DESIGNING A BLENDED LEARNING

I have come to realize that blended learning is not enough in a classroom. It has also be a learner-centered way. So, ideally , it will also be a Lasallian module in a blended learning done in a learner centered way. With this I come to think about the things I did in the classroom this week with my Lasallian students. I used the OPTICART with a film on the Respiratory system. In a blended learning environment, the learners shall be able to manipulate and at the same time be able to receive feedbacks in the interactives. Although the OPTICART is not something that students will really manipulate, I allowed them to go near to it and follow through the path for instance of where the air will pass through following the colored film since the passage way of the air has color for emphasis. The students were so engrossed and interested. How much more if the teacher would really be using the interactive games with technology? I guess that would be the challenge that I would be able to place interactive games in my learning module next quarter. But I should bear in mind the different framework that would guide me somehow. One of which is the SAMR( Substitution, Augmentation, Modification and Redifinition). Most of the interactives merely fall in substitution and augmentation. The next framework would be the TIM (Technology Integration Matrix) which would allow technology to be used by the learners to build understanding rather than simply receive information. Another framework is the Blended Learning Design, Learner Centered Principles, Seven Goals for the Design, Effective Use of technology,Characteristics of Application, Learning Goals and the UNESCO FRAMEWORK. With all of these, at lest the designer will be guided, and will not simply place technology with face to face, just for fun. Yet, today I had fun in using another learner -centered technique which is creating the the webquest using zunal.com. I hope we can make it thoroughly to help in changing the schema of our learners.