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Silicon Schools Fund and the Clayton Christensen Institute have teamed up to provide insight and guidance on delivering high-quality blended learning. Learn more about how to personalize K-12 education for all students by combining the best of traditional schools with the transformative power of online learning. 
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"Getty “Polynomial functions!” “Trig identities!” “How about the properties? Commutative, associative, distributive.” So unfolded a laundry list of what a group of math teachers considered the more painful and less necessary concepts covered in the average high school math curriculum.
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post explores what might happen to math teaching if it were re-visioned. Rather than all math being taught in "math classes" some components would be covered through chemistry, biology or other courses, providing the opportunity for math to be more inquiry based. A goal of this suggested approach is to "streamline a high school student’s general math experience, and empower and encourage them to learn additional math skills to solve real-world problems of their own interest."
Mr. Jordan DHS math's curator insight,
June 11, 2015 9:31 AM
This is an awesome thought provoking article!
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Got 13 minutes? Watch this video from Michael Pershan. There has been quite a bit of media about Khan Academy and this post takes a look at how mathematics is taught in other countries. When you compare the teaching of math in Japan to the teaching of math in the U.S. it is very different. The video explores "what the Khan Academy would like like if it came from Japan." Scott McLeod also bring up Dan Meyer (and links to his blog). If you would like to see more of the TIMMS videos (that are referenced in this video) go to http://nces.ed.gov/timss/video.asp.
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Through dozens of cool, student-made videos, MIT+K12 is bringing the brainpower of college students to kids as young as kindergarten.
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This post explores the flipped classroom providing a wide range of resources - links to many articles, videos, and images (including a SlideShare)that helps to gain a better understanding of a flipped classroom. Gerstein's summary states: "The Flipped Classroom offers a great use of technology - especially if it gets lecture out of the classrooms and into the hands and control of the learners. As it is being discussed, it is part of a larger picture of teaching and learning. The Flipped Classroom videos have a place in the models and cycles of learning proposed by educational psychologists and instructional designers. Providing educators with a full framework of how the Flipped Classroom can be used in their educational settings will increase its validity for educators and their administrators."
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At least 36 schools nationwide are combining teacher-led lessons with computer-based lectures and exercises using a software program based on Salman Khan’s popular YouTube lessons.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
The March 2013 issue of Educational Leadership is focused on “Technology-Rich Learning.” There are a number of articles that are available on the site that you might be interested in reading. A list of some is below: * "Students First, Not Stuff" by Will Richardson discusses how "technologies reframe learning, but educators reimagine schooling." * "Our Brains Extended" by Mark Prensky discusses "What will humans do with their new enhanced capabilities?" * "A Bold New Math Class" by Salman Khan and Elizabeth Slavitt discusses how "Khan Academy offers a student-centric, self-paced learning model." * "New Literacies and the Common Core" by William Kist discusses "Strategies for learning the fundamentals of reading, writing, and comprehending in the information age." To go directly to the page of these articles (and others): http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar13/vol70/num06/toc.aspx ;
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If you are looking for free and open source materials one great place to check out periodically is Open Culture. Richard Bryne shared that "they launched a new collection of more than 200 free video lessons, apps, ebooks, and website for K-12students and teachers...which includes...items that were new to me...like this Shakespeare app and this Google Earth for science teacher resource." Links to a number of resources are embedded in his post.
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Whether you're 8 or 88, you can learn something new on the web. And this post shares 8 sources which will help you learn, from CodeAcademy to SkillShare to iTunes University and more. These sites are not just for adult learners...many of our students may benefit from them. This is a "shortlist of the best alternatives to traditional education that are currently on the market" according to Mashable.
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"Everyone is talking about a digital curriculum free of those hard copy textbooks that have been a part of schooling since the advent of the one room schoolhouse. This is the second post in a series devoted to investigating resources that can open up a world of digital curricula." This post provides links to a variety of sites that provide alternatives to printed textbooks. Video lessons, searchable databases, full courses, interactive resources...you will find a wide variety of resources as you explore these 8 sites.
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From Harvard EdCast's "The Celebrity Math Tutor" (transcript below)
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"In the very foreseeable future, teachers will be able to upload their own videos to the Khan Academy, but also be able to create their own “knowledge maps” or repositories of content for their classes, using videos – within or outside of the Khan Academy – and all of Khan’s analytics, and reporting tools, in order to customize their own curricula."
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Are you interested in learning how to create and deliver a blended learning course? To learn about the four types of blended learning? This free online course offered through the Silicon Schools Fund, the Clayton Christensen Institute and Khan Academy is worth checking out. They have created an online course that is self-paced and includes the following areas:
* Introduction to Blended Learning
* Creating the Ideal Student Experience in a Blended Classroom
* Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment - Rethinking the Role of the Teacher
* Redesigning a School Towards Blended Learning
* Making Aligned Hardware, Software, and Space Decisions in a Blended Learning Environment
Each section has a number of videos and you may choose to participate in a discussion. If you are interested in learning more about blended learning this course may provide insights to increase your understanding and move you towards planning a blended learning class.