Blended Learning Is Making Teachers More Productive in the Classroom. Here’s How.

By Ellie Kaufman, Tech Mic

While the success of blended learning programs is debatable, incorporating technology more actively into any subject helps students learn basic tech skills they will need later in life. And it engages them with material in a completely new, potentially more effective, way. Tracy Rudzitis teaches technology and digital media classes at the Computer School, a public middle school in New York City’s Upper West Side neighborhood. She teaches computer programming and other courses in which students design and build real-world projects using PCs. “If they are using technology and computers, they are using them because those are really powerful tools that allow students to create and construct powerful ideas,” Rudzitis told Mic. “They can use a computer to create a program, which is much more powerful than drawing a picture.”

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