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Architect Dynamic Blended Learning Lessons with Your Adopted Curriculum

Catlin Tucker

Consider the last time you used a recipe to bake something, for example, a chocolate cake. Blended learning merges active, engaged learning online with active, engaged learning offline, giving students more control over the when, where, and how of their learning journey.

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Revisiting Blended Learning Principles, With School Plans in Limbo

Edsurge

For the better part of a decade, many schools have been implementing blended learning models that integrate online learning with brick-and-mortar instruction to rethink time, space and staffing. The scheduling scenarios that schools are having to work through ought not to be mere logistical planning exercises to limit headcount.

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100th Day of School — It’s about Learning

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How to celebrate Here are activities I like that blend learning into the celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography As a class, come up with two locations in each state, to total 100. Students can engage in various counting exercises related to the number 100. Have students do ten sets of ten different exercises (i.e.,

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3 Reasons Teachers Should Use the Playlist Model

Catlin Tucker

Concept Reinforcement: Review and reinforce challenging concepts, using different explanations and examples to aid understanding. Language Practice: Engage students in conversation practice, pronunciation exercises, or grammar activities.

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Designing a Standards-aligned Choice Board (with AI)

Catlin Tucker

Below is an example of a prompt I put into ChatGPT to help me generate ideas for a standards-aligned choice board for a third-grade math class, focusing on the standard strand 3.0A, “Operations and Algebraic Thinking.” Can you provide an example of a math game that involves multiplication or division?

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Book Spotlight: Power Up Blended Learning

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Digital learning coaching has been weighing heavily on my mind. Kentucky's Digital Learning Coaches had their first official conference last month (virtual of course). Tucker 's Power Up Blended Learning: A Professional Learning Infrastructure to Support Sustainable Change. Explain It, See It, Discuss It, Try It.

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3 Ways to Build Student Agency into Your Lessons

Catlin Tucker

If they are invited to tailor the learning to their interests, decide how to approach a problem, or determine what they will create, it makes them feel valued as individual learners. It also has the advantage of getting more students to lean into the learning happening in the classroom.