The Pedagogy of Being a Blended Learning Teacher: Personalize the Learning

• Robin Gonzalez, President, Zia Learning• Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of Curriculum, Illinois

Virtual School

October 2013

Webinar Format

• Introductions

• Panel Discussion / Questions

• Type your Questions in the chat

• At end: Final thoughts from each panel member

Blended Learning

• “a formal 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)

Tech-rich = blended

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.

Webinar Focus

• Blended Learning 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

Today’s Presenters

• Robin Gonzalez, President, Zia Learning

• Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of Curriculum, Illinois Virtual School

• Chicago, Ill

Defining, implementing and measuring successful

Blended learning programs

Teach Thought

The three data points of personalized learning

How does blended learning support personalized learning

And what is the teacher’s role?

Facilitate Applied, Authentic, 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)

So why facilitate blended learning?

In an effective blended learning environment:

To implement consistently, we must define and train for a new teaching paradigm:

Measuring effectiveness

What we’ve seen that 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

CommunityMotivation

Enthusiasm

Involvement

Curiosity

Focus

Choice

Flexible Pacing

Trust

Access to support

Clear Expectations

Love of Learning

What do you need?

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)

• Pace Check• Checklists• Blogs• Forums• Google forms• Photos, videos• Web conferencing

• Understanding • Google Form/online quiz tools• Application Sharing• Project sharing

Checking Student Progress

Checking Your Progress SWOT Analysis

Blended Learning Myths1)It's cheaper2)It can be used to replace teachers3)Anyone can do it….right away4)One doctrine of pedagogy is fine for one district/school5)You can do this by yourself

www.frameworkforblendedlearning.com

Other Questions?

• Final Thoughts

Contact Info

• Robin Gonzalez, President, Zia Learning - rgonzales@zialearning.com

• Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of Curriculum, Illinois Virtual School - jkolarburden@gmail.com