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A Blended School: Vision for the Future of Education

A Blended School: Vision for the Future of Education. Celeste Over Future of Education: EDU 505.91. Sage Park Middle School. Sage Park Middle School. Racially diverse School in suburban community Wide ranging activities including academic and extracurricular

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A Blended School: Vision for the Future of Education

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  1. A Blended School: Vision for the Future of Education Celeste Over Future of Education: EDU 505.91

  2. Sage Park Middle School

  3. Sage Park Middle School • Racially diverse School in suburban community • Wide ranging activities including academic and extracurricular • Declining enrollment and achievement • Increasing suspensions and retentions rates • Struggling with the implementations of relevant technology

  4. Sage Park Middle School con’t • Implemented PBIS program • Junior National Honor Society • Challenge program for academically gifted students • Piloting of the measure of academic performance computerized test

  5. Trends in Education

  6. Technology Trends • Peer to peer dissemination of innovative ideas increases access to quality education and provides collaborative and affordable PD for teachers. • Students are verse in the use of technology including Mobile Apps.

  7. Economic & Demographic trends • Tuition increases facilitated the need for alternatives in presenting college courses • Adult learners are embracing online learning in an effort to advance their careers • Minority students are labeled special education because of underachievement

  8. Futuring • Futuring examines where an organization is now, where it will be in the future and uses specific tools to detail a plan to get there. • Futuring includes important steps such as scanning and monitoring the environment, analyzing internal and external assumptions, and creating scenarios around emerging issues

  9. Scanning • Scanning involves looking at an organization internally and externally to identify technological, economical, and social issues. • Scanning provides data which can be used to build scenarios, forecasts, and eventually lead to improvements within organizations.

  10. Scenarios • Scenarios are strategic plans that is developed from scanning and monitoring environments. • The purpose of scenarios is to create images on how the future of an organization might evolve over time.

  11. Step 1: Identify a focus or important issue one important to the mission of the organization Step 2: Scan and monitor the situation. Look internally and externally to identify for data to inform scenario building Step 6: Implement plan and monitor progress and continue to use futuring to inform the direction of the organization Step 3: build a scenario. A picture of a desired future. Step 5: Create a plan to gap the bridge from where the organization is and where it would like to be. Step 4: identify strategic options, innovations and new services.

  12. A blended class environment • A hybrid model of online and traditional instruction • Includes traditional whole group instruction, peer tutoring, online practice • Students achieve at higher rates than those in traditional classes • Financially feasible

  13. Advantages: Blended environment • Variety of learning options for all students • Reduces cost of resources with the use of downloadable text books • Integrates technology with learning • Differentiates lessons • Puts students in control of their learning pace

  14. Challenges: Blended Environment • Accessing appropriate and engaging lessons • High start up costs • Unfamiliarity of teachers to this teaching style • Unfamiliarity of students with online learning • Students readiness and motivation

  15. Preparation and Implementation • Budgetary constraints • Need to purchase district wide management system • Professional development for teachers • Educate Shareholders

  16. Call to Action • Formation of a committee • Secure finance to realize vision • Implement a pilot program • Partner with that have successful programs

  17. References: • Analysis of emerging trends affecting the use of technology in education. (2008). Leading • next generation of learning. • Ashby, J., McNary, S., & Sadera, W. (2011). Comparing student success between • developmental math courses online, blended, and face-to-face. Journal of Interactive • Online Learning 10(3).   • Bakia, M., Jones, K., Means, B., Murphy, R., & Toyama, Y., (2012). Evaluation of Evidence • Based Practice in Online Learning. U. S. Department of Education. • Barbour, M.,& Plough, C. (2102, June). Odyssey of the Mind: Social Networking in • Cyberschool. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, • 13(3). • Betts, K., Hartman, K., & Oxholm III, C. (2009). Re-examining& repositioning higher education • Twenty economic and blended program enrollments. Journal of Asychronous Learning • Networks, 13(4), 3-23. • Crompton, H. (2011). Mathematics in the Age of Technology: There is a Place for • Technology in the Mathematics Classroom. Journal of Research Center for • Educational Technology 7(1), 54-66. • Francis, R. (2012). Engaged: Making Large Classes Feel Small Through Blended • Learning Instructional Strategies That Promote Increased Student Performance. • Journal of College Teaching & Learning 9(2).

  18. References: • Good, D. (1999). Future Trends Affecting Education. Education Commission of the States. • Johnson, L. Adams, S. & Cummins, M. (2012). The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher • Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. • Kamei-Hannan, C. (2008, May). Examining the accessibility of a computerized • adapted test using assistive technology. Journal of Visual & Blindness 102(5). • Moorcroft, R. (2007, May). The art of the clairvoyant. British Journal of Administrative • Management, p 4-5. • Sobrero, P. (2004, June). The Steps for Futuring. Journal of Extension, 42(3). • Yates, J. (2008). Demographic Imperatives for Educational Reform for Culturally and • Linguistically Diverse Students. Multiple Voices for Ethically Diverse Exceptional • Learners, 11(1), 2008, 4-12

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