Why blended learning works

1. Opening Question:
What is one activity that you do / have done /
have seen done where students are engaged
in the learning process?
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2. Definitions of Blended Learning:
Heather Staker, Innosight Institute: “Blended learning is any time
a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar
location away from home and at least in part through online delivery
with some element of student control over
time, place, path, and/or pace.”

3. Station-rotation
model, KIPP LA
Empower Academy
Flex model, San Francisc
Flex Academy
From: “Classifying K-12 Blended Learning”, Heather Staker and Michael B. Horn,
Innosight Institute, 2012

4. Definitions of Blended Learning:
Catlin Tucker, teacher and blogger: “…A formal education
program in which a student is engaged in active learning at least in part
online where they have some control over the time, place, and/or pace
and in part at a brick and mortar location away from home.”

5. What is Blended Learning?
Teacherexpertise
Students’ innatecuriosity
F2F environment
Online Tools
Patience / open-
mindedness
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Engaging
Efficient
Effective

6. Teacher
inputs:
Content-specific
knowledge
Role-modeling
Feedback and
Assessment
Social Inputs:
Parental knowledge
Peer knowledge
Role -modeling
Social media
Other media
Foundational Inputs:
Biological factors
Psychological factors
Knowledge through reflection

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14. You find a desperate chemistry teacher who is willing to buy aqueous
solutions of NaOH for $5 a liter, as long as the solution has a pH of at least
10.50 (more basic is ok, less basic is not). You have 225 mL of NaOH solution
with a pH of 12.10, and access to free water and a stirring rod.
a) How much water do you add to your original base solution to maximize your
profits?
b) What is the most money you can hope to make in this scenario?
15. Alfie mixes equal volumes of two LiOH solutions, one with pH = 8.0 and the
other with pH = 11.0. What is the pH of the resulting solution?
16. Find the pH of a solution made by adding 55.0 mL of 0.0030 M HCl to 9.0
mL of 0.020 M HNO3.
17. How many grams of Ba(OH)2 are needed to make 395 mL of pH 10.38
solution?
18. HF is a poisonous weak acid that has historically been used to etch glass.
It has a Ka= 7.2 x 10-4. What is the pH of a 0.020 M solution of HF?

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What did you see in the video that is similar to what you might see
in a brick-and-mortar classroom assignment?
What did you see that is different?

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18. Light and
Vision
Friction
Circular
Motion
Work, Energy, and
Power
Angular
Momentum

19. Students learn about light,
reflection, and refraction by
conducting an analysis of
different safety mirrors and
reflectors
Students analyze
different tire treads
and skid marks to
learn about friction.
Students learn about
circular motion by
building a wheel
Students learn about work, energy, and
power through an in-depth examination of
and construction of a bicycle drivetrain.
Students learn about
angular momentum and
how it pertains to
braking.

20. Inquiry and
Experimentation: How
much more energy must a
cyclist exert if she rides 300m
with two stop signs than a
cyclist riding the same
distance in the same amount
of time with no stop signs?
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21. Project Learning:
What factors make bicycling
accidents more likely at
certain intersections than
others? Students can analyze
electronic data and engineer
a bicycling safety device
based on their analysis.
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22. Service Learning:
Students can devise service
projects: building bicycles
from spare parts, and
donating them to local bike
charities; or teaching bicycle
maintenance to other
students.
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