one another without video conferencing how Sam structures engaging at-home projects that are differentiated and support students each step of the way RESOURCES MENTIONED Some of CJ's green screen lesson hook videos Hyperdocs resources that Sam referenced CONNECT WITH THESE EDUCATORS Andrew Chiu Twitter | @chew_ed CJ Reynolds Get his new book 'Teach Your Class Off' Hear a previous episode of the podcast CJ was on where he talked about how he uses social media in the classroom. YouTube | /realrapwiththereynolds Instagram | @realrapwithreynolds Facebook | /realrapwithreynolds Twitter | @realrapreynolds Mark Rogers Hear about the looping project Mark is doing with his students in a previous episode of the podcast Twitter | @rogersmarkd Sam Kary Check out one of the resources Sam created that I contributed to | Student-podcasting project for remote learning. Twitter | @newedtechclass Facebook | /newedtechclassroom YouTube | /newedtechclassroom Website | newedtechclassroom.com CONNECT WITH THOM Twitter | @gibsonedu YouTube |/gibsonedu Instagram | @gibsoneducation Website | thomgibson.com Email | [email protected] SUPPORT THE PODCAST Enroll in the How to Teach Kids About Money course for educators Sign up for the TeamEdu newsletter Leave a podcast rating & review