Blog Post #11

In the video, Back to the Future, Brian Crosby discusses his fourth grade class and the experiments that they do. His students do exciting and fun experiments and then post videos and pictures of them actually doing the experiment on their blogs. The students then noticed that they shared their classroom experiences with the whole world. Giving students assignments, projects and different activities that are interesting, exciting and fun will keep them focused on the lesson ans what they need to learn. Students being active learners will be motivated to better their knowledge.

In the video, Blended Learning Cycle, Paul Andersen goes into detail on what Blended Learning Cycle really is. The first part, Blended Learning, is taking the components of online, mobile and classroom learning and blending them together on the classroom. The last part, Learning Cycle, is composed of the 5 E's: Engaging question, Exploring the experiment, Explaining the phenomenon, Expanding, and Evaluating. Andersen made up an acronym that has six parts for his Blended Learning Cycle, called Quivers. It starts with a really good Question to begin the project with. Next, you wan the students to Investigate/Inquiry the experiment. Then, the students will have a Video to watch. Next is Elaboration, which is where the students will read more about it. The comes the one-on-one Review between the student and teacher. The teacher will ask the student questions about the assignment to understand if the student is ready for the Summary quiz.