What exactly does ‘blended learning,’ look like? This video explains | Hechinger Report

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What exactly does ‘blended learning,’ look like? This video explains

By Liz Willen

The term “blended learning,’’ is fast-becoming one of the education buzzwords that you will hear at conferences and in news articles.

Some call it digital learning or “personalized learning,’’ which is another way of describing how teachers can work with students at their individual skill level and deliver real-time instruction as needed — with the help of technology.

Blended learning is a better term than some of awful jargon that has crept into the lexicon of education, but it still merits some explanation. That’s why we are posting this this video by The Learning Accelerator, a non-profit whose mission is to accelerate high-quality blended learning in school districts across the U.S.

What is Blended Learning? from The Learning Accelerator on Vimeo.

At The Hechinger Report, we’ve become fascinated by the many ways technology is – and in some cases isn’t – changing education, no matter what it is called. And we feel it is part of our mission to explain it.

We are visiting classrooms around the country to tell these stories, and postinginterviews and profiles that help us all understand the new digital world and what it