Blending Instruction with Technology

Blending Instruction with Technology is a book that offers educators guidelines and solutions for implementing blended learning in today’s classrooms. There has been a strong push by many communities, schools and educators to move to a 1:1 environment. However, once there…
• How does one teach or facilitate learning in such an environment? • What are the researched best practices for implementing blended learning in classrooms? • How do schools provide professional development to teachers to implement best practices in their classroom? • Regarding the twenty year veteran who just recently mastered email, how do schools provide the proper guidance, training and support for him/her?
This books aims to answer these questions and many more. This book is designed to be a blueprint for preparing staff members to be successful in a 1:1 environment. This book also focuses on providing students with a blended learning lesson that incorporates both cognitive and 21st Century Skills.

MICHAEL MARTIN is a poet, philosopher, farmer, musician, and the author of Sophia in Exile and The Submerged Reality, among other works.

Epigraph Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Schools & Classrooms are Becoming Dangerously Irrelevant Chapter 2: Blended Learning.? Why? Chapter 3: Skill vs. Tool: The Classic Debate of the Chicken and the Egg Chapter 4: 21st Century Skills and 21st Century Classrooms Chapter 5: Skills are Important, but Shouldn't Kids Think? Cognitive Models for Student Achievement Chapter 6: Stumbling Down the Right Path Chapter 7: A.R.T.: A Three-Step Process to Blended Learning Chapter 8: The Three-Stage Process to The A.R.T. Model of Blended Learning Chapter 9: Planning Tips Chapter 10: A Word of Caution Appendix A: Lesson Plan Template Appendix B: Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Appendix C: Webb's Depth of Knowledge Appendix D: Future Ready Schools Appendix E: 21st Century Skills and Digital Tool Crosswalk Appendix F: A.R.T. Diagnostic Assessment About the Author