Silver Lining for Learning: Episode 1.
Silver lining for learning is a weekly conversation with Professor Yong Zhao and other education experts about the future of education.
The "dark cloud" of the coronavirus crisis continues to cause havoc worldwide and seems a generation-defining event. In education, this crisis has forced schools and universities to close, pushing often unprepared institutions to move teaching and learning online. The already stressed educational ecosystem now faces unprecedented difficulties that will fall disproportionately on students of low socioeconomic status and marginalized groups. This situation continues to worsen and is expected to persist for months or even years before normalcy occurs. This disruption, however, provides us with an opportunity to reimagine learning and teaching so as to create an equitable and humanistic learning ecosystem for all.
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A position paper by Microsoft Education in collaboration Michael Fullan, Joanne Quinn, Max Drummy & Mag Gardner. Written in response to the current disruption to schooling, the paper articulates a framework for thinking about a move from remote to hybrid learning and a reimagined education. Many school leaders will be familiar with the Global Competencies for Deep Learners and the Deep Learning Framework. The authors have used this framework as a model for reimagining education post-COVID-19. The strategy is outlined in three phases.
Phase 1. Disruption – Shifting to remote learning and navigating the three zones of disruption: Unsettled, Learning and Growth
Phase 2. Transition to Reopening Schools – Manage the structures, processes and decisions needed to reopen schools
Phase 3. Reimagining Learning – Create an agile, innovative and future-focused hybrid deep learning system
Click here for the video presentation by Michael Fullan and Joanne Quinn