Basics of Blended Learning
Any formal education 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
What is Blended Learning?
Teacher demonstrates the assigned task
What is teacher modeling?
Provide teachers, students, and other stakeholders with evidence of growth in student content knowledge and Portrait of a Graduate attributes. Utilize a balanced assessment approach where students monitor their own growth and demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
What are purposeful assessments?
An easy way to allow students to scan an image and view content, access sites, or input dates onto their calendar.
What are QR codes?
At least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home
Where does the student learn?
Define for students what they will be able to do by the end of the lesson
What are student learning targets?
Aligned to enduring understandings, concepts, and transferable skills so that students move beyond a focus on facts, co-construct deeper meaning of their learning, and develop authentic connections to the world around them.
What is concept-based curriculum?
Video discussion platform. Teachers post a topic and students post video replies.
What is FlipGrid?
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute with functional change
What is augmentation?
Activities to check for understanding are low-risk and/or involve all students
What is emotional safety?
Provide independent and collaborative learning opportunities that enable students to construct their own knowledge through inquiry and discovery. Engage students in higher level thinking rather than rote learning.
What are meaningful learning experiences?
An online bulletin board. Teachers create and share a link with students so students can share and organize their thinking.
What is Padlet?
Tech allows for significant task redesign
What is modification?
Explicit teaching of cross-content academic vocabulary
What is connections to other content?
Provides safe, supportive, and interconnected physical and virtual environments that ensure students have multiple pathways of learning.
What is a learner-centered environment?
A tool for screen capturing and recording. It allows the user to annotate these pictures and videos with stamps, text, arrows, and more.
What is Snagit?
Tech allows for the creation of new, previously inconceivable, tasks
Redefinition
Students encouraged to pursue self-selected research related to content
What is student choice?
Plan, teach, assess, and __________.
What is reflect?
An assessment tool where students can type, draw, or submit images to demonstrate their understanding.
What is Formative?