Wednesday afternoon a Bancroft-Rosalie Blended Learning team attended a workshop presented by Marcia Kish, a highly respected Blended Learning facilitator.The B-R team included Kyle Elsasser, Rebecca James, and Bev Zwygart.
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| Marcia Kish |
Thursday morning I had the opportunity to hear a presentation by Project Tomorrow Chief Executive Officer Julie Evans on what research is telling us about Digital Learning across the United States. These key trends are very different from the way education has been viewed traditionally. Project Tomorrow has been compiling research on Digital learning since 2003.
One interesting piece of information that came from a pilot program in Colorado- parents viewed as paraprofessionals. This means that schools communicate with parents on how parents can serve as "online coaches" for their children, assisting with their child's education at home. I believe we have started addressing this, sending information to elementary parents about programs we are using- XtraMath and IXL. But this is an area that we can improve, developing some guidelines/expectations for online homework.
One interesting piece of information that came from a pilot program in Colorado- parents viewed as paraprofessionals. This means that schools communicate with parents on how parents can serve as "online coaches" for their children, assisting with their child's education at home. I believe we have started addressing this, sending information to elementary parents about programs we are using- XtraMath and IXL. But this is an area that we can improve, developing some guidelines/expectations for online homework.
