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Michael Walker's List: Blended learning

    • There are two keys to building the kind of trust required to make the new system successful. The first is to train teachers to effectively facilitate student learning without being the center of attention on a daily basis. This means teachers must develop a new skill set that hybridizes their content knowledge as well as their ability to transfer that knowledge to other fields. The number one trait that districts will be using to judge new teachers in the years to come: flexibility.
    • The second emphasis should be on generating this type of hybrid learning on a district level before extending beyond the walls of local control.

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    • the interactions and successes of each setting feed off each other
      • Best practices in blended learning contain structured and unstructured components.

         
           
        • Create a structured core curriculum of learning activities that are taught using a variety of instructional methods.
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        • Support an environment in which students can learn smaller parts and work their way up to more complex ideas.
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        • Create a classroom in which students can learn informally.
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        • Provide technological support and for students.
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        • Provide an easy to use environment.

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    • “I use the blogs as a way of helping my AP students to develop a unique writing  voice that should help them do better on the AP test. I use wikis for some of  the group projects I assign so that students can continue to work on the  projects after our computer lab time has expired,”
      • Here's my comment.

    • Teachers need time, resources and professional development to use blended teaching well. The problem is that most teachers have not been prepared during pre-service training to use these tools nor have they learned to instruct students in how and why to use such tools in their learning.

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  • Apr 23, 10

    Articles include:
    Blended Learning:
    Maximizing Student
    Learning and
    Collaboration

    • 1. Online Content Specialist: These teachers will deal exclusively with content in an online capacity and handle large amounts of kids in developing a deeper understanding of isolated topics while also teaching students to think critically about the ways that these topics are applied to the “real world”.
    • 2. Teacher Facilitator: These teachers will work within the building structure that we currently call “school” on interdisciplinary projects with students so that they learn to think critically and put the pieces of the puzzle together that they gain from their online experience.

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    • Students engaging in networked learning research must be more self-directed.
    • Teachers, on the other hand, are challenged to provide an appropriate balance between structure and learner autonomy in order to facilitate self-directed, personalised learning (Beaudoin, 1990; McLoughlin & Lee, 2010). Such a scenario further presents challenges to traditional forms of assessment.

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    • What Makes a Successful Online Student?
    • Student?

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  • Jun 11, 10

    Game allows you to explore what online learning is like in several different roles.

  • Aug 14, 10

    Collaboration between teachers after discussion at ISTE. I'll use this as a jumping off point at a "Teaching Beyond the Classroom Walls" workship I'm giving.

  • Sep 13, 10

    Massive Open Online Course how to be successful.

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