Digital Curriculum: A New Frontier

or Our blended learning Journey

(Hint: It’s still not finished)

Friday, January 29, 2016 – 1:15 pm-2:15 pm

Jonathan Olsen, Director of Secondary Education & Jennifer Fano, SuperintendentRandolph Township Schools

Digital Curriculum...

Let’s Define What We’re Talking AboutStudent-Centered Learning

A combination of two ideas: personalized learning & competency-based learning

Personalized Learning

Learning that is tailored to an individual student’s particular needs

Competency-Based Learning

Students must demonstrate mastery of a given subject before moving on to the next one

Blended Learning

The engine that drives student-centered learning--any formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace

Source: Michael B. Horn & Heather Staker Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools

A Presentation Through

Questions

Question #1What is blended learning and what is it not?

Question #2What needs to happen in schools for blended learning to happen?

Infographic Source: “Keeping Pace with K-12 Digital Learning”

Question #3Why can’t we give students more 1-on-1

instruction?

Source: Benjamin Bloom “The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search For Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring”

Conventional: Students learn the subject matter in a class with about 30 students per teacher.

Mastery Learning: Formative tests (the same tests used with the conventional group) are given for purposes of feedback followed by corrective procedures and by parallel formative tests to determine the extent to which the students have mastered the subject matter.

Tutoring: Students learn the subject matter with a good tutor for each student, or for two or three students simultaneously.

Question #4What is the best use of face-to-face class time in today’s classroom?

a course or subject in which students rotate on a fixed schedule or at the teacher’s discretion between learning modalities

a course or subject in which online learning is the backbone of student learning, even if it directs students to offline activities at times

a course that a student takes entirely online to accompany other experiences that the student is having at a brick-and-mortar school or learning center

a course or subject in which students have required face-to-face learning sessions with their teacher of record and then are free to complete their remaining coursework remote from the face-to-face teacher

Source: The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation

Question #5What is the future role of schools?