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What Early Blended Learning Pioneers Got Right That Today's Schools Have Forgotten

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This situation reflects the limitation of a models-approach to blended learning implementation. While models have been pivotal in helping teachers implement blended practice, a hyper focus on their individual components, or one model over another, can obscure the big picture. In short, we need to go back to the basics.

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Giving Thanks: The Top EdSurge Contributors of 2016

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Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Personalized learning. Blended learning. grabbed the top contributor spots, speaking to brain-based classroom design, computational thinking, and school culture. You know, that old “desk-and-teacher-at-the-front” set-up.)

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How to Make District-Wide Innovation Personal—and Collaborative

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Another reason for the concern is that as educators increasingly use digital tools to personalize learning for students, some have struggled to ensure that the environments they create are not isolating. The real magic of blended learning occurs when teachers use technology to boost human interaction, in both frequency and impact.

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