Blended learning is not just a trend, and we’re starting to see technology integrated in really intentional ways.

One of the key things is alignment … between what you’re doing outside of the classroom and inside of the classroom.

Say to your students, “I’m going to give you an activity to do, and I’m going to lay out some guidelines for it, but I’m also going to give you quite a lot of freedom.

In the online environment,  [social interactions] can still happen, but they just need to happen more intentionally.

There are ways that you can build in social presence activities into a blended classroom, both face-to-face and online, that are really encouraging interactions between you and your students and between your students and each other.

Because we don’t naturally reflect, it means that we have to intentionally build in reflection for our students.

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