{"id":23991,"date":"2020-11-13T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T09:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/?p=23991"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:24:00","slug":"blended-learning-in-a-bending-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/principal\/blended-learning-in-a-bending-world\/","title":{"rendered":"BLENDED LEARNING IN A BENDING WORLD"},"content":{"rendered":"
Climate change, social justice, CoVid, politics, education systems – now more than ever we need to adapt.\u2018Unprecedented\u2019, \u2018Difficult\u2019, \u2018Challenging\u2019 \u2026 these are times of Opportunity. How we move through and beyond this period in history, and how we \u2018bend\u2019 in this bending world, will define life on Earth in the future. At Green School Bali (GSB) we call it \u2018Bend Like Bamboo\u2019 – and with our blended learning program, a direct response of the bending world, we are on an exponential learning curve of what education needs to become. That said, since it opened in 2008, GSB has been actively \u2018bending\u2019, adapting and innovating to this fast-changing world – now, it\u2019s easy to see all schools all over the world are being asked (told) to start bending.<\/p>\n
Moving from full onsite, or full distance learning programs, to a blended learning program is easier said than done. Our beautiful campus is closed, but we have access to some nearby Green Camp space for staggered onsite learning experiences focussed on social-emotional activities, assignment clarification, assessment, and gardening\/agricultural activities. At GSB we have students in Bali who have a mix of onsite and online learning days which differs for different age-levels; we have students in Bali but (for CoVid reasons) are doing full distance learning programs; and there are students who are still unable to get back to Bali scattered around the world in different time zones on a full-time distance learning program. Throw all that into the learning program blender and you get an extreme definition of Blended Learning.<\/p>\n