Disruptive Innovation in Disruptive Innovation in K12 Education?K12 Education?

Using Moodle to Create a Blending Learning Using Moodle to Create a Blending Learning Experience for StudentsExperience for Students

What is a Disruptive Innovation?What is a Disruptive Innovation?

A A disruptive disruptive innovationinnovation is an is an innovationinnovation that that improves a product or improves a product or service in ways that service in ways that the market does not the market does not expect, typically by expect, typically by being lower priced or being lower priced or designed for a designed for a different set of different set of consumers consumers

NO LONGER THE CLASSROOM NO LONGER THE CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE!OF THE FUTURE!

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This is the classroom of the This is the classroom of the future!future!

Blended InstructionBlended Instruction

What is Blended Learning?What is Blended Learning?

Online curriculum with required time in a computer lab

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100% Online curriculum at

a distance

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few or no online

resources

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online activities with not formal

online requirement

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Ways to Engage Ways to Engage

Periodically email article or article Periodically email article or article summaries about 21summaries about 21stst century learners century learners

Administrators discusses 21Administrators discusses 21stst century century learners at staff meetings and posts learners at staff meetings and posts information in weekly emailinformation in weekly email

Target teachers already using Internet Target teachers already using Internet lessonlesson

Getting Buy-inGetting Buy-in

Training – Moodle basics & online learngin Training – Moodle basics & online learngin principles principles

Technical supportTechnical support Demonstrate how to best utilize Moodle in a Demonstrate how to best utilize Moodle in a

traditional classroomtraditional classroom Get teachers to realize they NEED to use it Get teachers to realize they NEED to use it

– helps to differentiate instruction– helps to differentiate instruction Start small by asking teachers to participate Start small by asking teachers to participate

in online staff development… discussions in online staff development… discussions and surveysand surveys

TrainingTraining

Started at the Started at the beginning of the beginning of the school yearschool year

Short, convenient Short, convenient and oftenand often

Small groups and Small groups and individuallyindividually

Video tutorials Video tutorials MOODLE tutorial MOODLE tutorial

coursecourse

TrainingTraining

30 minute exposure 30 minute exposure to MOODLEto MOODLE What is it and what What is it and what

can be done with it?can be done with it? Repeated several Repeated several

times during the times during the school yearschool year

Before school & after Before school & after schoolschool

Larger groups 20 to 30 Larger groups 20 to 30 peoplepeople

TrainingTraining

1 hour “prep period” 1 hour “prep period” workshopsworkshops Repeated three different Repeated three different

timestimes Two to five peopleTwo to five people Focused on – Focused on –

• Adding assignmentsAdding assignments• Discussion boardDiscussion board• Embedding videos from Embedding videos from

YouTubeYouTube

TrainingTraining Online video staff tutorialsOnline video staff tutorials

A continuation of other A continuation of other tutorials that had been tutorials that had been createdcreated

Online MOODLE courseOnline MOODLE course Started with a generic pre-Started with a generic pre-

made course and addedmade course and added Link to online MOODLE Link to online MOODLE

instruction bookinstruction book

Provide SupportProvide Support

Provide teachers with Provide teachers with release time to work with release time to work with Moodle trainer and online Moodle trainer and online learning specialistslearning specialists

Available in person during Available in person during school hoursschool hours

Provided phone / email / text Provided phone / email / text support 24/7support 24/7

Encourage, Encourage, Encourage, Encourage, Encourage!Encourage!

Show examples from our teachers Show examples from our teachers Collected comments from teachers and Collected comments from teachers and

students and shared with the rest of the students and shared with the rest of the teaching staffteaching staff

Exposed staff to a variety of ways that Exposed staff to a variety of ways that MOODLE was being used in the MOODLE was being used in the classroomclassroom

Peer-pressure never hurt anyone!Peer-pressure never hurt anyone!