Blending Instruction with Technology

A Blueprint for Teachers to Create Unique, Engaging, and Effective Learning Experiences

By (author) Michael Martin

Publication date:

21 July 2016

Length of book:

142 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475827002

Blending Instruction with Technology is a book that offers educators guidelines and solutions for implementing blended learning in today’s classrooms. There has been a strong push by many communities, schools and educators to move to a 1:1 environment. However, once there…

• How does one teach or facilitate learning in such an environment?
• What are the researched best practices for implementing blended learning in classrooms?
• How do schools provide professional development to teachers to implement best practices in their classroom?
• Regarding the twenty year veteran who just recently mastered email, how do schools provide the proper guidance, training and support for him/her?

This books aims to answer these questions and many more. This book is designed to be a blueprint for preparing staff members to be successful in a 1:1 environment. This book also focuses on providing students with a blended learning lesson that incorporates both cognitive and 21st Century Skills.

Epigraph
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Schools & Classrooms are Becoming Dangerously Irrelevant
Chapter 2: Blended Learning…? Why?
Chapter 3: Skill vs. Tool: The Classic Debate of the Chicken and the Egg
Chapter 4: 21^st Century Skills and 21st Century Classrooms
Chapter 5: Skills are Important, but Shouldn’t Kids Think? Cognitive Models for Student Achievement
Chapter 6: Stumbling Down the Right Path
Chapter 7: A.R.T.: A Three-Step Process to Blended Learning
Chapter 8: The Three-Stage Process to The A.R.T. Model of Blended Learning
Chapter 9: Planning Tips
Chapter 10: A Word of Caution
Appendix A: Lesson Plan Template
Appendix B: Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
Appendix C: Webb’s Depth of Knowledge
Appendix D: Future Ready Schools
Appendix E: 21st Century Skills and Digital Tool Crosswalk
Appendix F: A.R.T. Diagnostic Assessment
About the Author

I believe that Dr. Martin hits on key components of why it is necessary to better utilize technology within the schools. He makes it a point that we as educators and a learning community need to stay current with the advancement of technology in order to benefit our children and young adults’ education in today's world.