Rachel and I attended Jeff Utecht's session on Blended Classrooms this afternoon. Jeff is at the American School in Bankok, Thailand. Here's a link to his handouts: http://wiki.thethinkingstick.com/page/Blended+Classrooms
Jeff shared the video below to illustrate how education will be shifting to include online education, and that many of our students (and children) will attend part or all of their college courses online!
A highlight of the session was when he broke us into groups of 4 and gave us 10 minutes to complete an assignment based on one of 4 scenarios. Here was ours:
Assistant to CEO: You are an assistant for a CEO of a large company. She has just approached you with the following task. “I have a meeting in 15 minutes with a perspective new client named Mint.com. I know nothing about them! I need you to research the company for me and have an e-mail in my inbox in 10 minutes with the run down of who this company is and what they do, and the potential for growth in the market in which they operate.”
Rachel and I worked with 2 other BLC participants from Arkansas and within 10 minutes we came up with a rather thorough run-down of the product, which we were then instructed to email to Jeff. It was amazing how much we were able to collaborate and accomplish and learn in the 10 short minutes! This would be an easy assignment to adapt.
He also discussed how his students in Bankok each have a blog that follows them as a digital portfolio throughout their years at the school. He wrote a post about overcoming our fears about students publishing online here: http://www.thethinkingstick.com/overcoming-our-fears
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