Ebook: Blending instruction with technology: a blueprint for teachers to create unique, engaging, and effective learning experiences

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.;Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Schools and Classrooms Are Becoming Dangerously Irrelevant; Chapter 2. Blended Learning? Why?; Chapter 3. Skill versus Tools: The Classic Debate of the Chicken and the Egg; Chapter 4. Twenty-First-Century Skills and Twenty-First-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. ART: A Three-Step Process to Blended Learning; Chapter 8. The Three-Stage Process to the ART Model of Blended Learning.