Digital Learning Standards

Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a Digital Learning Summit in Frankfort, KY.  The mission of the Digital Summit is to "Provide evidence that digital and blended learning in Kentucky schools and districts is having an impact on the preparation of all students to graduate college and career ready."

Part of the discussion centered around the proposed KY Standards for Digital Learning.  The intent of the standards is to fulfill the mission statement listed above.  However, the standards really they've developed don't really differ from what good teaching is anyway.  If you really think about it, good teaching is good teaching whether it's online or in a traditional classroom.

Having some time today, I did a quick search for Digital Learning Standards and found several education technology groups such as ISTE and iNACOL already have Digital Learning Standards available, which means we have folks in the state trying to re-create the wheel.  If somebody has already created the wheel, let's make their wheel better instead of trying to design our own wheel.

Oddly enough I also had the opportunity to participate in a Blended Learning webinar today provided by K12 focusing on a school in Colorado Springs, CO.  There were some great points made in that webinar that will be the subject of a future post, but it basically laid out how the district reimagined learning and the space it occurs in.  I'm looking forward to getting the recorded webinar and accompanying presentation to go through it with a fine tooth comb.

I'm a huge supporter of blended learning, and would like to see more of it not only in my district, but also throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.  If you've got ideas or plans your school or district has used, please share by responding to this post.