Blog Post #13

Brian Crosby's video Back To the Future is about helping a group of at risk students. Crosby taught many students that were getting left behind in the classroom. Because these students were getting left behind they started not to care about their work. They were getting discouraged. Crosby began to use the internet to get these students back involved in their school work. The students actually enjoyed doing blogs and began to engage in the class activities. It was very inspiring.



Blended Learning Cycle
Blended learning is composed from the three following elements: classroom, mobile, and online. He says the learning cycle should be blended in with the previous three elements. The learning cycle is when you get the students engaged, you let them explore, you explain, and then expand. Therefore, the blended learning cycle is just combining blended learning in with the learning cycle.He created the Q.U.I.V.E.R.S. approach. He likes to start the class out by forming an interesting question to grasp the students attention. Then he wants his students to investigate and experiment a bit. Next he likes to use videos in class showing the videos would be interesting for the kids and also frees the teacher u to do other things that need to be handled. Next you elaborate on the topic of the lesson that you are teaching.Then he individually or in small groups reviews all the material that was taught to make sure that each student has grasped the material being taught. Every student must do well in the review before they can move on to the final step, which is the summary quiz. The summary quiz just tests them on all the previous steps. If they don't do well on the quiz them they go back and relearn the material. After they go through about five cycles of this, then they take a sit down mastery test on all the material.I believe this strategy is excellent. It will get the students engaged in the class, which will ultimately make your job as a teacher much easier. I would love to try this technique of teaching in my class.