Blend Your Learning for All StudentsTim Holt Executive Director Blended Learning EPISD

What is going on here?

What is "Blended Learning?"“Blended learning is any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick and mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, and/or pace.” 

The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning by Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker

Growth of Online LearningUTEP has 100% online degrees

EPCC offers 30% of all their instruction online

There are many 100% online PhD programs (from real universities!)

Benefits of Blended Learning

Benefits of Blended Learning for GT Students

• Pursue interests and academic talents • Rigorous and challenging curriculum • Interact with like-minded peers from around the world • Work at their own pace and level • Develop skills: technology, study, time management and writing • Ongoing interaction with a live teacher • Differentiated curriculum to meet individual needs

• Source: Center for Academic Talent: Northwestern University

How Blended Learning Changes Things

• From linear to hypermedia learning • From instruction to construction and discovery • From teacher centered to learner centered • From absorbing material to learning how to navigate and learn • From the teacher as transmitter to teacher as facilitator • From schooling to lifelong learning

Six Models of Blended LearningFace to Face

RotationFlex

Online LabSelf Blend

Online Driver

Face to Face• Most closely resembles the traditional classroom.

• The introduction of online instruction is decided on a case-by-case basis, meaning only certain students in a given class will participate in any form of blended learning.

Rotation • Students rotate between different stations on a fixed schedule – either working online or spending face-to-face time with the teacher.

Flex• With this approach, material is primarily delivered online. Although teachers are in the room to provide on-site support as needed, learning is primarily self-guided, as students independently learn and practice new concepts in a digital environment

Online Lab• • In this scenario, students

learn entirely online but travel to a dedicated computer lab to complete their coursework. Adults supervise the lab, but they are not trained teachers.

Self Blend• • Self-blend model of

blended learning gives students the opportunity to take classes beyond what is already offered at their school

Online Driver• Form of blended learning in which students work remotely and material is primarily delivered via an online platform

Lets take a vote with your feetPick the Blended Learning Model that you think best serves Gifted Students• Face to Face• Rotation• Flex• Online Lab• Self Blend• Online Driver

Explain Why

• Student centered• Increasing numbers• Higher order thinking skills• Helps teachers and students• Framework for data driven decision

making• Personalized learning• Productive gamification• Mobile world is where learning is now• Students personal access to

knowledge• Increasing broadband