So the whole course has come down to this.
All the videos, all the footage that
you've watched, all your assignments have led up
to this final culminating activity, prototyping your
high quality blended learning environment in a classroom.
Hopefully, by this time either you've planned out
what's going to happen in your classroom, or you've
been able to make another arrangement with a
friend or with a cousin who has a classroom.
Or maybe you're just able to get a whole bunch of kids from
your neighborhood together to simulate a class environment.
>> Now remember the big idea is that you're going to take some before and after
footage and tell us the story of what you tried and what you learned from it.
And it's really a bit open ended.
If you can't find any form of a learning environment with real learners,
they don't even have to be students, I mean kids, it could be adults.
But if you really can't create that at all There
are some options where you can do this as a hypothetical.
So the first option
is to do it instead of as of a video, as a paper.
And you literally just write it as if I did
this and you're sort of doing it as a creative assignment.
But you write it up the same way and have the same
level of analysis And learning about what you learned from your prototype.
>> And the second option is very similar to
that first one, but instead, take one of your classmate's
videos of their blended learning implementation, and write that similar
paper where you analyze the context and what they did
actually as though it were your own blended learning implementation.
>> So before you even start this, make sure you
go back and look at the resources we have for you.
If you go on the assignments page, under the peer graded assignments,
there are detailed instructions of what's expected of you for this project.
Also, go into the final assignment itself and look at the rubric.
It's going to show you what your going to be scored on so
you have a better idea of what your final project should look like.
And about the final project,
we don't need this to be a big grand
gesture, and you don't need to be showing off.
This is a three minute video or a two to three page paper at tops.
>> That's exactly right, and to that end we're not
going to be prescriptive either on the scope of your change.
You just want to do a small flipped
classroom for one lesson, or if you want to
do a giant flipped classroom for the whole
year, or even start to redesign your school.
We're not going to be prescriptive around
how you do that.
>> And the ultimate reason for this is this is about your learning.
I mean, I know we've probably all been good students
and we're used to trying to, like, please our teachers.
We, as your professors in this course, don't want you to do something for us.
So, figure out where you're going to learn the most.
And to this point, because there's so many people
taking the course, we probably can't respond to individual questions.
While I like to do this in my course.
Feel free to post it on the discussion board and maybe the community can give
you some feedback.
But for the most part, it's going to be a common sense response of what
you think is best, and, frankly, figure out what will help you learn the most and
get you closest to figuring out whether you
do or don't like blended learning or what
the pieces of this course have taught you that you want to do in your future.
>> As we said before, this isn't about getting a three or
a two on a specific rubric item, this is about your learning.
So as we do the peer-graded assignments and you do the actual peer grading
itself at the end, which'll be the final thing that you really do for this course.
We also have a qualitative note section,
where you can provide really good targeted feedback
for people that have done this assignment
and hopefully people will provide that same feedback
for you so that when you go out and you try something like this again,
you're going to be able to, you're going to
be able to do it that much better.
>> So we'll bring up a pop-up here with the reminders
of the dates and deadlines, and we're just really looking forward
to see what you all come up with.
We've been giving you a lot of this as a theoretical background, but
the proof is in the pudding when you try this in your settings.
And we're just fascinated to learn from what you do.