Blended Learning in K8 Schools: Expert Advice from Michael Horn

Disrupting Class

Michael B. Horn | [email protected] | Twitter: @christenseninst

What If School Looked Like…

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What is disruptive innovation?

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Disruption in computing


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How does disruptive innovation relate to education?


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Prime examples of nonconsumption

• Credit recovery• Drop outs• AP/advanced courses• Scheduling conflicts• Home-schooled and homebound

students• Small, rural, urban schools• Unit recovery• Disaster preparedness• Tutoring• Developing countries • Professional development• Pre-K• After school

• In the home• Incarcerated youth• In-school suspension• School bus commute• Summer school• Teacher absenteeism• Migrant worker families• Foreign languages

Budget cuts and teacher shortages are an opportunity, not a threat.


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What are online learning’s potential benefits?


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Potential benefits of online learning

Personalization


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What is personalized learning?

• Tailoring learning for each student’s strengths, needs & interests• Enable student voice & choice in what, how, when & where they

learn• Provide flexibility and supports to ensure mastery of highest

standards possible• Personalization encompasses notions of differentiation &

individualization

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Different learning needs at different times

Long-term Memory

Declarative

Episodic Semantic

Procedural

Skills Habits


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Learning environments modeled upon factoriesCurrent system was built to standardize


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The “Swiss-cheese problem” in educationStudents develop holes in their learning


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Personalization through modularityBenefits of online and blended learning


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Potential benefits of online learning

Personalization Data and Feedback


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Deliver content to students

Testing & assessment

Progress to next grade, subject, or body of

material

Receive results

Fixed-time, variable learning


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Offer learning experiences to

students

Testing & assessment

Receive real-time interactive feedback

Progress to next body of material

Learning is fixed and time is variable

Competency-based learning


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High-quality competency-based learning

• Students advance upon mastery.• Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable learning

objectives that empower students.• Assessment is meaningful and a positive learning experience for

students.• Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their

individual learning needs.• Learning outcomes emphasize competencies that include

application and creation of knowledge, along with the development of important skills and dispositions.

A working definition from CompetencyWorks


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Potential benefits of online learningIndividualization

Teacher Effectiveness

Data and Feedback


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Mentor

Facilitator

Tutor

Evaluator

Counselor

What’s the best use of face-to-face time?


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Benefits of online and blended learningTeacher EffectivenessIndividualization

Data and FeedbackCost Control


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Will online learning fulfill its potential?


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Technology improves predictably


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The rise of K-12 blended learningDefinition of blended learning

A formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path and/or pace

at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home (such as school).

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The modalities along each student’s learning path within a course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.


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Blended Learning is not…


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Emerging blended-learning models


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Station Rotation Model


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Lab Rotation Model


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Flipped Classroom Model

Choose a rally cry

Implementing blended learning

Identify measurable outcomes

Organize the team

Teacher Experience

Student Experience

Content Technology Facilities Culture


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Safe

Clean

Inspiring

Available

Flexible

What’s the best use of brick-and-mortar space?

Choose a rally cry

Implementing blended learning

Identify measurable outcomes

Organize the team

Teacher Experience

Student Experience

Content Technology Facilities Culture

Identify and prioritize assumptions

Test and learn

Adjust!Adjust!

3 Essential Elements

Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ Engine• Millions of personalized learning

paths• Tailored to each student’s

unique needs

Motivating Environment • Motivating and empowering

environments• Gaming fundamentals, rewards

Rigorous Mathematics• Common Core State

Standards, Texas TEKS, Virginia SOL, Canada WNCP & Ontario Curriculum

• Standards for Mathematical Practice

© DreamBox Learning

DreamBox Lessons & Virtual Manipulatives

Intelligently adapt & individualize to:• Students’ own intuitive strategies

• Kinds of mistakes

• Efficiency of strategy

• Scaffolding needed

• Response time

Robust Reporting


Strong Support for Differentiation


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Blended Learning in K8 Schools: Expert Advice from Michael Horn