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BENEFITS OF BLENDED CLASSROOMS

DIGITAL CURRICULUM STRATEGY

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Innovative Classrooms

Innovative Classrooms involves carefully selecting teachers that wouldbe interested or are in specific curriculum areas that we want to targetin transitioning to to a classroom that is focused on creating an engag-ing, technology rich learning experience for each and every student.Seeded classrooms will help students become critical thinkers as theylearn through real world experiences and rigorous standards.

Benefits:

High utilization throughout the seeding process

Train the trainer program could be designed to help further grow the implementation

Specific delivery of applications and media can be focused

Curriculum or Grade Level Deployment

You could focus on a specific grade level to provide a specific deployment of iPad carts.

Benefits:

Funds can be focused and utilized in a specific area

Easier to compare the diferent classroom configurations

Although there are numerous suggestions for diferentiating instruction in the traditional classroom, few teachersare able to apply these practices in a sustained way. Online learning ofers a more realistic solution to the educa-tional challenges of todays students than the limiting conditions typical of traditional instruction. Online learningspecifically provides the following advantages:

Digital Textbooks provide a curriculum for each courseat diferent levels of diculty to accommodate studentswith varying needs (Sloan & Mackey, 2009, ii).

Students can progress through the online program attheir own pace in a cycle of learning followed by assess-ment and review that permits true individualization.

The frequent assessments provided by the online pro-gram enable students to receive regular feedback thatfosters engagement and motivation.

Diferentiated, self-paced instruction delivered onlinecreates opportunities for learning that can occur at con-venient times and locations. While time and place are flexible, learning outcomes are primary.

Students develop more responsibility for and control of their learning when they have more choices regarding thepace, time, and location of online instruction.

Learning becomes more personalized as teachers take advantage of online alternatives to whole group instructionand avoid the frustrations of the circumstances of teaching described earlier. Instead, teachers are able to provideone-on-one or small group instruction. At the same time, students are less distracted by the social dynamics of thetraditional classroom.

Teachers no longer have the responsibility for developing the curriculum or delivering whole group instruction andcan focus on more efective roles as coaches, tutors, facilitators, and interventionists.

An online program can operate in a variety of learning settings within school and in other locations that are attrac-tive to students who want an alternative educational approach.