This document discusses the potential benefits of online and blended learning models in education. It outlines how these models can provide personalized learning experiences for students, give teachers better data and feedback on student progress, and help control education costs. Various blended learning models are described, such as station rotation and lab rotation. It is argued that when implemented properly with clear goals and support for teachers and students, online and blended learning can fulfill its promise of improving education.
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Prime examples of nonconsumption
• Credit recovery
• Drop outs
• AP/advanced courses
• Scheduling conflicts
• Home-schooled and homebound
students
• Small, rural, urban schools
• Unit recovery
• Disaster preparedness
• Tutoring
• Developing countries
• Professional development
• Pre-K
• After school
• In the home
• Incarcerated youth
• In-school suspension
• School bus commute
• Summer school
• Teacher absenteeism
• Migrant worker families
• Foreign languages
Budget cuts and teacher shortages are an opportunity, not a threat.
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What is personalized learning?
• Tailoring learning for each student’s strengths, needs & interests
• Enable student voice & choice in what, how, when & where they
learn
• Provide flexibility and supports to ensure mastery of highest
standards possible
• Personalization encompasses notions of differentiation &
individualization
Lots of definitions
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Different learning needs at different times
Long-term Memory
Declarative
Episodic Semantic
Procedural
Skills Habits
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Offer learning
experiences to
students
Testing &
assessment
Receive real-time
interactive feedback
Progress to next body of material
Learning is fixed and time is variable
Competency-based learning
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High-quality competency-based learning
• Students advance upon mastery.
• Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable learning
objectives that empower students.
• Assessment is meaningful and a positive learning experience for
students.
• Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their
individual learning needs.
• Learning outcomes emphasize competencies that include
application and creation of knowledge, along with the development
of important skills and dispositions.
A working definition from CompetencyWorks
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The rise of K-12 blended learning
Definition of blended learning
A formal education program in which a student learns at least in part
through online learning, with some element of student control over
time, place, path and/or pace
at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from
home (such as school).
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The modalities along each student’s learning path within a course or
subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.
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Implementing blended learning
Identify measurable outcomes
Organize the team
Teacher Experience
Student Experience
Content Technology Facilities Culture
Identify and prioritize assumptions
Test and learn
Adjust!Adjust!
Disruption in brief through circles – make clear 2 types of innovation (1 that improves products in the circle, 1 outside)Online learning as disruptionWhat’s exciting about it PotentialImprovingBlended learningTell blended learning as disruptive vs. sustaining story through sailboat shorthandTeam structures to innovateSomewhere how it fits in with project-based learning – in staffing.
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