The Curriculum Design The Landscape Of Education

When the author of this paper began teaching seven years ago, there was a huge push for technology integration into schools. Educators were slowly weaning off of overheads and transparencies as a means to deliver content to their students. Now, many of these “old school” tools have been replaced with interactive whiteboards, one-to-one devices and computers. With the adoption of this technological push, educators are now open to a wider range of educational resources and tools used to educate their students.

The New England Board of Higher Education (n.d.) describes fourteen institutions that have implemented blended programming supporting developmental math. These schools have diverse programs based on their assorted student enrollments, staff, and interventions deemed essential; all incorporated a blending of instruction through utilization of the Khan Academy and their community/technical college. The models include a variety of instructional formats, including flipped classrooms, self-paced study, and traditional instructor-led developmental math courses. These blended courses specifically target college preparatory learning skills with particular courses created for adults returning to school, developmental math, intensive summer two-week college preparation programs, self-paced learning, traditional semester learning, high school/college partnerships, merging with established program

The lessons were created and implanted through our online class system, Canvas. The students learned strategies and perform tasks that related to their classes and assignments. They set goals, planned their time and then reflected on the outcomes. A notebook was used to record their lessons and keep track of their goals. Over the course of the year, students learned to organized their backpacks, plan their study time and learned how to email their teachers. The set personal goals with

Then, teachers must reach goals using diverse methods and techniques which engage the student and make the learning process interesting. Though methods vary, a problem or task centered approach is generally considered superior to a subject matter approach. Students and professors may work together to co-create knowledge. Work in teams is an often used strategy because it replicates the experiences of nontraditional students in the workplace. Additionally, teachers work to reduce time and place restrictions for the nontraditional student that would limit that person’s access to course materials and assignments; asynchronous online options easily break down such barriers.

The key components of disruptive blended learning model is giving students some control over the time, place, path and the pace of their learning. The students’ ability to learn according to their style will help accelerate their learning potential. Instead of teaching to the middle, the students have their own personalize education that helps reach for their potential and still meet the standard of the state’s education. Another key components of disruptive blended learning model are that part of learning happens in supervising, brick-and-mortar location. The technology does not replace the teacher, the teachers are there to help mentor and guide the students on their correct path. By having students been at the location, the teachers can

The concept of flipped classroom has been effective in indicating better results in turning around instruction and teaching in the classroom. The old approaches employed in disseminating teaching in K-12 schools have also proven to be less effective in promoting the realization of better learning experiences and

The inverted classroom – The flipped classroom model began over 15 years ago in higher education and spread to k -12, it allows for more interactive learning in the classroom.

It also explains the theoretical basis for this method that because students have background knowledge from lecture done before class, it gives them class time to explore difficult sections with immediate feedback from instructors and peers. It also pushes students to think about their own learning and allows for more growth in critical thinking. However the most helpful portion of this article is when it details how to effectively use the flipped classroom method in a way that is conducive to student learning. She note that you should provide the opportunity for students to gain first exposure prior to class, provide some incentive or necessity for student to be prepared for class, ad utilize their first exposure, then find a method that works best to access student understanding of the learned material, and last provide in class activities that “focus on higher level cognitive abilities.” In other words, creating activities that foster student using learned information in a way that allows for authentic production in the classroom for feedback opportunities. (Brame,

In this technology savvy era, inventions such as the internet gives educators the ability to post online lectures that are easily accessible on sites like YouTube and are commonly used to teach students lessons in the classroom. Taking it one step further, a man named Salman Khan created a website called Khan Academy. Now students can learn the material at home by watching the video lectures online and attend school to receive help from his or her teachers and peers on the homework. Flipping the classroom will change the educational system in the future by making learning more enjoyable, helpful, and allowing students to improve upon their academic skills and communicate effectively with their fellow classmates and teachers.

Blended learning has been used in my own classroom for various content areas, but not in a workshop approach so I was interested in learning specifics. Authors Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansen understand the challenges of the classroom and offer clear step-by-step solutions to implementing a flipped approach.

These two modules demonstrate components of suggestions made by Ko and Rossen (2017) and Ragan (2017) of the practices that are best used when conducting a blended or online course. Although MIT’s course is described as a blended learning environment, Saylor Academy’s course is solely facilitated online; the two share many similarities and few differences. Besides the contrast of the learning environment each course final assessment of learning competencies is different, i.e. MIT: portfolio submission versus Saylor Academy: password-protected timed final exam. Furthermore, MIT provides students the opportunity to collaborate, discuss, and learn independently as students reflect in blogs about classroom observations and through written assessments. This approach is unlike Saylor Academy’s asynchronous, independent study, knowledge base – through recall approach learning opportunity for students.

The flipped instruction method is therefore an ideal classroom for our type of students. It could also be beneficial

The purpose of this white paper is to present the need, benefits, and feasibility of Blended Classrooms in a mainstream high school to the school board at Anaheim Union High School District for implementation. The use of a blended classroom format is likely to result in higher achievement on high stakes test, give students the opportunity to learn in a technologically rich learning environment, and aid in improving the social climate for students by decreasing the chance and opportunity for bullying as well as improving the students use of time through their own design. In chapter three, a plan for the school district will be introduced to assist the district in the organization and implementation a blended classroom format

Recently with technology becoming the most important aspect of learning in elementary schools, technologies can be a powerful too or resource, which also help meet the needs of the more diverse population. Digital devices, software, programs, and other learning platforms are equally more than capable of entertaining and grabbing those students’ attentions, especially those who are illiterate in specific areas while learning in the classroom. These options are capable of unimaginable ways of learning and experiencing. For example, no student has the same comprehension level when it comes to learning different subjects in the classroom (Herold, 1). In reality, every person is not the same in any way shape or form, and levels of learning are completely different, especially with science, English, social studies, mathematics, art etc. Technology in the classroom allows for each individual student to continue gaining academic strengths and deciphering what they show more interest, motivation, and personal preferences in. Considering society today is much more adaptive and interactive with teachers and students, the implementation is still considered to be a challenge due to budgets for school districts (Herold, 2). The most major issue between teaching classes like Biology and English for childhood elementary classrooms, whether students have disabilities or different comprehension levels of learning, is the blended learning abilities. Together, teachers would have to teach themselves how to adapt to the newer technologies, as well as consider combining their traditional values of educating. Whereas, they would also have to be more accepting to transition with older ways, and explore a new world of how technology can be a positive yet educational tool for their students inside and outside of the classroom

Aaron Sanns and Jonathan Bergman are the first two teachers who use flipped classroom, they provide supplying absent students with an online lecture they could watch from home or from anywhere they had access to a computer and internet including school or local library. They find