Pedagogical Pantry

It is almost the middle of September already as some of us are several weeks into our courses and those on the quarter system are preparing to begin in a couple of weeks. In either case, I thought that I would share some teaching ideas that we may have heard about, and now consider adding to our skill set. In their special edition 2021 article entitled, "Pandemic Transformation of Teaching and Learning: Designing Pedagogy Using Your Pedagogical Pantry Rather than Established Recipes," Schley and Marchetti summarize online teaching methods.

In this article, the authors emphasize integrating functional technology that already exists, both to you and students. The goal of the paper was not to provide detailed technical steps, but to ask, "what experiences would we like to encourage or facilitate online, and what strategies do we have access to. The authors share examples:

• Short lecture recordings (from mobile phones embedded in Google Slides)

• Document cameras (create walk-throughs of content and processes)

• Interactive and Collaborative documents (hyperlinks to websites or spreadsheets for collecting responses; in-document text discussions)

• Interactive Presentations (Voicethread)

• Virtual Whiteboards (Google’s Jamboard, Miro, Lucidspark)

• Web and Document annotation (Hypothesis, Scribble)

• Project Management (Slack, Google Drive, Trello, Asana, Notion)

• Polling/Student Response Systems, Formative Assessment (Kahoot, Mentimeter, Poll Everywhere, GForms)

An appendix is provided which includes the website URLs mentioned in the paper.

References

Schley, S. & Marchetti, C. (2021). "Pandemic transformation of teaching and learning: Designing pedagogy using your pedagogical pantry rather than established recipes. Journal of Transformative Learning, 8 (1), 29-35.