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What is Blended Learning?

As a year has almost gone by in my transition to a blended learning coach, I'm realizing more and more just how passionate I am about blended learning. See, before I was introduced to blended learning I was always entranced and perhaps befuddled by the concept of "what's next?" in educational technology. I think, as educators, we tend to be searching for anything to help us reach every single one of our students. It's a never-ending race as our students change and move to the next grade, but still... we search. But when you think about blended learning, it's not so much about what's next, but rather, how we choose to incorporate it into our classroom to best impact student learning. So when I was facilitating a year-long professional learning opportunity with teachers and we tasked them with the "Chopped Challenge, Blended Learning Edition " I felt it necessary for me to play along, too. The task: Use all of the props placed in front of you...