Hello. Thank you for joining me today to discuss BYOD, one-to-one classroom environments, and flipped classrooms. Today, we're going to be able to answer the following essential questions.
What are the basic components of blended learning? What are the components of one-to-one learning environments? And what are the components of BYOD learning environments?
Let's get started by reviewing what blended learning is. Remember it's also sometimes called hybrid learning. And it involves the integration of technology with traditional face-to-face instruction. And it uses technology in a purposeful way that is connected to the objectives.
If you remember from the last tutorial where we talked about blended learning, there are six main ways that we can use this in the classroom. One is teacher driver, where the teacher mostly does the instruction and integrates technology in a meaningful way.
The other end of the spectrum is the student driver, where the student is responsible for his or her own learning through an online classroom where they're actually learning at home and getting support from checking in online with a teacher. Between these two extremes are a variety of different ways. And if you need to review those, those can be found on the blended learning tutorial.
So how does this look? This can look like a couple of different ways, especially when blended learning is taking place in the classroom. And that's what our focus is on today.
What is blended learning and look like once in a school setting? The first one that we're going to discuss is one-to-one learning environments. And this is when blended learning takes place in a classroom and there's one device for every student.
These devices can be provided by the school or they can be provided by the parents. Through the provision of devices, students have increased access to learning and resources whenever and wherever. And classrooms with one device for every student, that do not allow students to bring their device home, are considered hybrid or blended classrooms but do not fit within the one-to-one definition.
When you are a school that allows the students to take the devices home, they're considered always learning. And that is a really powerful thing because a lot of times we have economic disparities between students or even between different schools in the same district. And so by a school providing devices for the students to use and allowing them to take them home, we're ensuring that learning is occurring in home and at school. So it really helps with the achievement gap.
Next we have BYOD. And BYOD is a classroom that relies on students to bring their own devices from home. And these could be a smartphone, an iPod, a tablet, or a laptop. And these can actually sometimes be used to supplement devices provided by the school.
So if you're in pretty much any typical school district in America, you might have some classroom computers that you can allow the students to use, or some laptops the students can use, but not one for every student.
When you have a BYOD classroom, some of the students are going to bring their own devices. And that's going to supplement it, which will lead you to a one-to-one learning environment. This actually demands considerable teacher planning, because you have to align objectives to the units across varied devices.
It also relies heavily on open source. And if you're not familiar with that, open source is just a production and development model. And it supports universal access, basically, which means the student who has an iPhone is able to access your material just as easily as a student who's using another device that's maybe not Apple. So teachers who are using BYOD should probably be pretty aware of the limitations of open source and how to use that.
Another challenge of the BYOD classroom is that teachers need to be aware that the types of devices and the number of devices are going to change from student to student, and even from hour to hour.
Next, we have flipped classrooms. They're going to be covered very briefly here. But we will go into the more in depth in a future module. So flipped learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space. And the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creativity in the subject matter.
Let's reflect for a moment. Do you think your school would support a one-to-one or BYOD learning environment? Why? How well can you incorporate a flipped classroom at your school?
So today we were able to talk about what those basic components of blended learning were. Just as a quick review, when blended learning is taking place in your classroom, it's going to look like a BYOD or one-to-one learning environment or a flipped learning environment.
We also talked about what are the components of one-to-one learning environments and what are the components of BYOD learning environments. And not on here, but equally important, we did also discuss what a flipped classroom was. But please keep in mind we'll discuss flipped classrooms more in depth in the future.
To dive a little deeper and learn how to apply this information, be sure to check out the additional resources section associated with this video. This is where you'll find links targeted toward helping you discover more ways to apply this course material. Thank you for joining me, and happy teaching.
Overview
(00:00-00:20) Introduction
(00:21-01:19) Blended Learning Recap
(01:20-02:16) 1:1 Learning Environments
(02:17-03:34) BYOD
(03:35-03:57) Flipped Classroom
(03:58-04:18) Reflection
(04:19-05:05) Conclusion
Top 10 Articles About Flipped Classrooms
In this post on the TalentLMS blog, John Laskaris overviews 10 articles focusing on flipped classrooms. The topics include implementation strategies, research, teacher perspective and student perspective. He has organized the articles by topic. Select the topic that you are most interested in to find specific strategies and related resources.
http://blog.talentlms.com/top-10-articles-flipped-classrooms/
Education Powered by Technology
This white paper outlines the National Education Technology Plans' model of learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. You are able to download the white paper in its entirety as well as watch a video of Secretary Duncan outlining the goals and recommendations.
http://tech.ed.gov/netp/
ConnectED
This site is a USDOE resource providing classroom videos to support the implementation of the National Education Technology Plan. Included on the site are useful planning tools for the models of blended learning. The video playlists are helpful in realizing the plan in action.
http://www.ed.gov/connected