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Setting the Dial: A Guide to Blended Learning
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Location: Room 345
Experience live: All-Access Package Year-Round PD Package Virtual Lite
Watch recording: All-Access Package Year-Round PD Package Virtual Lite

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 + Pear Deck Learning
, 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

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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.

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Destiny Wagner, EdTech Nerds

23 years as a classroom physics teacher, 6 years as a Technology Integrator, Certified Campus Technology Specialist, Certified Google Educator Levels 1 & 2, Course Developer for TCEA, DigitalYou Certified Instructional Coach