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To follow up, I'd like to visit these kinds of situations to witness what the f2f environment "looks" and tap students brains a bit to see how it's working for them.

via PocketOffice of Instructional Consulting: IU School of Education April 28, 2012 at 03:41AM @jgh @brainysmurf FYI these Bonk 10-min videos run fine on iPad (site says Firefox, IE...yuck) http://t.co/SW5ViZnm #bonkopen #bonkland via PocketOffice of Instructional Consulting: IU School of Education May 16, 2012 at 05:47PM

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"A look at the use of AWE's Student Learning Center computers in an elementary school classroom at Miami Elementary, part of Chippewa Valley Schools in Michigan, that is for students with cognitive disabilities. The video shows how AWE's products provide an ideal blended learning solution in classrooms. "

"Nineteen of D.C.'s strongest public and public charter school teachers gathered in a small conference room at the Microsoft Policy Center in downtown Washington, D.C. to kick off the second year of the Education Innovation Fellowship (EIF)-a program designed to introduce D.C. teachers "to the most promising innovations in blended learning."  I'm joining the cohort this year as the curator of knowledge to document the Fellowship experience through video and writing. "

Blog Post Draft: Asking Questions about Blended Learning? - Google Drive http://goo.gl/NRCyH2

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I appreciate the focus on preparing students, parents, and teachers for the "shift" that happens when customizing and personalizing instruction. This article focuses on the ground-work that needs to be laid to transition parent and student mentality from a traditional to blended environment.

Solid post. I Digg it. Would love to solicit guest posts very much like this with Michigan faculty. I think his words about giving "a) some examples of research that supports blended learning and b) have some concrete samples of the different types of work that students will produce and c) demonstrate what assessment will look like. If you cover these three components, then my experience is that parents are thrilled about the change." could also ring true for MyBlend PD.

"Instead of a course syllabus or description, I've found it more useful to give students a "roadmap for success".  Here is an example from my middle school Geography class.  The idea is that all learning options are clearly laid out and routes for success are made clear.  It is well worth spending a class or two clarifying what the journey will look like in a blended learning environment and I've found that this reframes the experience for students in a way that they understand.  It also lays the groundwork for the one-on-one conversations you will have with students moving forward.  You will want to delineate the different segments of the class, discuss possible timeframes for moving through the challenges and what the options are for demonstrating mastery at each stage.  In this particular roadmap, some items are bold because they will be done by all students.  Other components are framed by a dotted line meaning that only some students will be eligible for those challenges based on their progress at specific stages.  You will want to make the roadmap as clear as possible so students are able to understand the journey to the point where they develop a sense of agency around their work. "

I appreciate how Missy McCarthy has gone through the process of flipping her Math classroom and reflecting on the things she has learned. Missy teaches math at Okemos High School in Okemos, Michigan. In this post, in particular, she recounts how she took one class period to observe her students while they watched her screencasted instructional video to learn about their viewing habits of the content she has been creating. Her findings were interesting as they relate to the common concern of the flipped classroom regarding if the students are actually watching the videos or not, their note taking habits, if they are doing the practice problems or diving right into the required homework, and the ability for students to transfer what they are learning in the videos to problems that were not in the exact form as the examples provided. This, in turn, is now guiding how Missy is structuring her content, providing required note taking guides to evaluate if conceptual understanding improves, and even guide some of the questions she poses and instruction she delivers in the classroom together so that she can help students through the process of transferring the knowledge to new contexts.

Roman Stotland10:16 AM+1 2 1 1 Reply I think this is great that schools have the option to do this, and thinking about it, we do the same when we (MVU) have a "snow day". It is definitely beneficial for the 12th graders in the article that all have district assigned laptops, the only things that might hold something like this back is students with households that might not have the latest technology or internet, which does still exist. What would be the solution for them?

In this video, Dr. Curt Bonk from the School of Education at Indiana University brings up ideas and things to consider for those who are looking to implement blended learning. Dr. Bonk is a very engaging educator who shares his findings and teachings with the world to help educators connect on the topics of online and blended learning strategies.

"Here are four crucial factors to keep in mind as schools plunge in."

Working story draft - Learning like a skateboarder https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BzVKWS1r0y-M4jlp6DGR8Yg1fyJ_2e38OiL1elCN2Dc/edit