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blended learning. what is it?
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Blended Learning
What is it
Really?
What is it?
• Blend learning• Different things to different people• Engages students• Technology
Definition
• “Blended instruction combines the best of empowering technology and human touch so we can help each student learn more than ever before.”
– Alex Hernandez, partner at the Charter School Growth Fund
Benefits
• Additional courses• Flexibility• Scheduling• Variety of experiences• Personalized learning• Use of technology
Models
• A Rotation Model– Station Rotation Model– Flipped Classroom Model
• Flex Model• Self-Blended / A La Carte • Enriched Virtual Model
Elements For All
• Group Work / Collaboration• Differentiation• Discussions– Community of Inquiry
The Key
The key to ensuring that blended learning is beneficial to students is to focus on how it enables personalized learning and instruction.
Best Practices
– Relationships + community = student success
– 4C communication, collaboration, connections, celebrations
– begin early include all stakeholders– be consistent– remain open – be encouraging
– celebrations build community and confidence• celebrate daily• collectively and individually• involve everyone• big and small successes
– students who feel connected are successful
– makes learning personal– ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL
Best Practices cont…
Teacher Skills
– Confidence• Felt like 1st year teachers
– Reflection– Willingness to collaborate– Willingness to take risks
• Allowing students to take ownership• Allow them to grow on their own• Become a coach• Need to teach students how to do
– Willingness to be a learner• Dedicated to working hard • True grit
Blended Learning in Practice
Fraser Valley Distance Ed
• Online and paper• Online and classroom• Flipped learning• Field trips • Project based• tutoring
Riverside Virtual School, California
• Blended Model has taken off• Enrollment types– Self paced– Full courses – Flexible scheduling
• Hybrid– 60/40 split• Core academics at RVS• Athletics/fine arts at HS
RVS
• Concurrent Program–Semester based
• Blended Learning–flipped classrooms–Combination
RVS
• Students can be at the school as much as needed
• Avid online program for Middle School
– Get kids to make a Wordle on who they are– Post it to mural.ly– Cyber lounges
• Face to face place to go for online students• Retired teachers to moniter the cyber lounges
– Use remind101 for text messages to kids– Use calendar to communicate with kids for
special things to send out auto messages when you want
– Design the program, then add the tech.
Example Class
• One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect
– Mark Twain
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