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This document discusses blended learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and plans for the future. It summarizes feedback from students, staff, and parents on their experiences with blended learning during the pandemic. Some students, teachers, and courses were better suited to blended learning than others. Moving forward, the focus will be on avoiding abruptly ending blended learning practices, celebrating innovation, and building networks to support more personalized, engaging, and equitable teaching and learning while developing digital skills and resilience for students.
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- 1. Isn’t This Kind of What We Wanted? Blended Learning, COVID and What’s Next Chris Kennedy, Superintendent of Schools West Vancouver September 24, 2021
- 4. We have seen the best and worst of technology in the last 18 months
- 5. HARD TRUTH – we have learned which schools and districts were faking their way in the new world, and which ones were truly invested. The fakers were exposed.
- 7. People prefer things that are easy to think about
- 8. What many want for their children is the benefits of digital learning Relevant, connected, unlimited
- 9. So, how did it go with blended learning? We asked: •Students •Staff •Parents
- 10. For some students . . . . Blended learning works better for some students than others (heck so does face-to-face) and when they can self-select into courses. We saw from the data that we did have a quarter of students that saw blended learning as a net positive.
- 11. For some teachers . . . .
- 12. For some courses . . . . Blended learning works more easily in some content areas than others. Again back to our health rules, it was random this year which classes ended up being blended so we could not go through the thoughtful process of deciding that maybe PE 10 should be face- to-face but Social Studies 11 might work well as a blended course.
- 15. So what are we doing now?
- 16. Avoiding the snap back . . . So the following can flourish: • Ongoing national conversation • Growth of video and social media • High schools are changed forever • Health is a permanent partner • Digitization is FINALLY here • Equity • Learning Outdoors
- 19. Focus on a Few Things
- 21. SHINE A LIGHT ON INNOVATION
- 22. Yeah, but . . . "How do you scale the work?
- 23. YOU DON’T YOU CONNECT AND BUILD NETWORKS Think diffusion not replication
- 25. Towards the Future Improving teaching and learning •Equipping teaches with sound pedagogical and technological knowledge •Supporting more personalized and engaging learning Teaching and learning Building digital resilience •Developing digital competence •Using appropriate digital mediation strategies at home and school Building Providing skills for the future •Developing the higher order thinking and social and emotional skills that a digitized and automated world requires (OECD 2020) Providing
- 26. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Editor's Notes
- We are excited for the fall . . . With the possibilities of transformation greater than at any point this century.
- In some ways it has done everything we always hoped, and in other ways – we met the low expectations of its critics.
- We have seen where there is conference. With devices tools and training.
- If you didn’t have the wires all organized . . . The truth finally came out . . . . .
- People wanted blanket canned plans . . . . For
- Won’t this further divide our students (and teachers) into haves and have-nots? Given that it is unlikely any grand plan will come together to support all students and staff with technology, implementation will be incremental.
- We got close in the spring – need to get over the finish line We should be able to say all students in our province have a reliable internet device and all families have internet access – by getting so close we proved this is possible and it is a must!
- What Does Support Look Like? Now more than ever this is true. There are few rules in a pandemic – it is all new - so let’s celebrate those who are pushing
- It is a time for leaders not just followers. Let’s not get locked into a model – we need many models right nwo
- Tension between formal and informal learning will increase; what matters most is what happens in informal settings – the true learning! This is something we have not reconciled yet.