Transitioning from Class to Blended Learning Environment

Transitioning from Classroom to Blended Learning

http://moourl.com/blend Anne Mirtschin

Talking about….

• Blended learning• Curriculum planning • Assessment - Learning analytics• New skills required with…• Classroom stories

Talking about….

What is Blended Learning?

“A mix of face to face and computer enabled interactive/collaborative learning environments that suit the learning styles of students either individually or collectively”

Students want learning to be mixed!

DigitalDigitalDigital

VirtualVirtual

Student BlogsStudent Blogs

WikisWikis

Collaborative DocumentsCollaborative Documents

• Joshua: i like red rock• i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR• we are going there soon• It's pretty :)• do you know where mt eccells??• water looks awesome• Looks good to swim in ;)• wow thats blue, how did it get blue?• do you know where mt eccells is??• How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?• Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst• James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

Backchannels

MobileMobile

Global

Lunch with Indonesian students

Lunch with an author

An amazing blend

New Terminology

Games Based

Organic LearningOrganic Learning

Technology enables students to choose what,

where and from whom they learn

Technology enables students to choose what,

where and from whom they learn

• ‘”Miss, can you please give me TRIAL EXAMS for unit 4 vce accounting 2011 and from previous years

• My classes are big and my teacher isnt that good withrevision so i was wondering. i was wondering if you know any VCE MATH METHODS and ENGLISH  sites like this so i can email teachers if i dont undertand or want practise exams.”

Learning slap guitar from youtubeYoutube for learning

365 photo challenge

Students opting to take up this challenge, getting feedback and learning from global adults in an online community.

guitar.wmv

365 photo challengehttp://365project.org/

Einige unserer Studenten lehren selbst, wie Deutsch zu sprechen über das Internet, wenn zu Hause.

Students want to learn German so they do it at home!

Renee

Accounting class 2011Accounting class 2011

Cash Journals

3 virtual rural students

3 different schoolsA year 11 and 12

combined f2f class

An ESL virtual student

VCE AccountingVCE Accounting

• Develop a professional learning network – twitter, email lists

• Connect with vibrant online communities – nings, edmodo, mightybell, edutopia

• Curation tools – diigo, delicious, scoopit, pinterest, bookbinders, RSS

• Attend free online webinars eg Tech Talk Tuesdays, eT@lking, Community Connect (Australia Series), Classroom LIVE2.0 etc

Transition to Blended!Transition to Blended!

@, #, hashtags, abbreviations, shortened links, RT

Interpreting a TweetInterpreting a Tweet

• Goto http://www.tweetchat.com• Key in #perfecting2012• Key in earthquake• Key in a chosen search word ie a topic studied

in class

• View Commoncraft video search in Twitter

Twitter as search engineTwitter as search engine

http://www.tweetchat.com

Hashtags are searchable

• 300 hashtags• Cybraryman’s List of Hashtags• Educators Guide to Innovation• Conference hashtags of interest

Hashtags

Email lists

Join online communities

Join online communities

Planning curriculum

VELs, AUS VELs sets out the curriculum for Victorian teachersBut……

Technology use can drive new pedagogies

Planning the curriculumPlanning the curriculum

• Teachable moments• Immediacy of learning ie Learning is NOW • Customized learning• Messy learning/teaching• Hacked learning

Be prepared for..Be prepared for..

Created using http://www.wordle.net

MOOC

textbooks

The students

Learning network

@ Email lists

communities

Learning ResourcesLearning Resources

School email

Tools Used

Every student has a voice!!

The virtual classroom

Can you please tell me a summary of the chapter?

Can you please tell me a summary of the chapter?

ESL StudentsESL Students

Visual data!Visual data!

West Java Earthquake•7.3 richter scale•64 deaths, 37 people missing, and 27,630 people displaced in nine districts in West Java and one in Central Java. •Approximately 54,231 houses were damaged in 12 districts in West Java and one district in Central Java.

Teachable MomentsTeachable Moments

Speaking directly with earthquake victims 12 hours later using skype

What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can happen these days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the things that your students could learn and practice here, interviewing skills, geography and geology, information research, retrieval, editing, organization and sharing, all in the larger context of perhaps assisting those in need who were thousands of kilometers away. I want to make the point, however, that it's all grounded in your own understanding of these technologies and the ways in which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge and experience, this probably would not have happened, and that really is the goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more comfortable in using these technologies to learn in our own practice. Thanks so much for sharing this great snippet of learning from your classroom.

Will Richardson comment on blog post

Learning is Now!Learning is Now!

You cannot ask a text book questions!You cannot ask a text book questions!

• Joshua: i like red rock• i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR• we are going there soon• It's pretty :)• do you know where mt eccells??• water looks awesome• Looks good to swim in ;)• wow thats blue, how did it get blue?• do you know where mt eccells is??• How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?• Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst• James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

The BackchannelThe Backchannel

Beyond the Textbook Beyond the Textbook

Learning about Digital Citizenship using skype with a lecturer from Doha, Qatar

Skype intros with theAmerican School of Bombay

Should Australia go to India to play sport?

Should Australia go to India to play sport?

• Please write some bullet points about what has been happening to Indians in Australia in the past year. Include the response from Indians as well as the impact of these events on the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi.

• Why do you think these incidents of violence have been occurring against Indians? Is it happening against other ethnic groups in Australia?

Discussion QuestionsDiscussion Questions

Collaborative Google docsCollaborative Google docs

Ian Lewis Kanawinka – Volcanoes and Caves

Young Ng – Hong Kong -The World’s Smallest Geopark

Global, mobile teacherGlobal, mobile teacher

Spontaneous LearningSpontaneous Learning

Involve StudentsInvolve Students

Teachable MomentsTeachable Moments

Flatclassroom Student Summit for Global Education conference

Hurricane Sandy

A teachable moment!

https://voicethread.com/share/3615595/

CrowdsourcingCrowdsourcing

Mystery Skype

Fill in lesson organized over HLW group skype by teachers from Sth Africa, USA and Middle America for me and my class.

• [10:56:31 AM] Living Maths: Daivd and Anne,... have you considered using a google doc.,.. let the kids read and ask questions and you type all your responses - it will be nice to keep the "evidence“

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M31ubTjERmWsD6Odn9HtAPZhYSMo0TmhLlyxw8UVnos/edit

• [11:01:28 AM] Living Maths: map in ... now its too easy ;)• [11:03:38 AM] Living Maths: Chicago = coghaci• [10:57:07 AM] David Karnoscak: See you then. Just knock on my door

when you are ready.• [10:58:18 AM] Living Maths: A true and you can load maps in it and you

can insert QR codes too• [10:59:18 AM] Living Maths: and you can make an anagram from the

letters in your state's name and let them unjumble the,m• Or for 10 grade cnelstnriaiogssuiottahicaldoeieimfca• [11:17:49 AM] David Karnoscak: wow..I don't think even grad students

could figure it out.

On return from morning recess a google doc was setup ready to use with the class!

Mystery Skype

Could only ask questions that could be responded to by ‘yes’ or ‘no’ eg

•are you on earth?•Are you in the northern hemisphere? Yes•are you in france•Are you on a island near Australia

What it looked like!What it looked like!

Clues!Clues!

Michael Jordan was from here!Michael Jordan was from here!

Do you teach or have any knowledge of the native wars between the americans, seminoles, iroquois, cherokee etc, in the times of george washington?

Melbourne Work Experience

Melbourne Work Experience

Tweeted for suggested mobile phone apps for students to use

Formal SACs

AssessmentAssessment

• Dropbox• Emails• File transfer in skype• App sharing in BbC• Yousendit• Google drive• Evernote

Sharing assessable work!

Sharing assessable work!

• Check sheets• Blog comments• Google forms• Perusing saved chat or backchannel • Observing students via application

sharing

Monitoring ProgressMonitoring Progress

Google forms for testingGoogle forms for testing

• How do we measure success?

• Not just VCE scores, naplan data, but connectedness to school

• Community involvement & social competencies.

• Pathways to tertiary study and employment

• Enjoyment of learning

Measures of success?Measures of success?

Outcomes!Outcomes!

• Quantitatively by increased attendance• Student opinion data• Qualitatively by curiosity for more

information• Willingness to attend night-time or

'extra' classes• Increased motivation, enthusiasm and

involvement• Increased focus on tasks

Measuring EngagementMeasuring Engagement

School’s in at 9pm!School’s in at 9pm!

Flat Classroom Project students from Germany, China and Australia

Grade 6 USA student teaches Australian year 10 IT class about

HalloweenHalloween

• Group work – Collaboration/Interactivity• Communication – oral, visual, transmedia• Contribution to discussion• Assessing empathy, cultural understanding

Prep to 10 AssessmentPrep to 10 Assessment

International Friendship Day

International Friendship Day

• Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake• 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?• Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye• Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing• smithy: arent they posisoness• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?• jasmine .j: do they hurt• scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?• 4B DGPS: are they really blind?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?• Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?

The Backchannel – the BatsThe Backchannel – the Bats

• How to assess leadership, mentoring, collaboration, interactivity, group work

• Creativity• Degree of griefing, overcoming griefing• Positive/negative negative contributions

MinecraftMinecraft

Use PollsUse Polls

Blogs…..

• Comments• Pingbacks• Number of visitors• Tags/categories• Reflective posts

Assessing BlogsAssessing Blogs

Kailyn

From Beatriz (grade 4)

Learning about scratch with Lanna was great I reckon it was magical the way she showed us the snow outside it was the first time I ever saw snow. I asked a lot of questions I was very interested in what we were learning for example……

how long have you been using scratch? she had been using it for 3 years which means she has a lot of experience with scratch.

ScreencastsScreencasts

Google apps

Some assessment toolsSome assessment tools

•Rubrics for Blogs•Reflective Assignment•DEECD assessment

Assessment ResourcesAssessment Resources

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