The instructional practice of a teacher changes as one becomes more knowledgeable about blended learning tools and strategies. Ultimately, when blended learning becomes integrated into the ongoing culture of a classroom and school in an effective and quality way, then student achievement improves. This webinar focused on the pedagogical changes and ongoing practices of blended learning teachers that facilitate the personalization of student learning.

1. The Pedagogy of Being a
Blended Learning Teacher:
Personalize the Learning
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Robin Gonzalez, President, Zia Learning
Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of Curriculum, Illinois
Virtual School
October 2013

2. Webinar Format
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Introductions
Panel Discussion / Questions
Type your Questions in the chat
At end: Final thoughts from each panel
member

3. Blended Learning
• “a formal education program in which a
student learns at least in part through online
delivery of content and instruction with some
element of student control over time, place,
path, and/or pace and at least in part at a
supervised brick-and-mortar location away
from home…”
- (Horn and Staker, 2013)

4. Tech-rich = blended

5. Teaching and Learning
• What the student is
doing and where the
student is.
 What the teacher is
doing and where the
teacher is.
 What and where the
content is.

6. Webinar Focus
• Blended Learning Teaching
– What is blended learning pedagogy
– How is it different than face-to-face
– What are best practices in blended teaching
– How does blended learning personalize
learning for students and how this looks

7. Today’s Presenters
• Robin Gonzalez, President, Zia
Learning
• Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of
Curriculum, Illinois Virtual School
• Chicago, Ill

8. Defining, implementing and measuring successful
Blended learning programs

9. Teach Thought

11. The three data points of personalized
learning

12. How does blended learning support
personalized learning

13. And what is the teacher’s role?
Facilitate Applied, Authentic, Learning

14. So why facilitate blended learning?
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Students get/deliver information how
THEY want it:
•Web-based reading, writing,
listening
•Images, text, audio, video
•Web conferencing and interactive
options
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Increased engagement
Student opinion data drives lesson
content
Bring in experts, guest speakers, other
students
Connect to global projects (Online
Science Fair, International Energy
Challenge, NASA, Live From the Heart)

15. In an effective blended learning environment:

16. To implement consistently, we must define and train for a
new teaching paradigm:

17. Measuring effectiveness

18. What we’ve seen that works:
• YCCS Charter Schools
• Fully blended
• Adaptive, personalized, digital curriculum
• Focuses on students with significant learning gaps and credit
deficiencies
• FLEX Academies
• Emphasize facilitator approach
• Flexible learning spaces and opportunities
• Chicago Public “Get Inspired” Program
• Leverages cultural and corporate spaces, coupled with online learning
• Provides unique, truly hands-on, applied learning options

19. Access to support
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Trust
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Clear Expectations
Love of Learning

20. What do you need?

21. Resources/Tools
•Learning Management System (Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn,
Canvas, Wikispaces, EdModo)
•Authoring tool (Lectora, Articulate, SoftChalk)
•Audio (Audacity)
•Graphics (Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp)
•Screen Capture (Camtasia, Jing, SnagIt, Screencast-o-matic)
•Assessment (GoogleForms, Questionmark, Hot Potatoes)
•Repositories (SLE, LOR, OER – OpenCourseWare Consortium,
Connexions, Merlot, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Khan Academy, OER
Commons, CreativeCommons, Mathletics, eJourneys, Dropbox)
•Webconferencing/virtual classrooms (Blackboard Collaborate, JoinMe,
AdobeConnect, GotoMeeting, Skype)

22. Checking Student Progress
• Pace Check
• Checklists
• Blogs
• Forums
• Google forms
• Photos, videos
• Web conferencing
• Understanding
• Google Form/online quiz tools
• Application Sharing
• Project sharing

23. Checking Your Progress
SWOT Analysis
Blended Learning Myths
1)It's cheaper
2)It can be used to replace teachers
3)Anyone can do it….right away
4)One doctrine of pedagogy is fine for one district/school
5)You can do this by yourself

24. www.frameworkforblendedlearning.com

25. Other Questions?
• Final Thoughts

26. Contact Info
• Robin Gonzalez, President, Zia Learning rgonzales@zialearning.com
• Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Coordinator of
Curriculum, Illinois Virtual School jkolarburden@gmail.com