FEATURE: REMOTE LEARNING
How to set up remote and distance learning I
n our major feature this month, we speak to Giancarlo Brotto, Education Insights Director at ed tech supplier SMART Technologies, who offers practical advice on setting up remote learning, and tips to help you teach in the most effective ways possible while separated from your students.
Even though classrooms sit empty in the UK’s 32,000 schools, learning is continuing. Teachers have been adapting lessons for distance learning; people who had never worked in this way before are slowly starting to become experts at remote collaboration and schools carry on keeping our communities together. Here we offer our advice
to anyone experimenting with remote teaching and look at considerations for using technology to deliver effective lessons at a distance.
Capabilities audit Many Education Technology solutions that were already being used in schools have capabilities for remote learning that weren’t explored before. Ideally, during contingency planning, or during continuous review of teaching arrangements, schools should consider these aspects of their existing tools: what technology do you normally use that could be reconfigured for remote
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