Please allow me to introduce myself (pt.2) . . .
With my teaching partner, I am working towards a model of blended learning that has a lot in common with this passage from Caroline Gray:
“Blended learning is a custom approach that applies a mix of training delivery options to teach, support, and sustain the skills needed for top . . . performance. With blended learning, the tried-and-true traditional learning methods are combined with new technology to create a synergistic, dynamic learning structure that can propel learning to new heights.”
The title of her article, Why Everything Old Is New Again -- But Better , has become the theme for my life and my career, for my day-to-day work and how I feel technology ought to be used to enhance learning. For more about this, please take a look at my workshop lens in Squidoo à Small Changes; BIG RETURNS.
When I first started teaching and used to imagine how I'd end up, I'd myself working as a teacher trainer -- perhaps teaching in university or as a faculty associate helping student teachers learn how to work in the classroom. Now I think that goal may be within reach, but with a different twist, because I'm getting enormous pleasure from helping colleagues -- many near dinosaurs like I almost was -- renew, refresh and re-energize their work.
