Blended Learning

Tech Integration in Blended Learning

Check out this article to learn ways to integrate engaging technology into your classroom to enhance student learning by John McCarthy.

How to Implement a Station Rotation Blended Learning Model

Station Rotation Model

The station rotation model is a great way to integrate technology into your classroom. Consider creating stations that include collaborative opportunities, partner work, individual assignments, and a teacher directed station.

Examples of Blended Learning at LFSD

Central Elementary students in Mikayla Caldwell's Math class participated in a Blended Learning Lesson to demonstrate their understanding of multi-digit multiplication problems. Students rotated through a series of stations while Ms. Caldwell was able to float around addressing misconceptions and work with small groups of students to assess understanding.

Engage

Students worked together to solve multi-digit equations while creating a puzzle.

Collaborate

Working together in a small group, students created a word problem and demonstrated multiple approaches to solve the problem.

Discuss

Students participated in Math Talks. They read statements and had to decide if they agreed or disagreed with the statement and explain why.

Students in Michaella Estrada's class at Chipman learned about ratios and multiple ways to represent ratio relationships. The methods included double number lines, tables, and tape diagrams. Students researched relationships to create a ratio that could be solved using tape diagrams.

Application

Using what students were learning in class, they were to create their own real life ratio problem.

Student Centered

For example, one group researched NBA players' career points to create a comparison in the form of a ratio relationship.

Creativity

Students worked in groups and had time to brainstorm, research and explore.

Digital Citizenship

The fall newsletter included information on Digital Citizenship. Laura Glacken, a teacher at Chipman, created a WebQuest as an engaging opportunity to enhance student understanding while collaborating on the importance of appropriate online behavior.

Cross Country Collaboration

For the past couple of months, students in Mrs. Stant's classroom at Lake Forest East have been building friendships with a Collaborative Classroom in Hesperia, California. Students communicate monthly using Google Docs, email, and Flipgrid. This month's project was to introduce our California friends to new books. Students recorded Flipgrid videos to present library books as a way to encourage the Californian students to check out the same books in their school's library. At the same time, the California students were recording Flipgrid videos of their writing project about elves. Usually, a few different projects are happening simultaneously to allow for interactive opportunities.

Screencastify

Central teacher, Danna Carter, uses Screencastify to review keyboarding skills independently in a blended learning setting. Stephen West, a Chipman teacher, has used Screencastify to communicate with parents. How can you use this tool in your classroom?

Posted Winter 2020

Gamify with Quizlet Live!

In Zaretta Hammond's article, 3 Tips to Make Any Lesson More Culturally Responsive, she states, "Games are the power strategy for culturally-grounded learning because they get the brain’s attention and require active processing. Attention is the first step in learning. We cannot learn, remember, or understand what we don’t first pay attention to. Call and response is just a way to get the brain’s attention. Most games employ a lot of the cultural tools you’d find in oral traditions – repetition, solving a puzzle, making connections between things that don’t seem to be related."

Check out Quizlet Live to gamify your classroom by engaging students with competition and collaboration with peers!

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