BRIDGE Webinar Series: Responses and Approaches to COVID-19

Agenda item Chat summary

• Teachers have been the innovators!
Impact of COVID on
• Teachers are being agents for change.
Education
• Completely agree - we have been thrown into it...and are managing on a period by period.
Suggested platforms:
Online Platform Web link Suggested use/comments
https://www.microsoft.com/en-
Microsoft Teams au/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/group-
chat-software
Microsoft form https://forms.office.com/ Useful tool for assessment
Useful tool for assessment and tracking student progress
and provide feedback on work
Work can be photographed or scanned and uploaded
OneNote https://www.onenote.com/
Online pedagogies Students are able to record audio: good for those with
low literacy or for tasks that require oral presentation (eg
language learning)
Immersive reader https://www.onenote.com/learningtools Microsoft learning tool.
There is also the ability to click "originality reports" on
Google Classroom. This will check the students written
Google Classroom https://classroom.google.com/ work to ensure it is not copied.
Create tasks for students to do within limited time/due
dates.
Google forms https://www.google.com.au/forms/about/ Useful tool for assessment
Trello https://trello.com/
JacPlus https://www.jacplus.com.au/
LearnON https://www.jacaranda.com.au/learnon/
AssessON https://www.jacaranda.com.au/assesson/ General student-teacher conversation
QB learning
Quizziz https://quizizz.com/ Useful tool for assessment
Success doing online tests in Laos - can use on mobile
Quizlet https://quizlet.com/
phone and computer - you can create in many languages
Assessprep https://about.assessprep.com/ Useful tool for assessment
For language, I see some junior school using Padlet to
Padlet https://padlet.com/
submit recording for oral
Class Dojo https://www.classdojo.com/ Used for Kindergarten in India
Education Perfect https://epforlearning.com/ Assign tasks and assessments
SurveyMonkey https://www.surveymonkey.com/ Designing a timed test for student responses
Digital portfolio tool. Students can submit works as a
Seesaw https://web.seesaw.me/ photo, artwork, voice recordings etc.
Sharing assessment
Compass https://www.compass.education/ Sharing assessment
SHub Classroom https://shub.edu.vn/ Used in Vietnam (mostly multiple-choice questions)
As the students might not be familiar with the technology,
then we started teaching our students via WhatsApp and
then step by step we lead them to the interactive meeting
WhatsApp https://www.whatsapp.com/ using other apps like zoom, WebEx. We did the test by
limiting the time for exam that is the trick we can do to
limit the chance for them to send other's work (Azizah
Batubara, Indonesia).
Flipgrid https://info.flipgrid.com/ Used to give voice to the students
Zoom https://zoom.us/
Distribute digital resources, links and PDF files for kids to
Telegram https://telegram.org/
print at home
MCQ quiz Useful for assessment
 Moodle https://moodle.org/ Creating your online learning site
Pobble 365 https://www.pobble365.com/
https://www.resolve.edu.au/teaching-
reSolve
resources
ABC Education https://education.abc.net.au/home

Research and examples:

Research on the impact on teaching learning in this time https://insightsfor.education/
https://www.khanacademy.org/
‘Flipped Learning’
https://ed.ted.com/

Additional comments:
• Some good combinations of digital and analog learning have been happening.
• Child safety/privacy was raised in our breakout.
• Training also a big point of discussion.
• Our independent school in Victoria with 1950 student population only 2% students at school all undertaking remote
learning (Ann-Marie Iversen, Australia)
• In Cambodia – we are doing some videos posting in TV and cable TV
• In Malaysia – we do have programme not just for the students but also for the teachers.
• In Brunei – for kids who have poor access to online learning - we have Home Learning Package (HPL) too - once a week
parent picks up the HPL from school and return the written exercise a week later
• Sending hard copies too for reasons of access and equity and to make it easier for some parents/ families
• In Brunei – MOE initiates donation drive for public to donate unused computer, tablets to be redistributed to students
who does not have the tools. Whole nation approach also Joint effort with other ministry and commercial companies
and NGO - donate laptop /tablets - which have been distributed to identified students
• Challenges:
o Equitable access to technology continues to be an enormous roadblock to learning.
o All the platforms available are good to use during this COVID period, but the problem is with the ability of the
students and parents to buy internet data which are a bit costly at this time being....some parents have no job ,
they earn no money and this is the main reason for them having no ability to buy internet data....
o Afraid that during assessment students copied others.
 Key points:
• Teachers must remember to take care of themselves first otherwise you can't help your students. Select what works
best for you and your students - if you feel comfortable ..they feel secure.
• Anxiety is definitely higher in the workplace at the moment
• Students have been very supportive during these trying times. It actually acts as a morale booster when we know
parents and students are appreciative of our work. It has been a learning phase for both teachers and students alike.
Teacher welfare
• Trusting teachers, trusting students that we are all doing our best.
• Equitable access to technology continues to be an enormous roadblock to learning
• In today’s world, it is crucial to learn and keep ourselves updated.
• Hard to know what students are doing - even harder to know what other teachers are doing. this is a big issue - the
welfare of students when home is not safe.
Check out some lovely messages on Twitter for #TeacherAppreciationWeek

• Time to clarify what works - what do you miss and what do we take into the future
Road map for success • Despites of all basic issues such as internet connection, assessment, trust etc, I think we have to discuss about learning
scenario or plot of the online learning, because it is important to make sure that online learning were still effective.

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