Setting the Dial: A Guide to Blended Learning

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Location: Room 345
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Explore and create : Creation lab

Kristofer Thurston
Destiny Wagner
Get an overview of blended learning followed by three guided hands-on lessons in content, assessment and curation. Participants will create a digital learning portfolio of notes, tools and lessons.

Audience:	Coaches, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices required
Attendee device specification:	Laptop: PC, Chromebook, Mac
Participant accounts, software and other materials:	Having a Google account will help, but is not required. Attendees should have a working microphone and webcam on their laptop.
Topic:	Distance, online & blended learning
Grade level:	9-12
ISTE Standards:	For Educators: Learner Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by technology and reflect on their effectiveness. Facilitator Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings. For Students: Empowered Learner Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Related exhibitors:

Wakelet

, WeVideo, Inc.

, ScreenPal

, Screencastify

, GoGuardian

, Mote

, iCloth

, Duolingo

, Edpuzzle

, Kahoot! EDU, Inc.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

Deepen understanding of Blended Learning Strategies: Flipped Classroom, Flex, A la Carte, Enriched Virtual, Jigsaw Method.

Familiarize teachers with tools and methods for digitizing traditional content in order provide content and assessment in an blended environment: screen recording and editing tools, curation tools, online/alternative assessment tools.

Outline

1. Overview of Blended Learning, including methods and strategies.

2. Overview of digitizing traditional lessons with a focus on blended learning environments and methods.

3. Hands on lesson in Content Creation.

4. Hands on lesson in Content Curation.

5. Hands on lesson in Online/Alternative Assessments

6. Compilation of lessons learned into a digital portfolio to keep and share.

Supporting research

blendedlearning.org
visible-learning.org - John Hattie Effect Size
https://sites.google.com/nd.edu/higher-poweredlearningprogram/about - Notre Dame University's Higher-Powered Learning Program

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Presenters

Kristofer Thurston, John Paul II High School

CETL, Solver of Problems, Fixer of the Broke, Herder of Cats, Navy Veteran, Currently working on a PhD in Cable Entanglement Theory Director of Technology with 22 years of experience in both public and private schools.

Destiny Wagner, EdTech Nerds