Due to the emergency measures taken at schools and colleges across the country, faculty and teachers are suddenly faced with taking their courses to a remote synchronous or online format. This is particularly difficult for math and science teachers who have hands-on activities, graphs, equations, and much handwritten work from students to collect.
Remote teaching: How to Move your Math or Science Course Online
1. AlmyEducationPresents
Remote Teaching: How to Move
Your Math or Science Class
Online
Dr. Maria Andersen
CEO, Coursetune
Adjunct Faculty, Westminster College
@busynessgirl, busynessgirl@gmail.com
2. Agenda
• Instruction and interaction on moving class online (75 min)
• Q&A (15 minutes)
• Post questions as we go in the Q&A Feature or the chat.
• Next steps
• Free giveaway
Recording and slides later today.
4. AlmyEducationPresents
Remote Teaching: How to Move
Your Math or Science Class
Online
Dr. Maria Andersen
CEO, Coursetune
Adjunct Faculty, Westminster College
@busynessgirl, busynessgirl@gmail.com
5. Dr. Maria Andersen
• Has taught math and science since
1998 at the college level
• Has taught math and other subjects
online for 13 years
• Over 100 workshops and presentations
about how to teach math and science
online
• Teaches remotely all the time
• Adjunct, Westminster College
• CEO, Coursetune
6. The glass is half-empty because
you drank the first half already.
The glass is half-full because this
is an opportunity to learn and try
something new and for once your
administration and/or colleagues
won’t tell you no!
7. REMOTE
is not
ONLINE
REMOTE CLASSES
Mostly synchronous
Meets at scheduled times
Primarily utilizes virtual
meetings
Can be used anytime
ONLINE CLASSES
Mostly asynchronous
Rarely meets at
scheduled times
Primarily utilizes an LMS
(Canvas, Brightspace,
Moodle, Blackboard)
Requires careful
curriculum and
instructional design
8. Remote Teaching Should Be in Your Teaching Toolbelt
• When a student is ill
• When I am ill
• When a student is away
for a sports event
• When bad weather
keeps me or them from
getting to class
• When I am out of town
at a business meeting or
conference
9. Move to new types of Assessment:
Assessment is more than Tests
11. Remote
Teaching is
Similar to F2F
Teaching
You can see your students and they can see you
You can have discussions
You can "write on the board"
Students can work in small groups
You can use active learning techniques
14. Virtual
Meeting
Rooms -
Preparation
• Make sure you know how video and
audio mute work
• Make sure you know how to share
your browser or desktop
• Make sure you know how to stop
sharing your browser or desktop
• Find where the chat window is –
private chat vs public chat
• Clean up your desktop, browser tabs,
and bookmark folders
• Try features like “Raising Hands” or
answering “Yes/No” questions from
the teacher and student side
15. Practice
sending a chat
message
Send a private chat to me:
What school do you teach for?
Then send a public chat to all:
What is the strangest thing
you’ve seen this week?
16. Virtual
Meeting
Rooms -
Logistics
Record
Set meeting to auto-record
(because you’ll forget)
Mute Set students for “Mute on
Entry” (to minimize noise)
Waiting
Set for waiting room or enter
before host
Notes
Keep a paper class list by your
computer to take notes
Scene Check the scene behind you
17. Virtual
Meeting
Rooms –
First Session
• Setting expectations for all your
sessions
• Suggest (but don’t demand) students
be on video
• Set policies around getting full
attention – “Stretch and watch”
• Practice “Raising Hands” with the
students (if that is an option)
• Practice having students unmute to
answer a question. Goal: Everyone
tries by the end of the session.
18. The chat panel has
pedagogical
superpowers ... if you
know how to use it.
19. 3-2-1-Go
Method
Fine print: This is slightly crazy to do in a room of 250+
people, but I’m doing this to demonstrate how it works
in a room with 20-40 students.
20. What is the slope
of this line?
A) 0.25
B) 2.5
C) 0.5
D) 5.0
3-2-1-GO
TYPE YOUR ANSWER IN THE CHAT
WINDOW BUT DO NOT PRESS ENTER
UNTIL I TELL YOU TO.
PRACTICE #1
21. What is the slope
of this line?
A)
B) 2.5
C)
D)
SOLUTION #1
23. Where does the
slope go from
increasing to
decreasing?
3-2-1-GO
TYPE YOUR ANSWER BUT DO NOT
PRESS ENTER UNTIL I TELL YOU TO.
PRACTICE #2
24. Where does the
slope go from
increasing to
decreasing?
The slope does go from positive to
negative at about 0.2, but that’s not
what you were asked.
FOLLOW UP #2
25. Where does the
slope go from
increasing to
decreasing?
3-2-1-GO
TYPE YOUR ANSWER BUT DO NOT
PRESS ENTER UNTIL I TELL YOU TO.
TRY AGAIN #2
26. Where does the
slope go from
increasing to
decreasing?
It doesn’t.
The slope is decreasing where the graph
is concave down and increasing where
the graph is concave up. It goes from
decreasing to increasing, not the other
way.
SOLUTION #2
27. What makes the
3-2-1-GO chat
pedagogically
better than asking
the class in a F2F
discussion?
Answer in the chat window.
3-2-1-GO
TYPE YOUR ANSWER BUT DO NOT
PRESS ENTER UNTIL I TELL YOU TO.
THE REALIZATION ...
29. What is Think-Pair-Share (TPS)?
THINK – Pose a question or
problem for students to think
about, jot down notes about, or
solve on their own for 1-3 minutes.
PAIR – Place students in small
groups or pairs to discuss the
similarities and differences in their
answers and reach a consensus.
SHARE – Ask selected groups or
pairs to share with the class.
31. Students can work together, you can move between
groups, and students can ask for help
32. THINK:
List 10 properties of
ANOTHER OPTION: SYNCHRONOUS DOCUMENTS
Jot down your own thoughts.
You have 1 minute.
33. PAIR:
List 10 properties of
ANOTHER OPTION FOR TPS: SYNCHRONOUS DOCUMENTS
Go to the designated Google Doc and
work with your group to make a
consolidated list with more detail.
See Chat Window for Links:
Last names A-E
Last names F-J
Last names K-O
Last names P-S
Last names T-Z
34. SHARE:
List 10 properties of
ANOTHER OPTION FOR TPS: SYNCHRONOUS DOCUMENTS
You can display the Google
Docs and discuss the answers.
Domain
Range
Type of Function
Initial value or y-intercept
No x-intercepts
Horizontal asymptote
Rate of growth
Growth factor
Concavity
Graph is always positive
36. TPS with Synchronous
Whiteboarding Tools
• These are going to be
harder to set up
because they will likely
require every student to
have a login
• There are many kinds
• Depends on what you
have access to
(OneNote is an option)
• Battle of the Free Digital
Whiteboarding Tools
https://busynessgirl.co
m/battle-of-the-free-
digital-whiteboarding-
tools/
37. You can write “on the
board” in real time
I tried a LOT of options. USB tablets, PC
tablets, iPads, synchronous smartphone
apps.
The simplest solution is to make a $99
investment in an IPEVO Ultra High
Definition USB Document Camera.
https://amzn.to/2U1VbbA
LET ME DEMONSTRATE
38. With a
Document
Camera
You can show problems in a book
Walk through completing a worksheet
Share handwritten solutions
Demonstrate experiments
Use math manipulatives
39. Science Labs
with Doc
Cameras
You are the lab partner of your students.
Pause experiments at different steps to do
MC or 3-2-1-GO questions.
Students should tell you next steps (be willing
to do small things wrong).
Students have to answer questions about
WHY before you proceed.
As a group you collect the data. Individually
they submit writeups.
You could provide multiple data sets.
41. Logistics for a
Doc Camera
or One Note 1. SHARE YOUR FULL
SCREEN
2. GO TO THE DOC CAMERA
APP OR ONENOTE AND
MAKE IT FULL SCREEN
42. How will students share
handwritten work in
discussions?
• They will talk about what they
wrote (isn’t that a win?)
• They can hold a paper up to the
camera to show classmates their
work or a diagram
• They can share a link to a
Desmos Graph
43. Share a Link to a Desmos Graph
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/0tzl0dmu01
Students can share
• Data sets
• Written comments
• Functions
• Graphs
• Labels on graphs
45. Desmos Classroom Activities
https://teacher.desmos.com/
Students participate
in activity
You can monitor the
data coming in
You can pause the
students to get their
attention back
Groups are
automatically
assigned
Can use
asynchronously if
you are careful to
pick activities with
no group work or
group share
You can write your
own
49. LMS tools for facilitating
“what you do in the classroom”
• Discussion Forums
• Peer Review
Assignments
• Online Homework
GET HELP FROM
AN EXPERT OR
THE PEDAGOGY
AND EXECUTION
WILL BE POOR
51. Students need a way to
turn in work just like
they would in class.
Many apps turn your
phone into a scanner
and convert photos to
PDFs.
52. Students will need to
have a low-stakes
practice run (or two)
Uploading Docs Using the CamScanner App
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KQ-ySs03Wo&t=22s
53. Proctoring
Strategies
Time-boxed: From download to
submission is a set time.
Consider open notebook assessments
(anything they can write down will be
allowed)
Remember students might not be able
to print (they will have to see their
screen)
Students handwrite and sign a short
academic integrity statement at the
beginning of their exam.
56. Assessment
Transformation
GOOGLEABLE
Find the equation of the
line between (0,6) and
(3,18).
NOT SO GOOGLEABLE
At the beginning of
2015, Spotify Premium
had 68 million Monthly
Active Users (MAUs). At
the beginning of 2018,
Spotify Premium had
168 million MAUs. The
growth of Spotify
Premium MAUs appears
to be linear. Let t be the
number of years since
2015. Find an equation
for the line between
these two data points.
57. Assessment
Transformation
GOOGLEABLE
Solve the problem ...
NOT SO GOOGLEABLE
The solution to the
above problem is ...
Option 1: Now explain
how to another student
how you can solve it.
Option 2: Show two
ways to solve the
problem.
60. Alternative Assessments
• Create a model and make
predictions with real-world
graphs and data
• Do a teaching demo for a topic
• Sort and compare activities
• Write test questions
• Meaningful Online Discussions
• Dive into the science of the
news!
Give the students some agency
in choosing the topic or format.
Provide a clear rubric for
grading.
64. Online Lectures
A full set of class lectures and
lecture materials for a 3-credit
class: prepared, recorded with
proper descriptions for the
blind, edited, annotated,
captioned, and produced takes
approximately 500 hours.
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=5CD3lf6uMcY&feature=y
outu.be (not properly
captioned yet)
65. Use an already
recorded set of
videos from a
Math Instructor
PatrickJMT
http://patrickjmt.com/
MathTV
http://mathtv.com/
Mathispower4u
http://www.mathispower4u.com/
Contemporary Algebra Collection
http://bit.ly/CAC-Form
66. Recording
Short Videos
Drop any expectations that you’re going to somehow
record all your lectures.
Record short help videos where needed.
Sound is very important
It’s easier to cut than to splice
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68. Next Steps: Live, full-day
workshops
Maria will be offering a deep dive into all of these topics in online Workshops.
Dates: Saturday April 18 or Saturday May 16
One-hour sessions with 30-minute breaks in between beginning at 10 am Central
69. Designing and Implementing an
Effective Online Math Class
• Moving Your Math or Science Course Online
• Best Practices for Videos and Screencasting
• Facilitating Online Discussions and Synchronous Sessions in Math and Science
• Assessment Strategy and Security for Math or Science Courses
• Being a Good Online Coach
Individual price for full day: $199
https://courses.almyeducation.com/designing-and-implementing-an-effective-online-math-class
Get on the waitlist today. You’ll be notified when registration opens.
70. Want more sooner?
Online workshops and webinars can be created customized for the tools available at
your college or school and your audience
Sending out a survey for where you want deeper dives, low cost webinar options for
individuals and institutions
There are good reasons you already wanted to know how to teach remotely.
You probably already needed a way to bring students into class when they are away for sports events, at home because a car is broken down, ill and trying to keep others from getting sick, suffering from anxiety etc. Now is the time to finally take the time to learn to support all those students that miss classes when you are teaching F2F.
When was the last time you really thought deeply about assessment strategy. Many of you are worried about proctored tests. Does EVERYTHING need to be tested? We live in a world where computing technology and Smartphones has completely transformed the availability of information. Do you REALLY need to test EVERYTHING the same way?
Probably some of this was already on your list to think about, but we’re all so damned busy. You know as well as I do that we only get to the changes that we HAVE to do. Now is the time! You’re going to do it!
Guess what, many weren’t paying attention already.
Notes: It’s difficult to keep your own digital notes during a virtual session
These tools require additional training. We use them a lot in online classes, but don’t dive in unless you’ve learned some pedagogy.
You should already be doing this!
We live in a time when there is more information accessible at our fingertips than ever before.