Blending Instruction with Technology

A Blueprint for Teachers to Create Unique, Engaging, and Effective Learning Experiences

Michael Martin

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216279808
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Curricula

Blending Instruction with Technology is a book that offers educators guidelines and solutions for implementing blended learning in today's classrooms. There has been a strong push by many communities, schools and educators to move to a 1:1 environment. However, once there…

• How does one teach or facilitate learning in such an environment?
• What are the researched best practices for implementing blended learning in classrooms?
• How do schools provide professional development to teachers to implement best practices in their classroom?
• Regarding the twenty year veteran who just recently mastered email, how do schools provide the proper guidance, training and support for him/her?

This books aims to answer these questions and many more. This book is designed to be a blueprint for preparing staff members to be successful in a 1:1 environment. This book also focuses on providing students with a blended learning lesson that incorporates both cognitive and 21st Century Skills.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Schools and Classrooms Are Becoming Dangerously Irrelevant
• Chapter 2. Blended Learning? Why?
• Chapter 3. Skill versus Tools: The Classic Debate of the Chicken and the Egg
• Chapter 4. Twenty-First-Century Skills and Twenty-First-Century Classrooms
• Chapter 5. Skills Are Important, but Shouldn’t Kids Think? Cognitive Models for Student Achievement
• Chapter 6. Stumbling Down the Right Path
• Chapter 7. ART: A Three-Step Process to Blended Learning
• Chapter 8. The Three-Stage Process to the ART Model of Blended Learning
• Chapter 9. Planning Tips
• Chapter 10. A Word of Caution
• Appendix A: Lesson Plan Template and Explanation
• Appendix B: Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
• Appendix C: Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
• Appendix D: Future Ready Education Environment
• Appendix E: Twenty-First-Century Skills and Digital Tools Crosswalk
• Appendix F :ART Diagnostic Assessment
• Bibliography
• About the Author