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| Are you already familiar with Blended Learning? Just starting Blended Learning? Either way, this series will be a rich source of ideas and resources for leveraging social-emotional practices and technology to: 1) build and maintain community, 2) engage all learners, and 3) personalize learning regardless of physical location. Participants will get hands-on opportunities to learn and time to design integrated learning experiences. Learning Outcomes:
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| 4-weeks Participant time: 2 hours per week
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| Session 1 - Setting the Stage for Blended Learning | |||||||||
| The blended environment provides us with an opportunity to redefine the role of the teacher and the students. Teachers have an opportunity to empower students to become more self-directed and collaborative with peers. In this session, participants will:
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| Session 2 - Building and Maintaining Community | |||||||||
| Online community spaces provide educators with more insights into how their students are thinking and engaging with content and one another. Various strategies and tools will be introduced in this session that will be applied within the learning experience. In this session, participants will:
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| Session 3 - Designing Engaging Learning Experiences | |||||||||
| Blended educators nurture individual connections, encourage peer to peer learning, and monitor and motivate learner engagement. This session prepares participants for the pedagogical shift from teaching solely in-person to teaching in blended learning. In this session, participants will:
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| Session 4 - Putting It All Together | |||||||||
| In our last session, we will take the content discovered, discussed, and demonstrated in the previous sessions and bring it all together to create content to be used with your learners and their families. | |||||||||
| Lainie Rowell | |||||||||
| Lainie Rowell is an educator, author, podcaster, and international speaker who specializes in working with other educators to find innovative and sustainable ways to transform teaching and learning. Her areas of expertise include online/blended learning, designing innovative learning experiences, professional learning, and community building. During her 22 years in education, Lainie has taught elementary, secondary, and higher education. She also served in a district-level leadership position supporting 22,000 students and 1,200 teachers at 33 schools. As a consultant, Lainie's client list ranges from Fortune 100 companies like Apple and Google to school districts and independent schools. Lainie is a TEDx Speaker with more than 15 years of experience presenting at local, regional, and international conferences including Building Learning Communities (BLC) and the Leadership 3.0 Symposium. Lainie was a contributor to the 2019 National Standards for Quality Online Teaching and on the 2014 Blended Learning Teacher Competency Framework committee. Since 2014, Lainie has been a consultant for the Orange County Department of Education's Institute for Leadership Development facilitating professional learning for administrators. From 2010-2014, Lainie served as the Program Coordinator for Leading Edge Certification, a national certification program in educational technology and curriculum innovation created by an Alliance of nonprofits, universities and educational agencies. She led the creation and curation of all four certifications, Online and Blended Teacher, Administrator, Digital Educator, and Professional Learning Leader. Lainie is honored to be an Apple Distinguished Educator, Google for Education Certified Trainer, and Google for Education Certified Innovator. She has also been recognized as Teacher of the Year and was featured in OC Family Magazine as one of 10 Teachers Making a Difference. |
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| DATES & TIMES: 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th March 2021 London 6:30 am | Zurich 7:30 am | Dubai 10:30 am | India 12:00 pm | Hong Kong 2:30 pm | Melbourne 5:30 pm Each Session is for 2 hours |
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