{"id":59,"date":"2014-02-12T00:46:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/?p=59"},"modified":"2014-02-12T00:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:46:25","slug":"flipped-blended-or-personalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/2014\/02\/12\/flipped-blended-or-personalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipped? Blended or Personalized?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I continue to grapple with my role as an educator, I am haunted by my ever present action plan…in which I feel not enough action has taken place. This is not to say that I have not been implementing what I have been learning or experimenting with new ideas or techniques-because I have-there is just so much to learn and apply in an ever changing environment.<\/p>\n

One of the challenges for me is defining my action plan. Is it Personalized Learning? Blended Learning? Or am I creating Flipped Lessons? I can’t tell. And can you really define a lesson as one or the other? So, I am seeking your advice on a recent “lesson”.<\/p>\n

After being inspired by @MrsGanley, I was excited to have my Gr.10 class, edit, revise and peer mark their last set of essays online. Each student went through a series of three edits: a self-edit, an automatically distributed anonymous edit and one of their choice. This provided the students some choice over who they could edit, while still ensuring that everyone received valuable feedback. This also provided me the opportunity to track the changes and evaluate the students on their editing and revision skills. Questions in the edit process included:<\/p>\n

1. Restate the thesis. Is it specific? Arguable?<\/p>\n

2. What is the writer’s plan of action?<\/p>\n

3. How does the author support their thesis?<\/p>\n

4. Does the author provide sufficient support? and is it credible?<\/p>\n

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After they submitted their final copies online, it was my turn to try my hand at editing online. Unlike @MrsGanley, I did not use the screen capture voice over tool to edit (maybe next time-baby steps this time), but I did provide online typed comments that redirected my students to online resources to aid in their understanding and development of the writing process and the correction of common grammatical errors. <\/span><\/p>\n

The editing process took twice as long, but it is my hope (as I embark on my second set of papers) that it will get faster. However, I do believe that the quality of feedback, with embedded links, was much better than my previous hand written comments. As the students follow my embedded links to make corrections to their essays, I find myself asking, is this personalized learning? A flipped lesson? or a form of Blended Learning? Your thoughts and comments would be greatly appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I continue to grapple with my role as an educator, I am haunted by my ever present action plan…in which I feel not enough action has taken place. This is not to say that I have not been implementing what I have been learning or experimenting with new ideas or techniques-because I have-there is … Continue reading “Flipped? Blended or Personalized?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}