The Pedagogy of Being a

Blended Learning Teacher:

Personalize the Learning

• Robin Gonzalez, President, Zia Learning

• Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of Curriculum, Illinois
Virtual School

October 2013
 Webinar Format
• Introductions
• Panel Discussion / Questions
• Type your Questions in the chat
• At end: Final thoughts from each panel
member
 Blended Learning
• “a formal education program in which a
student learns at least in part through online
delivery of content and instruction with some
element of student control over time, place,
path, and/or pace and at least in part at a
supervised brick-and-mortar location away
from home…”
- (Horn and Staker, 2013)
Tech-rich = blended
Teaching and Learning
• What the student is
doing and where the
student is.
 What the teacher is
doing and where the
teacher is.

 What and where the

content is.
 Webinar Focus
• Blended Learning Teaching
– What is blended learning pedagogy
– How is it different than face-to-face
– What are best practices in blended teaching
– How does blended learning personalize
learning for students and how this looks
 Today’s Presenters

• Robin Gonzalez, President, Zia

Learning
• Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of
Curriculum, Illinois Virtual School
• Chicago, Ill
Defining, implementing and measuring successful
Blended learning programs
Teach Thought
The three data points of personalized
learning
How does blended learning support
personalized learning
And what is the teacher’s role?

Facilitate Applied, Authentic, Learning

So why facilitate blended learning?
• Students get/deliver information how
THEY want it:
•Web-based reading, writing,
listening
•Images, text, audio, video
•Web conferencing and interactive
options

• Increased engagement
• Student opinion data drives lesson
content
• Bring in experts, guest speakers, other
students
• Connect to global projects (Online
Science Fair, International Energy
Challenge, NASA, Live From the Heart)
In an effective blended learning environment:
To implement consistently, we must define and train for a
new teaching paradigm:
Measuring effectiveness
What we’ve seen that works:
• YCCS Charter Schools
• Fully blended
• Adaptive, personalized, digital curriculum
• Focuses on students with significant learning gaps and credit
deficiencies
• FLEX Academies
• Emphasize facilitator approach
• Flexible learning spaces and opportunities
• Chicago Public “Get Inspired” Program
• Leverages cultural and corporate spaces, coupled with online learning
• Provides unique, truly hands-on, applied learning options
Choice Access to support
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Trust
Curiosity
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Clear Expectations
Love of Learning
What do you need?
Resources/Tools
•Learning Management System (Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn,
Canvas, Wikispaces, EdModo)
•Authoring tool (Lectora, Articulate, SoftChalk)
•Audio (Audacity)
•Graphics (Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp)
•Screen Capture (Camtasia, Jing, SnagIt, Screencast-o-matic)
•Assessment (GoogleForms, Questionmark, Hot Potatoes)
•Repositories (SLE, LOR, OER – OpenCourseWare Consortium,
Connexions, Merlot, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Khan Academy, OER
Commons, CreativeCommons, Mathletics, eJourneys, Dropbox)
•Webconferencing/virtual classrooms (Blackboard Collaborate, JoinMe,
AdobeConnect, GotoMeeting, Skype)
Checking Student Progress
• Pace Check
• Checklists
• Blogs
• Forums
• Google forms
• Photos, videos
• Web conferencing
• Understanding
• Google Form/online quiz tools
• Application Sharing
• Project sharing
Checking Your Progress
SWOT Analysis

Blended Learning Myths

1)It's cheaper
2)It can be used to replace teachers
3)Anyone can do it….right away
4)One doctrine of pedagogy is fine for one district/school
5)You can do this by yourself
www.frameworkforblendedlearning.com
 Other Questions?

• Final Thoughts
 Contact Info

• Robin Gonzalez, President, Zia Learning -

rgonzales@zialearning.com
• Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of
Curriculum, Illinois Virtual School -
jkolarburden@gmail.com