One of the technologies that I am extremely interested in and have started experimenting with a little in my classroom is blended learning. Last summer, one of my teaching partners and I were talking about a new strategy she had heard about at a conference called "flipping" your classroom. As educators, I think we need to try to incorporate more technology and change our methods to reflect our world today. This led us to want to experiment with a blended learning classroom.
Within my high school math classroom, I have found blended learning to be a feasible method that can work to help me teach my content. This allows my students to receive the lesson through video (either on your webpage, blog, etc) and then when they are in the classroom we are working on engaging activities, group work, and problem solving all while having the benefit of the teacher being present. This allows for these the students to be communicating with each other, working collaboratively amongst each other and with me, and allows for more one on one attention and guidance through struggles. I believe blended learning could be used within all classrooms, and this strategy seemed most useful for what I was trying to work towards within my math class. Our school, is making strides towards hybrid and virtual classes within the high school and to me, blended learning was a great way to start to move my classroom towards a more technology based class.
Within my math classroom, I think that an RSS feed would be hardest for me to use. I am not sure what type of web content we would necessarily subscribe to for math content to be fed directly to my students. However, I think that there is always reason to try and find more technologies and ways to incorporate these technologies within my classroom.
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