2. Who Are We?
Emily Schmidt
Rebecca Phillips
Emily.Schmidt@cabarrus.k12.nc.us
Rebecca.Phillips@cabarrus.k12.nc.us
3. Agenda
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Who Are We?
What is Blended Learning?
Why Blended Learning?
What do you need to have in a successful blended
learning classroom?
What does an elementary level blended learning
classroom look like?
Our Experiences with Blended Learning
First Steps to Building Your Own Blended Classroom
Resources
What Our Students Think
4. What is Blended Learning?
• Blended learning is a hybrid way of learning
• Combines small group instruction with the teacher and
personalized instruction on a computer/tablet
• Uses adaptive technology
• Blended learning allows students to control the pace and
content of their own instruction.
5. Blended learning combines traditional direct instruction
from the teacher and instruction and practice on a
computer/tablet
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BLENDED LEARNING
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7. “Technology is not a teacher even with the best software, the
technology is not the
professional in the room.”
-Talbot Bielefeldt, ISTE Senior Research Associate
8. What do you need to have in a
successful blended learning
classroom?
16. What does an elementary level
blended learning classroom look
like?
17. Elementary Blended
Learning Classroom
• There are several models of blended
learning.
• In our classes, we use a
station-rotation model.
• If you are already teaching using the
workshop model, you are only a step away
from creating a blended learning
classroom.
24. Student Experience with
Technology
Helpful Hint
Keep in mind what
technology students have
access to at home. Not
every student will have
access to a computer,
tablet, and/or smartphone at
home.
27. Computers versus Tablets
Helpful Hint
If you have a choice
between computers and
tablets, ask yourself:
“What is my purpose for
using the technology?”
35. What Our Students Think
“We use technology everyday. If it’s
iPads, computers, or the
SMARTBoard, it counts. I like this
school because the teachers tell us
to never give up and do what’s right
for you.”
-Samay, 2nd Grade Student
“The best thing that I like about
Coltrane-Webb is that we get to use
lots of technology. On the
computers, we use websites like
Dreambox and Sumdog for math,
RAZ-Kids for reading and Pebble-Go
in Science and Social Studies.”
~Tealy, 2nd Grade Student
“In my class, we use Dreambox.
Dreambox is for math. I like it because
you’re learning, but you’re having fun and
if you get stuck, they help you out.”
~Amelia, 2nd Grade Student
“We are a lucky school to have all of this
technology.”
~Ben, 2nd Grade Student
We use technology to teach us math and
reading and typing and lots more. We
use the laptops and iPads each and
every day. The students learn a lot at
this school.”
~Charlotte, 2nd Grade Student
Notas do Editor
We are 2nd Grade Teachers at Coltrane Webb STEM Elementary SchoolWe are not experts, but this year we took the first steps toward creating blended learning classrooms.We are not here to promote specific programs that we use, but rather to show how we have transformed our classrooms.
The groups should be flexible and based on student data.