- Lancaster Independent School District
- BlendED4Tigers
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What is blended learning?
Blended learning combines the best practices of online and offline instruction to give students autonomy over their learning.
What defines best practices?
Best practices include students building communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity skills in an innovative environment.
Blended Learning Rotation Models:
Station rotation: Students rotate through a series of different stations including these concepts: teacher led, interactive or collaborative, and online. Teachers can choose for students to rotate on a fixed or flexible schedule depending on what content is in each station.
Individual rotation: Students work on an indivdual playlist based on students' needs. This rotation model is different from stations because not all students will complete the same activities. The activities on the playlist allow for communication and collaboration, while focusing on reflection and student agency.
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Tools for Creativity
What is it?
Google MyMaps allows you to create and share maps with others. Students can add locations, images, 360 degree videos, and text. Discover new destinations and track places of interest. The possibilities are endeless and the map saves to your Drive and can be shared with the world.
What is it?
Google Slides is an online presentation app that lets you create and format presentations and work with other people.
Purpose
- create, edit and format presentations
- share and collaborate with others within a presentation
- access and present from cloud-based Google Drive
- create multi-media products (studnets and teachers
What is it?
Seesaw empowers students to independently document their learning with built-in creative tools, and provides an authentic audience for their work using the blog feature. When students add to their Seesaw journal or add a response from an activity assigned, teachers immediately have access to work from any device. For younger learners without 1:1 devices sign in is easy with a QR code. Students with a chromebook checked out may use their district Google account to sign in. Seesaw provides a space for students to unleash their creativity by utiliziting the drawing, video, audio, picture, or text response features.
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Tools for Critical Thinking
What is it?
Flipgrid is a video discussion platform used by millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, families, and organizations in more than 150 countries! Create a Grid (that's your classroom or group), add Topics to spark the discussion, and your students create a video reponse they can share with the group.
Purpose
- Allows for immediate student feedback and check for understanding
- Promotes student engagement
- Fosters meaningful discussions
What is it?
Edpuzzle is the easiest way to share videos to your students while embedding questions to track your students' understanding. Teachers can take already existing videos from Khan Academy, YouTube, or upload your own. Using EdPuzzle allows multiple ways to check for understanding including multiple choice, open ended questions and embedding time for students to pause and think about a questions. As soon as students complete the video activity, the teacher can view the data and provde feedback.
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Tools for Collaboration
What is it?
Padlet is a virtual, collaborative wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works likes an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. Students are able to respond to others using the comment feature.
What is it?
Classkick is a formative assessment tool that allows students to show what they know and get feedback from their teacher in real-time. Teachers can use this tool during whole group instruction to promote participation and guage students progress of the content. Asynchronous lessons can be asigned as well during stations and independent learning opportunities. Classkick allows multiple ways to check for understanding including multiple choice and open ended questions.
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Tools for Communication
What is it?
Quizizz is a multiplayer classroom activity. Teachers can create student groups/teams or students can work independently through the platform. Any device that can connect to the internet can used for quizizz.
Purpose
- increases student engagement
- provides real time data for the teacher
- assesses students in a fun and interactive way
What is it?
Using Google Forms you can create and analyze surveys directly within your web browser. Multple people can work at the same time, as well as all changes auomatically saved.
Purpose
- collecting data
- creating a survey
- create a formative assessment that allows the teacher to reteach based on individual student needs
What is it?
Formative is a real-time student response digital tool where studnets can type, draw, or submit images to demonstrate their understanding. It allows teachers to upload in a variety of different ways and insert questions or links directly on the document.
Purpose
- allows for immediate feedback
- the teacher can see live results
- enables creation for online assessments, classwork, or homework
- allows multiple ways to check for understanding
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December 15, 2021
8:00 AM Podcast Launch Date
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January 22, 2022
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Learners2 Leaders Communication Session
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Click here for the BlenED YouTube Channel
