Blended Learning
Implementation
Jason Green, Redbird Advanced Learning @jgreenadvc
Thomas Arnett, Clayton Christensen Institute @arnetttom
Tiffany Della Vedova, The Mandell School @teachontheedge
Presentation: http://bit.ly/rbpls15
Agenda
Introductions
Part 1 - Mini-talks
● Disruptive Innovation & Blended Learning - Tom Arnett
● Classroom Models & Practices - Tiffany Della Vedova
● Change Leadership - Jason Green
Part 2 - Blended Learning Station Rotation Workshop
● Disruptive Innovation & Blended Learning - Talk
● Classroom Models & Practices - Tinker
● Change Leadership - Video
An Homage to Blended Learning aka The Joy and
The Pain
Disruptive Innovation
Thomas Arnette
The Christensen Institute
What is disruptive
innovation?
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Disruption in computing
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Sustaining vs. Disruptive Innovation
Perform
ance
Incumbents dominate sustaining battles
Perform
ance
Time
Tim
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Entrants typically win at disruption
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How does disruptive
innovation relate to
education?
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Disruption in education
Self-taught
Learning
Personal Tutoring
Batch-model
Classroom
Disruptive Blended
Learning
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Online learning is enabling the disruption of
traditional models of instruction
Linear S-curve logarithms indicate growing online learning adoption
50% of all high school
courses online by 2019
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Disruption distributes access to nonconsumers
• 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
• Pre-K
• After school
• In the home
• Incarcerated youth
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What are the
implications of this
disruption?
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What is blended
learning?
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The rise of K-12 blended learning
Definition 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,
And at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away
from home.
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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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Models of K−12 blended learning
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Blended Learning Models
Tiffany Della Vedova
Mandell School
Blended Models
=
Recipes for Success
Station Rotation Model
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Lab Rotation
Rotation Station
low student movement
high teacher movement
students on devices
whole group action
personalized practice
student movement at transitions
low teacher movement
high teacher “withitness”
mix of activities (think centers)
small group learning
small group and personalized
practice
Flipped Classroom
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What is the best
use of the Face-toFace time?
Change Leadership
Jason Green
Redbird Advanced Learning
Change Leadership
Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the
organization is transformed – the culture reflects the realities of people working together
every day. – Frances Hesselbein
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in
its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things – Niccolo
Machiavelli
The challenge of self-regulation
The head and the heart
Getting to the tipping point
The role of the leader
Blended Learning Station Rotation Workshop - Poll Everywhere
Part 2 - Blended Learning Station Rotation Workshop
● Group 1: Disruptive Innovation & Blended Learning - Talk
● Group 2: Change Leadership - Video
● Group 3: Classroom Models & Practices - Tinker
Presentation: http://bit.ly/rbpls15
Station 1 - Breakout
Group 1: Disruptive Innovation
& Blended Learning - Talk
Presentation: http://bit.ly/rbpls15
Is blended learning
disruptive?
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Differ
ent
Meas
ure
of
Perfor
manc
e
Perfor
mance
Often industries experience a hybrid stage
Tim
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Tim
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Some models of
blended learning are
hybrids
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Some models are sustaining; others are disruptive
DISRUPTIVE
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Station 2 - Breakout
Group 2: Change Leadership Video
Station 2 - Switch by the Heath Brothers - Video
Station 2 - Group Discussion
Where are you hitting the mark? Where are you struggling?
● Directing the Rider
● Motivating the Elephant
● Shaping the Path
Station 3 - Breakout
Group 3: Classroom Models and
Practice - Tinker
Station 3 - Tinker Breakout
Tinker (PBL, hands-on component of BL)
Topic: Blended models & classroom design
Task:
a. Option 1: Using the physical manipulatives & materials, design a classroom
space you think would be conducive to the rotation model. Include where the
teacher would be, students, and station labels. Take a picture of the design.
BONUS Credit: Use the app ShowMe to explain your design.
b. Option 2: Using this Classroom Architecture tool, create a digital design layout
of your classroom space to allow for rotation model:
http://classroom.4teachers.org/