Blended Learning Strategies - An Overview

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.

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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

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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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• Writing and Reflection

• Improved Productivity

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Classroom Time is Project-based, Student-centered Learning in Action!

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