Disruptive Innovation in K12 Education? Using Moodle to Create a Blending Learning Experience for Students

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

NO LONGER THE CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE!

Future Classroom. (2008) Retireved on July 9, 2009 from blog/?tag=songdo-international- school This is the classroom of the future!

Blended Instruction

What is Blended Learning?

Online curriculum with required time in a computer lab Blended Learning 100% Online curriculum at a distance Online curriculum with option of face-to-face instruction Traditional classroom instruction with few or no online resources Classroom instruction integrating online activities with not formal online requirement

GCS Usage

Ways to Engage  Periodically article or article summaries about 21 st century learners  Administrators discusses 21 st century learners at staff meetings and posts information in weekly  Target teachers already using Internet lesson

Getting Buy-in  Training – Moodle basics & online learngin principles  Technical support  Demonstrate how to best utilize Moodle in a traditional classroom  Get teachers to realize they NEED to use it – helps to differentiate instruction  Start small by asking teachers to participate in online staff development… discussions and surveys

Training  Started at the beginning of the school year  Short, convenient and often  Small groups and individually  Video tutorials  MOODLE tutorial course

Training  30 minute exposure to MOODLE What is it and what can be done with it? Repeated several times during the school year Before school & after school Larger groups 20 to 30 people

Training  1 hour “prep period” workshops Repeated three different times Repeated three different times Two to five people Two to five people Focused on – Focused on – Adding assignmentsAdding assignments Discussion boardDiscussion board Embedding videos from YouTubeEmbedding videos from YouTube

Training  Online video staff tutorials A continuation of other tutorials that had been created  Online MOODLE course Started with a generic pre- made course and added Link to online MOODLE instruction book

Provide Support  Provide teachers with release time to work with Moodle trainer and online learning specialists  Available in person during school hours  Provided phone / / text support 24/7

Encourage, Encourage, Encourage!  Show examples from our teachers  Collected comments from teachers and students and shared with the rest of the teaching staff  Exposed staff to a variety of ways that MOODLE was being used in the classroom  Peer-pressure never hurt anyone!