Blended learning and the BC Education Plan: Delivering flexibility and choice in intermediate language arts

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2016
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Cockram, Derek E.
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The introduction of the BC Education Plan represents a substantial shift in pedagogy within British Columbia. The Ministry of Education has indicated that educational priorities are changing and new skills and competencies need to be developed by students. Personalized Learning, offering students increased flexibility and choice over what, when and how they study is a means of increasing student engagement while simultaneously building these competencies. Blended Learning, the thoughtful integration of online learning with traditional face to face teaching, is a growing educational trend across North America. It promises to provide the desired flexibility and choice required to deliver Personalized Learning. In this major project, students were given the opportunity to explore and complete a number of units on digital literacy, mythology, folklore and short stories in a Blended Learning environment. They created and maintained e-portfolios to meet some of their learning outcomes related to intermediate Language Arts as well as Applied Design, Skills and Technology. The units were subsequently evaluated both by the students and a group of educational professionals who recorded their feedback on surveys. The major project can be found here: www.divisionthreeenglish.weebly.com
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