Small Steps to a

Blended Classroom

• Sun West School Division

• March 16, 2015

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3 – 2 – 1

3 – You know about blended learning.

2 – You want to learn about blended

learning in the next 90 minutes.

1 – You think may be a challenge with

blended learning.

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The

Power of

Starting

Small

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“At its most basic level, blended learning lets students fast-forward if they have already mastered a concept, pause if they need to digest something, or rewind and slow something down if they need to review. It provides a simple way for students to take different paths toward a common destination. It can free up teachers to become learning designers, mentors, facilitators, tutors, evaluators, and counselors to reach each student in ways never before possible.”

Blended Horn and Staker, p. 11

Sun West SWISI

Participants

How might a blended

classroom benefit

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Instructional Problems

Meeting the needs of a diverse group of students; some struggling and some need enrichment

Students dropping out of school Multi-grade classrooms Attendance issues Big class sizes = less small group instruction Lack of time to “get through curriculum” Need to narrow the digital divide and develop

21st Century Skills Providing "just in time" feedback on student

learning

Blended learning is any formaleducation program in which a student learns at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.

The student learns at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home.

The modalities along each students’ learning path within a course are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.

Hiring Technology

Blended learning introduces technology in a purposeful, strategic way, to help solve (or at best assist with) some of these problems. Michael Horn and Heather Stakercall this "hiring technology".

Technology can be "hired" to:• deliver content (enrich and support)• instant feedback• additional practice• collaborate and communicate with others• locate information• present learning in new ways

In what ways are you “hiring”

technology?

What problem is that helping you solve?

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Criteria for Blended Learning

formal education program

student learns at least in part through online learning

some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.

student learns at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home

modalities along each students’ learning path within a course are connected to provide an integrated learning experience

Choice in Pace or Path

Offering Student Choice in Pace Offering Student Choice in Path

speed at which student

moves through the

learning - faster for

some, slower for others

Instructional Videos

DLC

Pathway to learning

◦ Level 3, 4, 5

Levelled Pathways

◦ Essential understandings

◦ Bloom’s levels

Student Choice in Pace

Pace - speed at which student moves

through the learning

Faster for some, slower for others

Pace – Instructional Videos

Content

videos? Instructional Videos?

Or both?

Make your own videos?

“Hire” from others?

Or both?

Sun West DLC?

What should I use to

record? How much

time will it take?

Where should I

host? Moodle? You

Tube? BrainShark?

Pearson See-Its? Other?

How might instructional videos help me

solve one of my instructional problems?

What will I need to get started?

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Potential Roadblocks -

Perception

Potential Roadblocks -

Motivation

Potential Roadblock -

Independence

Blended – working in inner city schools in America

Grit and Growth

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Grit and Growth

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Classroom Culture

• Start with the “why”

• Open up discussions

• Digital citizenship skill development

• Goal setting, tracking progress (self-

assessment)

• Turn-taking

• Patience

• Grit

• Responsible Use of Technology

Pace – Provide Access to an

Online Course

Develop a

course?

Access a course?

Or both?

Do I have students in my classroom

who would benefit from accessing an

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Pace – Targeted Practice

Mathletics

Reading A-Z

Others – e.g. Wowzers

• Discuss the “why” of focused practice.

• Help students set personal goals for

success.

How might students be given choice in

the pace or path using these

types of software?

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Student Choice in Path

Path – ways in which students access

the learning

Basic

3

Comprehensive

4

Thorough

5

Essential to

understanding the

outcome

Highly desirable

in understanding

the outcome

Desirable in

understanding the

outcome

What all students

need to know

about the

outcome

Application,

synthesis,

stretching your

thinking

Identifying Essential

Understandings

◦ Understanding by Design – Wiggins,

McTighe

Using Bloom’s To Determine

Level

Choice in Path – ways in which

students access the learning

- video, teacher time

Is It Right for You?

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Enrolment Key: theblendinmind

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