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Teaching in Beta

My colleagues, Kelli Hixon and Stacey Schuh, regularly facilitate blended learning regional events across the state. In most cases, they’ve partnered up with intermediate school districts (ISD’s) throughout the state to help host and promote...

LEGO Stormtrooprs

The Force Awakens Your Classroom

The blended learning team challenged their colleague, David Young (Instructional Design Manager at Michigan Virtual), to channel his excitement for the release of the new Star Wars film into a guest blog post about blended...

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The All Too Often Neglected Teacher Superpower

Throughout my childhood, I had teachers I connected with in a way I will never forget, while others have faded in my memories. What is the extra “something” those teachers possess? I think I’ve finally...
Girl under covers, looking at camera.

Change, The Monster Lurking Under your Blended Learning Bed

Change is not always easy for me. Ok, it is never easy for me. I dread the unknown, funny since a major part of my job is to support changes in education. Every day I...

Angela Mellott

Celebrating student learning at Brandywine

Exploring a blended learning project from start to finish....
Dingy old book

Is Blended Learning a Fairy Tale?

  In Michael Horn (@michaelbhorn) and Heather Staker’s (@hstaker) new book “Blended,” blended learning implementation is examined and discussed. As the blended learning movement is exploding, it is natural to have various levels of adoption....

Man wandering down a path

Differentiation in a world without learning styles

My Experience It was in an 8th-grade social studies class that I first encountered differentiation based on learning styles. At that time I was a student assistant, gaining classroom experience in preparation of my student...

Michigan Virtual

Mastery of the Universe

Exploring the practical aspects of Competency Based Learning...
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MAET Bridge: Social Studies

How are social studies teachers blending their classrooms?...
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Should Teachers Connect with Students on Social Media?

Being thoughtful about the barrier between our personal and professional lives....
Stacked rocks along the shore

Zen and the Art of Instructional Design

Coaching and learning with teachers, designing a new development process...
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Teachers Trump Tools

We need to stop giving tools the credit for engaging our students and put the focus back on teachers....
GVSU Library

Lessons in physical space from the library

GVSU's library is a flexible study environment that K-12 education should emulate....
Mrs. Wever speaking to her class

This Is Fourth Grade: A Blended Odyssey

Mary Wever personalizes learning to meet the diverse needs of her students....
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Confessions of an EdTech Guerrilla

Innovator or antagonist? You decide....
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Make intermittent internet access normal

The digital divide need not turn your classroom into a case of have/have-nots...
Snow-covered building

A new snow day ritual: Learn from home!

Could schools hold classes even when the weather closes down the building?...

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