1. WestShore Centre
Blended Learning
Implementing 21st Century Skills
Dal Little
Distributed and Blended Learning Support
Sooke School District

2. EDUCATIONAL CHANGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9J4-6NX4e0
Belmont Secondary School – Biology 12 Video

3. OVERVIEW
Blended Learning Perspective:
• is the convergence of online and face-to-face education
• a model to implement 21st Century learning & education.
• personalizes learning by choosing time, place and pace
• increases learning self-efficacy
• offers classroom time for relationship building
• offers one-to-one instruction, as needed
• grade 8-12 online courses, customizable by teachers
• Internet access is required

4. BC Ministry of Education 2010
The Plan’s Five Points
1. Personalized Learning
2. Quality teaching and learning
3. Flexibility and choice
4. High standards
5. Learning empowered by technology
Goal:
“This Plan will give students, families and educators more say on
how, where, when and what students will learn.”
BC’S EDUCATION PLAN

5. BC’S EDUCATION PLAN
How?

6. WHAT WE ARE GOING
TO LEARN TODAY
Definition and Description of:
• Informational Technology - Educational Technology
• Impact of Internet / New Technology
• Blended Learning
• Learning Management System (LMS) – Blackboard Learn

7. COMMUNITY BUILDING:
TECHNOLOGY DEFINITIONS
Information Technology (IT)
・ is the use of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve,
transmit and manipulate data. - Wikipedia
Role:
・Computer Hardware & Software ・ Email Accounts ・ Internet Access
・Ensure users ability to access district network services and Internet
Educational Technology (Ed Tech)
・ is the theory and practice of design, development, and evaluation of
processes
and resources for learning and developing human capability. - WikipediaRole:
・Instructional Design & Development for online & paper-based learning materials
・Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate courses
・Ensure user-centered design for intuitive navigation and engaged learning

8. TECHNOLOGY ROLES

9. OUR CHALLENGE
The Internet and New Technology
• Constantly changing “How we do daily life”
Shopping, Banking, Communication, Jobs, Education
• Technology smaller, cheaper and more powerful
Digital immigrant – Digital natives
• Impact of today is ubiquitous access
Coffee Shops, Schools, Restaurants, Walmart, Langford City
• Education is changing as a result, mostly better
Google Glasses
Interactive Laser-optical display

10. INTERNET AND NEW TECHNOLOGY
Imagine – How will Education change?
Students, teachers, parents, and administrators interacting
online and within a face-to-face classrooms.
What might this 21st Century class (i.e. 2023) look like?
• Accessing educational programs using “Google’s Glasses”
• Personalized Learning Culture
• Students Directing, Teachers Facilitating, the “Guide on the Side”
As we consider building future educational opportunities
in SD 62, the direction should expand into Blended Learning
models

11. BLENDED LEARNING
Blended Learning
- Convergence of Face-to-Face and
Online Education
1. LMS – i.e. Blackboard Learn
(Content Delivery and Assessment
Tracking, Reporting, Parent Access)
2. Class time is one-to-one instruction,
relationship building, group interaction
and inquiry-based lessons
3. Pre-developed online courses, customizable
4. Requires computer technology and Internet access

12. CENTURIES OF
BLENDED LEARNING

13. 21ST CENTURY
BLENDED LEARNING

14. BLENDED LEARNING
- THREE PROGRAM DOMAINS
Time - When
• When students access course information.
• They can choose. Busy athletes who travel.
Proximity – Physical Distance from teacher
• Schedule for attending class based on personal need
• Relationship with teacher
Pace – How learning proceeds
• Lessons, assignments and assessments online
• Negotiate how learning will occurs for each student
• Class time - Hands-on, Questions, Teacher Interactions
Change in Educational Program Delivery

15. CHANGING ROLES
Students
• Become more active in directing their education
• Gain more responsibility and ownership for their learning
Parents
• Learn to access to child’s progress online
• See assignments, assessments, marks
Teachers
• Facilitate personalized learning and guide activities – Pedagogical Shift
• Control for learning shifts more to students – Student Centric
School Administrators
• Flexibility – Harder to set “One size fits all”
• Policies to support Choice, Personalized & Student Centric learning
• Minimize costs – Reduced textbook and paper

16. HERE’S HOW WE
USE BLACKBOARD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COcNgTZLLZo
Course Sampling Video

17. THANK YOU
Thank you for your attention.
• Dal Little
• Paul Block
WestShore Centre
When students perceive technology as a luxury or
extra,
- they play with it.
When students perceive technology as a learning tool,
- they own their learning with it.