This is where it all begins....
My Innovation Plan for Blended Learning
Blended learning, as defined by Horn & Staker (2017), includes the following three parts: it is an educational program where students have some control of their learning (in an online method), the students learn part of their time away from home, and all modalities of learning are connected within the curriculum. This is the disruptive innovation that I chose to do for my Applied Digital Learning master's degree through Lamar University. I plan to implement blended learning into my classroom by the end of the school year with the intentions of sharing with the other teachers in my school with the hopes of school-wide interest that could lead to use campus-wide!
I am beyond excited to start this new chapter in my teaching career. I cannot wait to do more research about blended learning. I want to find out more about the origins of it, how it became popular, how it can help my students, all of the challenges that might arise from implementing it. I want to learn about all of the fun ways to use blended learning in my classroom such as project-based learning and makerspace. I am full of anticipation to start using blended learning in my classroom and see how much growth my students show. I'm even excited to see my fails as well as my success. Often you learn more from your failures than you do from your successes
I have written a letter (an innovation proposal) to my school principal asking for her to allow me the opportunity to pilot a blended learning component to classroom I cannot wait for her to read my proposal because she is easy to talk to and she is receptive to new innovative ideas.
I have completed a literature review that anyone can access by clicking here: Literature Review. There are journal articles, websites, and books that I have reviewed to help me in my journey of learning more about blended learning and how I can start it in my classroom.
Teacher-led classrooms are a thing of the past. The future of learning needs to be more student centered, more open ended, and more engaging. One way to help these to come alive is to implement blended learning to the everyday classroom. I created an implementation outline that maps out the various phases my blended learning journey to implementation will follow. This document will be a live document that will be ever changing throughout my quest for this degree.
Teacher-led classrooms are a thing of the past. The future of learning needs to be more student centered, more open ended, and more engaging. One way to help these to come alive is to implement blended learning to the everyday classroom. I created an implementation outline that maps out the various phases my blended learning journey to implementation will follow. This document will be a live document that will be ever changing throughout my quest for this degree. Read the document to the left for my
implementation outline.
There is so much more research to do. Look here to
see what journal articles or books that I found
interesting and plan to use in future research for
my innovation plan.
Join me in my blended learning journey!
Horn, M., & Staker, H. B. (2017). Blended: Using disruptive innovation to improve schools. Wiley.