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Report: 6 Blended Learning Models Emerge -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    Even as it "disruptively" transforms American education, blended learning is itself being slowly reshaped into new and distinctive forms. A report released this week identified six emerging models for blended learning in K-12, ranging from guided online instruction in the classroom to "self-blended" models where students take courses a la carte.
Roland O'Daniel

Online and Blended Courses | techieMusings - 2 views

  • The AP Computer Science course is running as an online/blended course
  • the first our school has offered. I have no training in teaching an online class, but I’m doing the best I can with what I have.
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      Better to teach the course than wait for the perfect package to come along. These students are lucky to have this opportunity and a teacher willing to try something new in this era of "high stakes accountability" approach to instruction (test is most important, not learning). 
  • I MISS seeing my students on a daily basis.
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  • So I think the AP Computer class could be set up better (if I could set the schedule, it might be: meet 2 times per week during the school day and an optional after school meeting with 1 group Skype) to make it more enjoyable for me to teach.
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      Great honest response to this situation. Many of us became teachers because of the kids and the "light going on" moments. It's refreshing to hear a teacher say that and to acknowledge that this might be working, but I would like a model that provides more opportunity for me to share in that experience with my students!  I'm sure there are students who would like that opportunity as well, which is why I believe blended classrooms have a very bright future. 
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    Nice description of one way of developing an online/blended course model. I applaud Stacey's choice to do it, tweak later, rather than postpone doing it because it's "not 100% ready". 
Roland O'Daniel

Jeb Bush, Melinda Gates, Sal Khan and the Coming Digital Learning Battle : Education Next - 0 views

  • The debate over digital learning will soon enter a new phase.  No longer will educators debate whether or not digital learning has the capacity to transform the American education system.   Just about gone are the anti-technology Luddites who insist that every classroom be self-contained, with students and teachers left to their own devices, save for the help of pencils, chalk, blackboards and weighty textbooks stuffed into 10 kilo backpacks.
  • It is becoming increasingly obvious that digital learning systems can be tailored to the specific interests, learning styles, and levels of accomplishment of each student.
  • On the one side will be those who propose that most digital learning in K-12 public education be of the “blended” variety, that is, take place within public school classrooms under the tutelage of a highly qualified teacher.
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  • nline” proponents will argue that blended learning alone is not enough.  American education can be transformed only if the power to drive change is placed in the hands of students, who are offered a choice of providers that include not only the blended classroom but also those who offer products  exclusively online, supplementing asymmetric video presentations of online materials with interactive systems that employ such tools as Skype, interactive games, social networking, email communications and phone conversations.
  • Common standards provide a nationwide platform upon which next generation curricular materials can be built
  • hoice allows students to pick the courses most suited to their needs, abilities, and interests; and accountability ensures that learning is genuine.
  • For blenders, the keys to the intervention’s apparent success include the use of real-time performance information by qualified teachers, not just the videos and problem sets.
  • Apparent success, it must be said, because the impact of neither the blended nor the online version of the Khan intervention has yet to be documented by a randomized trial
  • Meanwhile, school districts and teacher unions can be expected to fight publicly funded online learning that offers students a choice of taking courses outside their local district school.  If online learning should prove to be more effective than the learning that takes place within classrooms, it would provide a serious challenge to the school district-teacher union duopoly that blended learning does not.
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    Jeb Bush, Melinda Gates, Sal Khan and the Coming Digital Learning Battle
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Posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email. - 0 views

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    Blending lines in how you post to the web. Moving toward a truly interactive web.
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Final_Maestro_Project_Paper.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    Interesting that the more students are allowed to access content via dynamic and graphical approaches that their scores increase. Why are we staying with symbolic/procedural approaches?
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