Blending your teaching for the sake of learning

Presenter: Barend Blom

Organisation: Elim Christian College

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Blened learning resources: 

E Learning is.... (from TKI site)

• facilitated and supported by the appropriate technology
• could be supported by 'paper based' or fully online
• deliberate and justifyable choice about the best tool
• effective learning is central
• accessible 24/7 and relavant to learners
• motivating and engaging
• improves learning outcomes
• range of different devices

Basically - e-learning is teaching with technology in a pedagogically sound way but this is not blended learning!

E-Learning

- see the car move on the floor and the probe showing the graph on the screen

- typing tutor used to reinforce a skill

- reinforcement apps - Tables Bingo

- use iMovie to show learning

Blended learning:

Blended learning is a subset of this: (one strategy)

 - use resources that are on-line to remove the boundires of your classroom

 - Monday - tweet of learning objectives, Tuesday - tweet set of resources, Wednesday - tweet follow up activites and further resources.

In school it looks like:

Instant feedback giving students their next steps.

Groups working collaboratively on different projects.

Groups working on rich tasks.

Teachers tracking and working with groups / individuals.

Christenson Institute: Clayton Christenson

Book: Disrupting Class

The revoluction happenging in education.

Rotation Model for Blended Learning: 

Rotation station:

Teach a learning intention through a range of three activity stations, rewind u-tube video (better to make your own as they connect with that better), practical activity, vocabulary station, on-line quiz search. This enables you to focus on the practical and the vocabulary students. 

Lab session:

Rotate through the practical lab session.

Flipped classroom:

Use videos of lesssons so they can be pre/post viewed or reviewed.  This clones you so you can be in two places.

Individual rotation:  Oops missed!

Focus on the SMAR Model

Mathletics:

Is blended because there is an online competition for learning - giving on-line audience.

So what?

• Be sure I know the difference between e-learning and blended learning and promote the understaning within our school.
• Begin to develop a bank of 'flipped classroom' videos for maths strategies etc but look at way to build a format that the whole school can access. 
• Start small - add to the Kidscafenz again this term but look at making a central resource.

REFLECTION cycle:

1.  What's happening?

2.  What's not happening?

3.  How can I influence what's not happening?

In a MLE teachers need to have 'with-it-ness' allow for social conversations but keep them moving back to the task at hand without shutting down the 'Brain break' social talk.