Blending Learning to Enhance Learning
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Blended Learning has changed the landscape of how I have learned to teach over the past 25 years. Initially, I began to experiment with Blended Learning as an adult educator due to the constraints of my students and their availability for lesson. I expanded this thinking to my middle school classroom as the conceptual framework of the courses I taught changed and my time became more limited. Flipped or Blended Learning allows students the opportunity for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic connection to content as it allows them to view video segments, become more metacognitive about the learning process, and to build upon their body of knowledge by creating content for themselves. Hence the integration of Youtube and the ability to create content for various audiences and for different purposes. Blended or flipped learning has really allowed me to reach beyond the 4 walls of my classroom and align my curriculum with other subject matter experts thus giving students various perspectives and styles of obtaining information. In that way, blended learning supports all levels of the cognitive process and will allow students to go beyond the curated content offered during the school day. Recently, I developed the first in a series of lessons designed to support students as they begin working on their Maker Space projects in the Fiber Arts. In my previous post, I outlined the foundation of our Makers Space project and how and when students would present. In this series of lessons, we begin the process of working toward research questions that support students understanding of their project and how they can acquire resources and mentors to aide in their success.
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