Blended Learning
Promote Active Learning w/ Blended Tech Tools
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Descriptor of Session
Learn how to integrate free tools that actively engage students and place accountability on students for their own learning. These strategies personalize instruction, allow students to learn at their own pace, and help teachers gain vital instructional time for application of learning.
Objectives
- Define personalized and blended learning and how they relate.
- Evaluate Blended Learning resources that will engage students and add accountability.
Success Criteria
- I can explain the basic components of personalized learning.
- I can explain how blended learning plays a role in personalizing learning.
- I can create content and add accountability in the tools reviewed.
Station Rotations
2. Nearpod
3. Quizlet
4. Matching activity
5. Article (OneNote) or paper
6. Videos and how to make an powerpoint with recording
Task: Playposit ( Part 1 and 2)
Playposit Part 1
Playposit Part 2
1. Login to playposit https://www.playposit.com with your Office 365 single
sign on.
4. Click on Add Students to create a class.
5. Use the first two minutes of the following video The 27 Amendments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWkdtEd-6wM to design a bulb with a least two questions.
Task 2: Nearpod
Videos and Powerpoint Recording
Videos
OR Use PowerPoint with recording features
CLICK HERE FOR A BRIEF TUTORIAL
OR
CLICK HERE FOR A DIFFERENT TUTORIAL
Example --- Rate of Change Presentation
IF TIME:
Participants will open Power Point and create three slides
Task: Matching Activity
Directions
Match the algebraic model with the verbal expression. This is to be done as a group activity.
Task: Article Annotation
Directions:
Read everything at least twice. The first time, read quickly to get a sense of what the text is about.
The second and subdseuqent times read carefully.
Mark anything that you think is: A. confusing, B. interesting C. surprising, or D. important.
Mark anything that is unfamiliar and keep going.
Begin to annotate.
A. Circle, underline, or stick on a post-it for important ideas and explain their significance.
B. Mark repetitions or rhetorical signals.
C. Circle confusing words or phrases. Define from context or dictionary if possible.
D. Note passages that seem inconsistent.
E. Note passages that generate a strong positive or negative response.
Write questions where you made annotations. These questions can be for your teacher to answer, for the class to discuss, for you to use in future writing assignments, or for you to keep as a reminder of what you were thinking.
Think about the connections between this text and other texts you have read, information from other classes, and personal experiences.
** Note
Task: Quizlet
DIRECTIONS
You may do flashcards, test, match or gravity
Quizlet Live (GROUP ACTIVITY)
Quizlet live will divide the participants into teams. Teams need to sit together and work to determine which team member has the correct answer to the question.
Then teachers will create a Quizlet account and find a question set for an upcoming lesson. Click on the question set to see the questions and click on the three dots to copy them into your personal bank of question sets. Notice you can combine question sets once you have added them to your bank.
Kaitlin Brown
Blackman High School
Email: brownka@rcschools.net
Website: https://bhs.rcschools.net/apps/pages/technology
Phone: 615-904-3850
Twitter: @mskatebrown628
Blended Learning
1. Rotation model — a course or subject in which students rotate on a fixed schedule or at the teacher’s discretion between learning modalities, at least one of which is online learning. Other modalities might include activities such as small-group or full-class instruction, group projects, individual tutoring, and pencil-and-paper assignments. The students learn mostly on the brick-and-mortar campus, except for any homework assignments.
a. Station Rotation — a course or subject in which students experience the Rotation model within a contained classroom or group of classrooms. The Station Rotation model differs from the Individual Rotation model because students rotate through all of the stations, not only those on their custom schedules.
b. Lab Rotation — a course or subject in which students rotate to a computer lab for the online-learning station.
c. Flipped Classroom — a course or subject in which students participate in online learning off-site in place of traditional homework and then attend the brick-and-mortar school for face-to-face, teacher-guided practice or projects. The primary delivery of content and instruction is online, which differentiates a Flipped Classroom from students who are merely doing homework practice online at night.
d. Individual Rotation — a course or subject in which each student has an individualized playlist and does not necessarily rotate to each available station or modality. An algorithm or teacher(s) sets individual student schedules.