The teacher's role in the blended classroom ... …or when 1 + 1 is larger than 2

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Agenda

Part 1: Blended learning

Part 2: The Unified classroom / Blended Classroom

Part 3: Working with reading comprehension

1996

We can make a difference! «Today have we got Internet in our school!»

The voice of the pupils

Blended learning

“Blended learning is both simple and

complex. At its simplest, blended learning is the thoughtful integration of classroom face-to-face learning experiences with online learning experiences. “ Kanuka, Heater og Garrison, Randy D. (2004) «Blended learning: Uncovering its transformative potential in higher education», University of Calgary

When 1 + 1 is bigger than 2 Physical classroom Online classroom

Teaching in the physical classroom

The online classroom

What are the best qualities of the physical classroom?

What are the best qualities of the online classroom?

Tangent classrooms

Disconnected classrooms

Overlapping classrooms

The unified classroom

Meet Sid

BBC – The Classroom Experiment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J25d9aC1GZA (4:57)

How can teaching in the unified classroom help Sid?

Dylan Wiliam: Involve more students …. and give students time to think and reflect

(Source: The Classroom Experiment A damaging classroom habit Hands http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp5E6e14oEM)

Dylan Wiliam Formative assessment

John Hattie

What can happen if these concepts are blended together?

”Reading is the skill” Doug Lemov

Non-fiction Text: The Ice Age

Goals: • Be able to explain how glaciers

shaped the landscape

• Recognize and know the physical traces of the Ice Age

• Be able to calculate the ice thickness

• Be able to place the ice age on a timeline

• Develop individual reading strategies

• Motivate students to read the text several times

• Increase insight into own reading comprehension

Whole class

Small Group

Individual students

Teacher ask a question to students

Students work with question at home and post their answers / thoughts in online discussion

Teacher pick up answers in class

Students discuss in groups

Students present in class

The teaching design

Aligned with Concept Oriented Reading Instruction

Reading Comprehension Science Inquiry Motivation Reading and Science Integration Student Writing

CORI is a program designed by John Guthrie and Allan Wigfield

Words: Shape and content Writing and Sound Receptive and productive dimension

Pre-knowledge

The pupils collaborated on a page to gather information about what they knew before the unit started.

Pupil made page with polls and facts

Online discussion

Question: Why did the ice start to melt by the coast?

Searching for new words

Collecting words for a word cloud

http://www.wordle.net/

Word cloud

Quite visible which words that need attention.

Creating crosswords

NB! The pupils created the crosswords. It is a hard task. What is the question / clue if the answer is glacier?

Every student made a crossword

Solving one of the crosswords in class

What we * know * want to learn * have learned (Donna Ogle 1986)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWL_table

Know – Want to learn - Learned

Dokumentasjon

Reading comprehension in the unified classroom

• A community of learners was established

• More students were activated

• The silent students got a voice into the class discussions

• The studnets were better prepared for class discussions

• The teacher gathered evidence of learning

What should the teachers in your school / school district do?

How can I or the teachers in your school / school district utilise the unified classroom?

Great teachers

Davis Guggenheim – Waiting for superman http://vimeo.com/15132511

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Morten Fahlvik Education Research Manager

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