blended learning strategies - an overview
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REACHING ALL STUDENTS IN A BLENDED TEACHING & LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
GRACE MAGLEY, M. ED. INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGYSUPERVISOR OF ONLINE LEARNINGNATICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NATICK, MA
BLENDED LEARNING SPECIALISTACCEPT EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE, NATICK, MA
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BLENDED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ENABLE EDUCATORS …
Julie Elkan, Katina Costello and Jamie Cutone, Holliston. John Leighton, Franklin.Grace Magley, Sharon Monaghan and Wendi Cantoreggi, Millis.
TO HELP STUDENTS BE SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS …
Blended Classrooms in Holliston, Franklin, Medway, Hopkinton and Millis
BY DESIGNING INSTRUCTIONAL UNITS THAT ARE STUDENT CENTERED, RELEVANT, RIGOROUS, VARIED AND ACTIVE!T R A D I T I O N A L C L A S S R O O M B L E N D E D C L A S S R O O M
From Teacher Focused to Student Centered
Virtual Classroom
Physical Classroom
Blended Learning
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Defining Blended Learning
Blended Learning helps create more effective ways forstudents to learn and to master content and skills.
WHAT IS BLENDED LEARNING?
Blended Learning is the Integration of Digital Content, Resources and Web 2.0 Tools into classroom Instructional Practice to Engage, Enhance, Expand and Transform Student Outcomes.
OURDEFINITION
Blended Learning in Action, presentation by Colleen Worrell, Virtual High School and Susan Rees Executive Director of ACCEPT Education Collaborative given at the 2011 ASEA Conference
Research-based Best Practices combined with 21st Century Resources, Tools & Techniques
UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING (UDL)
UDL is Research-based and good for all learners
Image credit: http://www.cast.org/udl/
Virtual classroom extends learning 24 x 7
Gives students choice and voice outside of school
Makes classroom time more valuable
Ability to revise teaching based on individual student understanding
Teaching and assessing for learning combine
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS & E-LEARNING
“Personalization has and can take place without technology, but not at scale. Technology dramatically increases a teacher's ability to identify and manage the needs of many students, and for students to access a large variety of interventions, content, resources, and learning opportunities everywhere at anytime.”
- Innovate to Educate: System [Re]Design for Personalized Learning. A Report from the 2010 Symposium. SIIA, ASCD, and
CCSSO
THE LMS IS THE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM!
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER), WEB 2.0 TOOLS
Free to use, rich and engaging digital technologies for learning, thinking and collaborating.
• Effective feedback • Active Involvement• Adjusting teaching• Recognition of
Profound influence assessment has on motivation and self esteem
PRINCIPLES OF ASSESSING FOR LEARNING
NEW PILLARS OF 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
1. Classroom teachers are among score of “teachers” who are available to students 24x7 but they are most important since they facilitate connections, reflection, analysis and meaning making from all of the outside sources.
2. Students must learn how to learn independent of the classroom teacher
3. Knowledge is no longer defined as what we know but also as knowing how to find it quickly via personalized networks
Rob Mancabelli, Author of Personalized Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education, 2011
Rigor ManagerSubject Mater Expert, High
Expectations, Tutoring
Relevance ManagerLearning is Complex,
Active, Adaptive and Relevant
Relationship Manager Creates Culture of
Collaboration and Learning, Mentoring
CLASSROOM TEACHER: FACILITATES LEARNING
The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning and The Disruption of Blended Learning, The Journal July 6, 2011
Carol Tomlinson,2008
Creating Blended Teaching & Learning Environments is a PROCESS.Invest in teachers through quality PD and time to collaborate and take risks.
Start small:build a blended environment One Unit at a time. Start with clear learning objectives..
Use student assessments, feedback and reflection to improve Units
Be flexible, take risks, continually adapt learning resources and activities to students in class
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• Frees up class time for project work
• More time to work with students individually and in small groups to assess learning
• Most effective learning environment
• Teachers report they will never go back to traditional methods
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• Choice / Voice / Collaboration
• 21st century skills / literacies embedded
• Writing and Reflection
• Improved Productivity
• Self Directed
• Real World Connections
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Classroom Time is Project-based, Student-centered Learning in Action!
CONTACT ME:GRACE MAGLEY
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