The
Cultivation of Personalized & Blended Learning
What we know, as we continue to
grow:
1.
All school
players must be onboard, they’re the soil
2.
Infrastructure,
the roots
3.
Devices, the
stem
4.
Digital
Content, the water
5.
Teacher
planning and facilitation, the sun
6.
Student
motivation and individualized learning paths, the oxygen
*Important instruction:
The
blended learning lead must wear pruning gloves, for the garden requires
constant and consistent tending amidst the multiple thorns that persistently exist.
What we have:
· A collective faculty belief that individualizing
learning paths, for attainment of student learning potential, is optimum.
· Teaching practices that weigh heavier on the
side of teacher-driven instruction, rather than on student-centered/data-driven
learning.
· Continual time challenges thwarting teacher/student
checks and balances of individualized learning paths and fundamental collaborative
communication concerning the care and maintenance of blended/personalized
learning paths.
· Deficient devices
· Differentiated digital content meeting the
needs for remediation and acceleration.
· New award winning digital content with
limited upfront time to master implementation and utilization.
What we still want:
· All hands and minds cultivating the soil and
committing to the growth of personalized & blended learning.
· A technological infrastructure that remains firmly
rooted.
· Devices that withstand the wind of change and
the frequent use, and possible abuse, of users.
· Digital content that flows into young minds,
and seamlessly elevates skill levels, while providing teachers with clear-cut
and easily accessible data with which to target direct instruction.
· Teachers who plan precisely, according to the
individual learning paths of each of their students.
· Students, who, develop the tools with which to
understand themselves as scholars, are empowered through development of their
learning paths and are intrinsically rewarded for navigating and persevering
through the thickets of essential skills.
· Collective time to plan for the future, to
understand the present and to reflect on the machinations of the past.
