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"Sal Khan, the founder of the Khan Academy, recently delivered the keynote address at the Hoover Institution's Symposium on Blended Learning in K-12 Education. In this keynote, he describes his vision for "education reimagined.""

I have been planning to do an #EdTech review on Socrative and Infuse Learning as they are fantastic tools for getting a healthy pulse of a blended classroom, a checking on prior knowledge, an exit slip, a checking for understanding or even for creating a formative and collaborative quizzing environment for learning. Think clickers on steroids really, but without having to purchase and distribute a uni-function device. The interfaces will allow any web connected device for more in depth responses from the learner that goes beyond multiple choice functionality. In fact, Infuse Learning even goes as far as allowing students to respond to a prompt in real time by drawing a picture and the submissions all get aggregated on the teacher screen so that the class can see everyone's drawings in one main view. Brilliant. I see that @JohnHardison1 beat me to the punch not long ago in promoting the use of these tools. In fact, he even has included chunked video screencast tutorials from his YouTube account embedded right in the post so that you can experience a demonstration about Infuse Learning options from the teacher and student perspective. Nicely done John! I hope our MyBlend community can check this out and benefit from learning about the power of these tools.

Multiple-Modalities, student anxiety for learners not prepared to have choices, competency-based learning is unique for each institutions based on research, allows for more 1-1 teacher support for students, some faculty provide more of an adviser role while others thrive as SMEs on the screens, place & time, good & bad days, agility of personalized learning, expectations of students for prompt responses proves to be a continual problem, teachers/institutions don't know where to start in all cases - advice is for IT infrastructure to be carefully planned out to align with student services side of an institution... start with a course or a degree program that lends itself well to a competency-based approach, start small, work with a team of others from other departments,

"Begin with the end in mind.  "

"There has been a lot of interest in the flipped classroom."

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

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.