{"id":171,"date":"2022-01-18T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T07:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/?p=171"},"modified":"2022-01-25T02:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T02:26:59","slug":"learntohun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"how i learned to \u6df7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u5404\u4f4d\u670b\u53cb\u5404\u4f4d\u540c\u4ec1\u597d<\/p>\n<p>\u6211\u662f\u97f3\u6a02\u5b78\u6240\u7684\u65bd\u6c38\u5fb7\uff0c\u60a8\u53ef\u4ee5\u53eb\u6211\u963f\u5fb7<\/p>\n<p>\u4eca\u5929\u8981\u8a0e\u8ad6\u7684\u662f<\/p>\n<p>how i learned to \u6df7<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/04b4C5Jps3g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that I only began seriously to do hybrid learning because of a situation out of my control: in february 2020, with the pandemic raging in the united states, the berklee college of music, where I was teaching previously, went completely remote. suddenly, I had to think about students living in several different time zones<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>it took more than just making recordings of lectures<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-173\" src=\"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1111-alarm-clock-dreams-pink-favim-com-243186-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"11: 11: some my students couldn't participate in asynchronous remote classes without living on vampire time\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1111-alarm-clock-dreams-pink-favim-com-243186-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1111-alarm-clock-dreams-pink-favim-com-243186.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">11: 11: some my students couldn&#8217;t participate in our synchronous remote classes without living like vampires<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>some students could join us in synchronous meetings, but many couldn&#8217;t without living on vampire time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>suddenly, all of us teaching from our cramped houses with sometimes unstable internet&#8211;not to mention furry friends, spouses, and kids underfoot&#8211;had to learn to \u6df7 and in a hurry!<\/p>\n<p>i was like<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/25QbQfG72lqiXD2Dpm\" width=\"480\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/reaction-25QbQfG72lqiXD2Dpm\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>as i suppose most of us were<\/p>\n<p>but how i learned to \u6df7 had much to do with questions i had about teaching already. for example, i had interests in universal design for learning (UDL) and goals to change my course sites and teaching plans in relationship with learning design principles from UDL<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ih0QVKjYvG4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OK&#8211;now a quick question for y&#8217;all before I move on<\/p>\n<p>(1) how might hybrid learning \/ teaching serve in the practice of universal design?<\/p>\n<p>(if i could do this as a lesson page there&#8217;d be a quiz here now!)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mw5tVhF3SE8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>chunking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>when i began to \u6df7 i did some research by taking a couple courses in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/\">coursera<\/a>,\u00a0a popular asynchronous MOOC site<\/p>\n<p>but i learned something about interminable video lectures&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>i discovered that YIKES! i could not make it through even 20 minute videos without losing interest. for me, at least, there was a problem of remaining engaged<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/DUtXiSmUlhGImw7dMw\/video\" width=\"480\" height=\"307\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so i had to think about the pieces in which i would present lecture like material and also consider how students could do the kinds of work i might normally do in the classroom (or in synchronous format, like small group discussions in breakout rooms)<\/p>\n<p>i wish that i could show you the results of what i did on the berklee OL site, berklee&#8217;s equivalent of NTU COOL&#8211;but i no longer have access to that material<\/p>\n<p>what i can say is that for the asynchronous version of classes, i had to break down what i might normally do in a thirty minute lecture into five to seven minute pieces, followed by quizzes. because the &#8220;lesson&#8221; function in OL allowed me to link pages with quizzes, i could intersperse short sections where i gave a lecture with powerpoint slides and quizzes (with multiple choice or short answer questions). i could also ask students to look at and comment on images or texts in relationship to the lecture material or their readings for the week<\/p>\n<p><strong>maintaining connection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>the broken up format worked well. but it still was a bit lacking when it came to engagement with the students. for this to work asynchronously, i asked students to submit either writing or short videos on the course site&#8217;s discussion board&#8211;but also asked that they comment on and discuss each other&#8217;s work in a second round<\/p>\n<p>INITIAL THOUGHTS \/ QUESTIONS&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IN CLASS&#8221; DISCUSSION&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>COMMENTS ON EACH OTHER&#8217;S WORK<\/p>\n<p>letting the students post videos and images in their virtual discussions and commentary made this section more fun and a bit more &#8220;social media&#8221; ish<\/p>\n<p>still&#8211;the attrition rate for classes during the pandemic was, and remains, quite high. as much as we love FB, Insta, Snapchat, and so forth, face-to-face relations or the possibility of them still ground our engagements to community. i had (still have) to think more about engagement<\/p>\n<p><strong>maintaining engagement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i found that this kind of engagement was often not enough, however<\/p>\n<p>so to create more community, i tried to group students by adjacent time zones and then find times where we could meet together every two or three weeks for a check in<\/p>\n<p><em>this meant that i had to spend more time on teaching than usual. oh well, maybe that&#8217;s like extra office hours<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/YVvTCqTBglkOs\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/new-girl-YVvTCqTBglkOs\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>what was it that i said about engagement?<\/p>\n<p><strong>modalities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>what worked?<\/p>\n<p>in the hybrid environment, it was possible to create a media-rich environment, in which i could combine texts, video, images, and recordings. i could also ask students to contribute to the course site in different modalities as well. this is something i&#8217;d like to keep doing even as i teach in &#8220;real space&#8221; now<\/p>\n<p>but there are some problems we should think about<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0T-o2mtg6nE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>for me, the big takeaways are that one cannot just record lectures and think that will be enough. asynchronous learning, in particular, requires careful design of manageable &#8220;chunks&#8221; of material employing different modalities for student interaction and response<\/p>\n<p>and this kind of design takes time! in the synchronous \/ asynchronous hybrid situation, i had to spend much more time on creating the material for asynchronous classes; and, even when i had the material in place, working with the asynchronous students meant that my office hours were much longer and sometimes at odd times of the day or night<\/p>\n<p>and truth be told, we aren&#8217;t MOOC experts. we need to have a sense of honesty about how much we can&#8211;and should&#8211;do. no one signed up for remote learning; it was thrust upon us by the pandemic<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-180\" src=\"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/freediashot-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"we had hybridity thrust upon us: big freedia fights against the 'rona in her bounce video rona rona\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/freediashot-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/freediashot.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">we had hybridity thrust upon us: big freedia fights against the &#8216;rona in her bounce video rona rona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>still, i think that my experience did let me expand my teaching into new modalities that i&#8217;d like to keep in place. hybrid learning<\/p>\n<p>created more flexibility and access for my students<\/p>\n<p>moved me closer to my goals of implementing UDL in my classes<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;and it was sometimes fun<\/p>\n<p>NOW LET&#8217;S GO \u6df7\uff01<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/AElE6YH5nLO4SeJtnf\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/paulmccartney-paul-mccartney-egypt-station-AElE6YH5nLO4SeJtnf\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5404\u4f4d\u670b\u53cb\u5404\u4f4d\u540c\u4ec1\u597d \u6211\u662f\u97f3\u6a02\u5b78\u6240\u7684\u65bd\u6c38\u5fb7\uff0c\u60a8\u53ef\u4ee5\u53eb\u6211\u963f\u5fb7 \u4eca\u5929\u8981\u8a0e\u8ad6\u7684\u662f how i learned to \u6df7 It turns out that I only began seriously to do hybrid learning because of a situation out of my control: in february 2020, with the pandemic raging in the united states, the berklee college of music, where I was teaching previously, went completely remote. suddenly, I had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/?p=171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;how i learned to \u6df7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[99,100,98,101],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-covidtide-teaching","tag-hybrid-classrooms","tag-teaching","tag-udl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}