Lesson plans (Educator-led)

In What is ClassDo, and What is Creative Skilling, we mentioned the importance of covering all 3 of the following 3 pedagogical approaches, as described by Dr. Helen Bound’s research note:

Educator-led : Reproducing Knowledge (RK)

Primary speaker in lessons: Educators
Educators make sense of the content and present it to passive learners
Standard problem: There is often an SOP

Mixed : Distributed Knowing (DK)

Primary speaker in lessons: Educators and Learners
Educators make some sense of the content, but so do learners
Non-standard problems: There is no SOP, but solution(s) are known

Learner-led : Dynamically Generated Knowing (DGK)

Primary speaker in lessons: Learners
Learners actively do the work of learning
Highly Complex problems: Students identify, name the problems and develop solutions

In this help page, we will be describing how you may make use of ClassDo’s tools to conduct educator-led lesson plans.

Utilising Slides (PDFs or PowerPoints)

If you have any slides or PowerPoint files, you may first upload them into the ClassDo library.

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We would you recommend that you upload the PDF version of any slides or PowerPoints, to avoid any formatting issues due to design elements or different languages.

All the PDF materials still available after the lesson. Learners can spend time engaging with Dr York, rather than screenshotting/taking notes. Double click on image to enlarge

Learn more about how you can make use of the PDF presentation features. As a sneak peek: you may annotate on the slides to present additional insights onto academia articles or highlight certain points. If you are going through a case study or article, you can get learners to follow exactly what you’re seeing on the PDF.

Share a video

You may play a video by uploading the video or using YouTube. ClassDo allows you to sync the video across all your learners.

Introduce concepts to learners more effectively with animations or real-life examples by playing videos at the right time within your teaching. Double click on image to enlarge

Class Management and Awards

For a personalised approach to cater to different learning styles of students, you can track students’ attention with the focus tracking feature, or award medals to students across lessons.

Educator-led pedagogy in lessons is important. However, including other elements of mixed pedagogy may be difficult. Learn how to do so in the next article.