Blending lessons effectively

December 8, 2014

Flipped Classroom Technology: Blended Learning for All

StudentsMike Henderson and Billie Rengo-Grantsburg School District

Today’s PurposeLearning Intentions: By the end of this session, you will:

✤ Understand how to clearly set and communicate instructional outcomes for flipped lessons (Danielson Framework Ic: Setting instructional outcomes).

✤ Understand how to produce clear and sequenced lessons (Danielson Framework 1e: Planning and preparation).

✤ Understand how to create engaging instructional activities that propel student learning (Danielson Framework 1e: Planning and preparation).

✤ Success Criteria: By the end of this session, you will have:

✤ Identified lesson components that increase student learning.

✤ Identified key teaching strategies that will facilitate learning and engagement.

✤ Identified a lesson that you can flip and recognized your “next step.”

Making Connections

✤ What are your current views and understandings about blended learning?

✤ What do you already know?

Where are you going?

✤ What do you want or need to know?

Student Voice

✤ Student Voice

The future according to children

21st Century Learning

Purpose

✤ Access to Education

✤ Learning Pathways

✤ Motivated Students Can Work Ahead

✤ Scheduling Flexibility

Making Learning Visible

✤ Learning Intentions

✤ Success Criteria

✤ Instructional Strategies

✤ Educational Revolution

✤ Metacognition

✤ Reflection

✤ What are some possible stumbling blocks to blending or flipping lessons for students?

Blended Learning in

Elementary...Really?

✤ Layers

✤ Recognize student interests

Setting the Stage

✤ Responsibility

✤ Contract

✤ Consequences

Tracking Completion

Don't just focus on content

Get students involved

Increase responsibility

Accountability?

Tech Tool Selection

✤ Know your students

✤ Select the right tools based on ability levels

✤ Nightmares...

Screen Casting

Preparing contentAdvanced planningScreencasts of PowerPointsUpload to the web to make accessible

for students

✤ Screen-cast-o-matic (from your computer)

✤ Use your PowerPoints in a new way

✤ Great for any age (especially young readers)

✤ Appeals to visual learnersNow can conveniently be done

from your mobile device!

Check out "Presentation Recorder" in the App Store.

Augmented Reality

✤ Definition of AR

✤ Layar

✤ Aurasma

✤ App Smashing

LayarEasy to use

No usernames/passwords needed

Create on your computer

Students use the app to view content

Aurasma

✤ If walls could talk...

✤ Make video accessible

✤ Highly engaging

✤ Endless possibilities

✤ Visit Erin Klein's blog for step-by-step instructions

Aurasma

QR Codes

✤ Upload videos to YouTube

✤ Pair with the "ShowMe" app

✤ Another fun way to deliver content

✤ Accountability element (check the app's history)

✤ www.qrcode-monkey.com

Tellagami

✤ Create engaging videos

✤ Set the purpose for an activity

✤ Customizable with different backgrounds and voices

✤ Lesson Clarity

Tellagami

Nearpod

✤ Take your PowerPoints to a whole new level.

✤ Interactive qualities

✤ Teacher can monitor activity (feedback about learning)

✤ Students can check their answers and compare their answers with the rest of the class

✤ Homework feature

Effect size of .75

Can nearly double the speed of learning

Types of feedback

Self/praise

Task

Process

Self-regulation

From the Eyes of a Student

✤ Trial and error

✤ Trust

✤ Safe to take risks

✤ Content only vs. the ability to interact

✤ Independent activities vs. cooperative learning

Evaluation Time!

✤ Choose a lesson to evaluate.

✤ Are key criteria evident? (clarity in organization, clarity in assessment, obvious learning intentions and success criteria, effective instructional strategies)

✤ What suggestions for improvement can you make?

Reflect

✤ Share what spoke to you from our session.

✤ What did you think about?

✤ What will you do next?