Hemos hablado con Ally Morton, professor de Lacunza, que recientemente dará una charla sobre nuevas formas de impartir clases evitando el uso masivo del papel, tratando así de cuidar el medio ambiente y evitar el contacto en tiempos de COVID.
Esto es lo que nos ha contado:
It’s important that students feel that by coming to class they are getting more than they can from sitting at home with the class books. Therefore, in my teaching I am always adding, modifying, simplifying, or extending the material.
I used to do this by supplementing the coursebooks with printouts, but aside from the huge impact this was having on the environment, I was finding that some students would lose or not be able to find the handouts I gave them when I wanted them to refer back to them. As a result, I was wasting my time and resources.
Then COVID struck, lockdown happened, and Zoom teaching became our normality for around 3 months. In this time, I began turning my handouts into PDFs, which I organised for my students on Google Drive (although there are other methods available, such as Dropbox, OneDrive, and Lacunza are developing their Moodle system to serve this function in the near future).
With the advent of hybrid teaching and in some cases the return to face to face classes, I have continued the use of Drive so that both types of classes are treated the same; they both get access to the same documents, digitally. It also means that I’m not passing paper to students, so that contact between teacher and student can be avoided in times of COVID.
The paperless teaching aims to offer an insight into how students can use their notebook, complete unit tests digitally, self-evaluate, and access a digital class and writing portfolio; but also includes some technical tips for teachers who are less savvy with technology. I’ll also share some paperless games too.
What I am doing is in no way groundbreaking, but I think that teachers should question how essential it is to press ‘print’ on a document and consider whether a more environmentally friendly method of using or sharing the material is available.
Ally Morton, Lacunza English Teacher.
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