Bonding with Tech

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BONDing With Tech: Blended, not Asynchronous

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Welcome

What about you?

Glenda Aguilar

Narrative beings

Amber Emerson

We tell thousands ad thousands of stories. ⅔ of our conversations are stories.

Native Houstonian and a HISD product. Over 10 years in education with a masters in Technology Leadership. Taught 3-8 grades anywhere between Bilingual and ESL.

Proud HoustonISD graduate with a love for all things science and technology. 12th year in education with expertise in 5th grade science and integration of tech.

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Today We Will...

Tech Bond: Blended, Not Asynchronous

Understand the purpose of a blended classroom and common misconceptions.

Shocking. Positively Shocking the Classroom Environment

Explore the classroom structure of a blended classroom through setting routines, procedures, and culture.

I Said-Doesn’t Time Fly When Creating Digital Visuals

Create digital visuals for a blended ready classroom.

Tech Bond: Blended, Not Asynchronous

What is a blended learning classroom?

Blended learning classroom is a holistic approach that promotes high-quality digital content by facilitating a personalized student learning environment. Allowing students to have some control over time, place, path, and/or pace in the way they experience learning.

How comfortable are you with creating a blended learning classroom?

What does a blended learning classroom look like?

Guiding Question: What do you notice about this classroom, what are some things that stand out of the classroom set up?

“The value in blended learning comes from the ability to create student centered lessons that give students opportunities to practice skills they need to develop at their own pace.” Cherly Costello in Education Week Teacher

MisCONceptions about blended learning

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Blended Learning Misconception

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Tech Integration vs. Blended Learning

Shocking. Positively Shocking the Classroom Environment.

Allowing students to have space to feel safe

Start with this “TRICK”

Studies show that “when students feel safe being vulnerable with their classmates, it strengthens their relationships and improves learning outcomes.” - Crystal Frommert

1. Building Classroom Culture

2. Redefining Our Role

Neha Joshi states that blended learning requires MORE interaction between teacher and students. That is why teachers must create an environment that promotes technology use to have active participation lending itself for teachers to cover a wider range of responsibility.

Be vigilant

3. Setting Expectations and Procedures

Research says that the “value of setting classroom expectations has been researched for nearly 60 years and have consistently found that teachers who explicitly teach expectations have students who are: on-task at higher rates, have more prosocial behaviors with peers, and overall are more academically successful than children who have not been systematically taught classroom expectations.” Katharine M. Croce and Jaime S. Salter

I Said-Doesn’t Time Fly When Creating Digital Visuals

Today we...

• Understand the purpose of a blended classroom and common misconceptions. • Explore the classroom structure of a blended classroom through setting routines, procedures, and culture. • Create digital visual for a blended ready classroom.

Thank you!

Ms. Emerson

Ms. Aguilar