Catlin Tucker on Blended Learning
Oct 08, 2018•58 min•Ep. 20
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Episode description
Connect with Catlin Tucker
Twitter: @catlin_tucker | Website: catlintucker.com
Connect with Vrain Waves
Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb
Links & Show Notes
- Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom:
- Timesaving hack: Ctrl + Cmd + Shift + 4 = copy screenshot to clipboard instead of desktop
- The Box of Awesome
- Metaphorical Fashion - another great one from Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom - Design us a t-shirt!!
- Catlin Tucker - Power Up Blended Learning (06:52)
- Catlin’s definition of Blended learning: active, engaged learning in the classroom + active, engaged learning online; + more control over time, place, pace, and path of their learning experience; shift of control from teacher to student
- Catlin’s journey to blended learning (08:40)
- Fear of amount of time taken to move into blended learning (10:26)
- “Everybody is experimenting, taking risks, and learning [in a classroom].” (10:44)
- Students handling the extra work (13:17)
- More challenging to be a student in a student-centered classroom, but the decision-making / agency trade off pays off
- Assessment for learning (15:38)
- Grades as a carrot & carrots don’t work (+ our interview with Daniel Pink)
- Any assessment score can be reassessed in Catlin’s class
- Ongoing self-assessment station (18:04) & more info here
- Her latest book: Power Up Blended Learning
- 10 learning targets per unit (21:34)
- Station Rotations (22:49)
- Working with students during the day (26:18) instead of giving feedback at home at night
- Examples of stations (28:20)
- Hosting Online discussions (31:04)
- Bringing the momentum from online discussions back into the classroom (36:12)
- Schoology online discussions
- Backchannelchat as a replacement for Today’s Meet
- Four Corner Conversations routine (37:25)
- Shifting role of the teacher in the classroom (39:52)
- Students bring the meaning to the activities that she designs / then she is the coach
- Planning horizontally = turn your vertical agenda horizontal and break it into station rotations (41:43) (presentation, video)
- Tucker Time (46:33) = teacher-led station
- Power Up Blended Learning (47:35)
- Sustainable Infrastructure for Professional Learning
- Coaching / modeling / co-teaching / small Professional Learning Communities in buildings
- Catlin’s requests to leaders (55:40)
- Wrap Up (56:32)
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