{"id":3701,"date":"2020-05-26T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:46:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T20:46:22","slug":"low-tech-and-no-tech-remote-learning-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/low-tech-and-no-tech-remote-learning-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Tech and No-Tech Remote Learning Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Forced to abruptly transition from face-to-face to remote instruction with limited support, veteran and novice teachers strived to implement online environments conducive to active student learning. There are many factors educators need to consider to meet the needs of their students thoughtfully. We can celebrate that technology assists us as we navigate these challenging times. But while there is a myriad of high-tech ways to engage students, our current situation highlights the impact of the digital divide.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pivot to remote instruction has revealed the inequity of learning at home compared to learning in a classroom. When planning face-to-face instruction, teachers typically provide students with choices for how and what they will learn, how the classroom looks and feels, and how they will demonstrate their knowledge. These options all represent pathways to differentiated instruction and are easier to control in the traditional classroom. (To learn more about differentiation, see <\/span>this blog post<\/span><\/a> written by Dr. Ruth Okoye.)<\/span><\/p>\n

To serve their students’ learning needs during remote instruction, teachers must be creative with differentiated solutions. When home, students may have limited internet connectivity, have to share devices with siblings and parents, or have no technology access at all. To provide equitable education, teachers must offer low-tech and no-tech remote learning opportunities. Choice boards are an excellent way to differentiate instruction both in class and remotely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Engage & Inspire: Choice Boards for Differentiation<\/span><\/a>, an OK2Ask\u00ae virtual workshop, focused on creating and using choice boards based on<\/span> Tomlinson’s<\/span><\/a> model for differentiation. Blended learning expert Catlin Tucker provides an overview of choice boards and offline activities in her post, <\/span>\u00a0Offline Choice Boards: How Are You Integrating Offline Learning into Your Online Class?<\/span><\/a> Listed below are low-tech and no-tech strategies to differentiate the content, process, and product for students during remote instruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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