Not exact matches
As Heather Staker and I have written, the
models of
blended learning most likely to
scale into the core academic subjects at all levels of schooling in the near term are sustaining innovations, in which online
learning is essentially an augmentation to the traditional classroom, but there is still a fundamental shift in the
learning model from the student's perspective.
Educators then need to adopt processes — such as discovery - driven innovation — for testing, iterating, and refining their
blended -
learning models in low - cost, low - stakes ways before taking them to
scale across a school or district.
If Korea uses its famed skill of rapidly adopting new trends and ideas to
scale innovations like the flipped classrooms in Busan about which I have written and other forms of
blended learning that escape the factory -
model of education, then perhaps some praise from President Obama would be well deserved.
Again, as the school and network
scales, I'll be curious to see whether
blended learning facilitates some of this role differentiation or if HHS sticks with a
model that keeps each teacher in charge of every element of each course.
Christine previously served as Director of
Blended Learning at Denver Public Schools, ensuring transformative school
models could
scale across the district.
«It's not appropriate to hold up a
model of
blended learning, suggest that this is the next big thing, but also not take that to
scale and not show that it can serve a wide range of learners, and that it can serve all sets of diverse learners that exist in public education today,» Glazewksi says.
Some highlighted experiences from these roles include teaching middle school math and special education, helping build KIPP's first regional
blended learning model, and supporting the
scaling of educational technology,
blended learning, and personalized
learning across the KIPP network.