# @edutopia on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CLhUPLqAHLc
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- **Posted:** 2021-02-20T16:22:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Edutopia (@edutopia) — https://gondola.cc/edutopia

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Once students and teachers return to school, “we’re going to find that they learned quite a lot during this pandemic,” writes Christopher Klein, a consulting teacher in Rockville, Maryland. “Pushing pedagogy through an electronic pipeline has bred creative adaptations,” the best of which will endure after schools reopen. ⁣
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Here are the most “durable power-ups” Klein predicts will stick around:⁣
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💻 Mastering edtech: Teachers became skilled tech users this year. That’s likely to continue as new technology emerges, with teachers quickly zeroing in on tools that work and discarding those that don’t.⁣
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👓 Considering end-users: Student-centered learning isn’t new, but teaching “through a tech lens” renewed focus on the issue and led teachers to simplify communication, reduce visual clutter, and keep seeking student feedback—things Klein hopes teachers will incorporate going forward. ⁣
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🧡 Increasing empathy: The student-camera issue increased sensitivity to students’ anxiety and trauma, and encouraged teachers to find other ways to gauge student comprehension. Interactive tools like Nearpod, Pear Deck, and Flipgrid “will continue to provide the most equitable form of classroom participation, the one where all students contribute,” writes Klein.⁣
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⌛ Maximizing class time: “Ideally, teachers will continue to create lean six-minute videos that distill what would have previously been 30-minute lectures, and they’ll continue to supplement these videos with info-gap activities; structured partner discussions; and time for meaningful, student-generated questions,” says Klein.⁣
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🌐 Improving differentiation: As online learning materials continue to improve, it will “open the floodgates” for more consistent blended and self-paced learning, allowing differentiation to become the norm. ⁣
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🎓 Emphasizing mastery: Regular, tech-enabled individualized feedback will “fuel and channel student energy, leading the shift from grading as compliance to mastery-based grading policies,” and allowing educators to “shed the busywork that doesn’t just bore students but demoralizes them by tanking their grades,” Klein writes.⁣
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Link in bio.⁣

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