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iNACOL Teacher Talk Webinar: Blended Teaching Pedagogy and Personalizing Learning
The document discusses blended learning, defined as a formal education program combining online content and instruction with some supervised in-person learning. It highlights best practices for pedagogical approaches that personalize student learning, emphasizing technology's role, student engagement, and teacher facilitation. The webinar features insights from Robin Gonzalez and Jennifer Kolar-Burden on implementing effective blended learning environments and addressing common misconceptions.
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- 1. The Pedagogy ofBeing a Blended Learning Teacher: Personalize the Learning • • Robin Gonzalez, President, Zia Learning Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of Curriculum, Illinois Virtual School October 2013
- 2. Webinar Format • • • • Introductions Panel Discussion/ Questions Type your Questions in the chat At end: Final thoughts from each panel member
- 3. Blended Learning • “aformal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace and at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home…” - (Horn and Staker, 2013)
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- 5. Teaching and Learning •What the student is doing and where the student is. What the teacher is doing and where the teacher is. What and where the content is.
- 6. Webinar Focus • BlendedLearning Teaching – What is blended learning pedagogy – How is it different than face-to-face – What are best practices in blended teaching – How does blended learning personalize learning for students and how this looks
- 7. Today’s Presenters • RobinGonzalez, President, Zia Learning • Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of Curriculum, Illinois Virtual School • Chicago, Ill
- 8. Defining, implementing andmeasuring successful Blended learning programs
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- 11. The three datapoints of personalized learning
- 12. How does blendedlearning support personalized learning
- 13. And what isthe teacher’s role? Facilitate Applied, Authentic, Learning
- 14. So why facilitateblended learning? • Students get/deliver information how THEY want it: •Web-based reading, writing, listening •Images, text, audio, video •Web conferencing and interactive options • • • • Increased engagement Student opinion data drives lesson content Bring in experts, guest speakers, other students Connect to global projects (Online Science Fair, International Energy Challenge, NASA, Live From the Heart)
- 15. In an effectiveblended learning environment:
- 16. To implement consistently,we must define and train for a new teaching paradigm:
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- 18. What we’ve seenthat works: • YCCS Charter Schools • Fully blended • Adaptive, personalized, digital curriculum • Focuses on students with significant learning gaps and credit deficiencies • FLEX Academies • Emphasize facilitator approach • Flexible learning spaces and opportunities • Chicago Public “Get Inspired” Program • Leverages cultural and corporate spaces, coupled with online learning • Provides unique, truly hands-on, applied learning options
- 19. Access to support Choice unity m Com Motivation Trust Involv emen Enthu siasm Curiosity t Flexibl s ocu F ePacin g Clear Expectations Love of Learning
- 20. What do youneed?
- 21. Resources/Tools •Learning Management System(Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn, Canvas, Wikispaces, EdModo) •Authoring tool (Lectora, Articulate, SoftChalk) •Audio (Audacity) •Graphics (Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp) •Screen Capture (Camtasia, Jing, SnagIt, Screencast-o-matic) •Assessment (GoogleForms, Questionmark, Hot Potatoes) •Repositories (SLE, LOR, OER – OpenCourseWare Consortium, Connexions, Merlot, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Khan Academy, OER Commons, CreativeCommons, Mathletics, eJourneys, Dropbox) •Webconferencing/virtual classrooms (Blackboard Collaborate, JoinMe, AdobeConnect, GotoMeeting, Skype)
- 22. Checking Student Progress •Pace Check • Checklists • Blogs • Forums • Google forms • Photos, videos • Web conferencing • Understanding • Google Form/online quiz tools • Application Sharing • Project sharing
- 23. Checking Your Progress SWOTAnalysis Blended Learning Myths 1)It's cheaper 2)It can be used to replace teachers 3)Anyone can do it….right away 4)One doctrine of pedagogy is fine for one district/school 5)You can do this by yourself
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- 25. Other Questions? • FinalThoughts
- 26. Contact Info • RobinGonzalez, President, Zia Learning [email protected] • Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of Curriculum, Illinois Virtual School [email protected]