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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms

Waterford

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to progress, many classrooms remain online in some capacity. Now is a particularly helpful time to consider implementing blended or hybrid learning, two strategies that allow for independent or remote learning. Blended Learning vs. Hybrid Learning. Sound similar? Sound similar?

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Rigor, Grit, Collaboration: Teachers Share Why Buzzwords Don’t Always Inspire

Edsurge

Rigor This buzzword holds one meaning in education and another beyond classroom walls, and that can make things muddy. This is not what a classroom should be.” Another agreed there’s a connotation of rigidity, stating, “I believe when learning isn’t fun, we are failing at teaching. We certainly don’t need that in our classrooms.”

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

2009): Collaborative learning : Teachers have opportunities to learn in a supportive community that organizes curriculum across grade levels and subjects. When teachers and schools engage in high-quality collaboration, it leads to better achievement gains in math and reading for students.

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Work in progress

Learning with 'e's

Wikis for example, can subvert traditional values such as personal ownership and intellectual property (Richardson, 2006) but community ownership of the content becomes an equalising factor. 2006) Blogs, wikis, podcasts and other powerful web tools for classrooms. In Lave, J. and Chaiklin S. Richardson, W. In Lantole, J. (ed.)

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Nostalgia will NOT get my PhD finished….but it is a nice diversion

Learning Confluence

I have blogged now since 2006… and looking back at February 2008 was quite interesting. Wikispaces is topical right now given the announcement to close – I am still wondering how I can archive 200+ wikis before July… BTW – there is a dead link in the post, the Flat Classroom 2007 wiki is here – [link].

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What you see is what you do

Learning with 'e's

I also published a second post in which I listed 6 ways IWBs could be used to engage learners in the classroom. I outlined some of the strategies that schools could consider to improve the use of IWBs in classrooms, particularly around interactivity, engagement and motivation.

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Experiential Learning Simply Explained

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Experiential learning is one of the key pedagogical concepts that informs the modern philosophy of teaching. Defined by the process of learning through doing, reflection, and active engagement, experiential learning takes learners beyond traditional classroom boundaries, immersing them in real-world scenarios.