Hugh Gash calls educators to encompass the mystical experience in teacher reflection, an acceptance that much of how learning happens cannot be known, and in that acceptance lies hidden epiphanies. Gash also discusses "Radical Constructivism" including circularity, social, and embodied experience in learning. Gash's concepts are refreshing to an increasingly edu-corporate approach to learning design.

Before we all were participating in the Covid_19 pandemic social experiment of living like astronauts, Arnab Chakravarty had already embarked on his own journey into his own circadian rhythms. His ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) thesis was the culmination of months living "off the clock". In this session Arnab delves into moving away from a monochronic mindset.

Dr. Scott McLeod of Dangerously Irrelevant has been interviewing educators from around the world during Covid_19 crisis, and blogging about the crisis in school leadership during the pandemic political plague in the U.S. Here he discusses openness to teaching and learning innovation and the plan to continue learning online until school reopenings.

Dr. Jenae Cohn discusses multimodal communication, taking the students' pulse, broadening bandwidths, call and response content creation, strategizing synchronous and asynchronous time, onboarding the tech stack, online course design, and the new ethics around tech and student privacy. An amazing discussion bridging the current hybrid learning design challenges from K-12 to higher education.

Meredith Dodd of the University of Chicago Dewey Lab School talks about the mindfulness of tool within a Reggio Emilia environment applied to our hybrid digital and physical world. While we set out to discuss SeeSaw, Zoom, and mobile devices with early childhood, we quickly wander into what the digital world offers in deepening metacognition and working cooperatively with others.