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Blended Learning: What It Is and What It Is Not – Dr. Catlin Tucker

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The pandemic has elevated the phrase “blended learning.” When schools closed or shifted to hybrid schedules, many institutions turned to blended learning to navigate the new demands placed on teachers and educational institutions. As an outspoken advocate for blended learning over the last 10 years,…

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The clear definition for everyone to see

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The clear definition for everyone to see

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Blended learning is active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline to give students more control over the time, place, pace, and path of their learning.

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In a blended learning environment, the students are doing the thinking, discussing, making, questioning, exploring, collaborating, and reflecting.

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One takeaway is that it builds a dynamic skill set and lets the students have their own pace with learning.

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I like how they use driver as the word to describe who is in charge of doing what

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Students are more easily able to work at their own pace.

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One benefit of blended learning is that teachers are able to differentiate more consistently and effectively.

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I found it interesting how blended learning requires a whole environment and attitude. It is not good enough to simply have technology in the classroom, but the teacher must take a posture of teamwork with the students to allow them that agency.

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I found it interesting how blended learning requires a whole environment and attitude. It is not good enough to simply have technology in the classroom, but the teacher must take a posture of teamwork with the students to allow them that agency.

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One takeaway is that blended learning is a way to allow for differentiation and student choice in the classroom.

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One takeaway is that blended learning helps students take control of their own learning and allows them to work at their own pace.

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Blended learning is an effective way to establish differentiation in the classroom

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The students should be doing the heavy cognitive lift of MAKING MEANING. One tool does not solve a problem!!

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Using tech in the classroom ≠ blended learning

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Using tech in the classroom ≠ blended learning

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“A technology-rich classroom does not equate to blended learning. Every student can have a device and still not control any aspect of their learning experience”

Give students some stake in their learning.

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It is important to recognize that just because you are using technology in the classroom it does not mean it is being utilized in the correct way.

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I like the idea of blended learning because it puts the student in control and it allows for differentiation in a way other teaching strategies don't.

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One takeaway from the article is that the pace of learning is shifted to the students control.

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My favorite part of the article was the emphasis on the students being more heavily involved in their own learning and in their own pace. Some students are slower at learning than others, but it doesn't mean that they are not learning at all.