1. "...hybrid models of blended learning [the article presents four types] infuse the traditional classroom structure with new technology in an attempt to improve existing educational practice [i.e. a sustaining innovation]..."
This quote came from the very brief description of the Hybrid/Blended Course, made available via the website, Hybrid Course Design.
I chose this quote because it is at heart a question I've been asking myself: Why the changing teaching models? By this question, I mean to incite the idea that while students certainly grow and change generationally, why so much concentration on technology integration when some students aren't grasping the true basics of simple reading and writing? I know it's important to meet students where they are, to engage them.
Granted, I know nothing about educational theory, but I wonder why this paradigm shift? What has been happening which illustrates all of this NEEDS to take place.
2. "An essay or story is not the sum of its parts but something you as a reader create by putting together those parts that seem to matter."
This section comes from the forward of the text, Ways of Reading, a book I used to teach from in ENG 2089 my first couple of semesters at UC Clermont. I scrapped it because, as its writers cop to, it is difficult reading, and at that moment in my teaching career, I hadn't yet discovered how to help my students allow themselves to read something which was perhaps beyond their level, and strive to appreciate it.
But I agree with this quote whole-heartedly: so much of what we read and pay attention to, make sense of, is not even on the page. It's the emotion of a passage, the way the writer captures a moment which crystallizes an event in our past; reading isn't just processing words on a page, but more so, becoming more cognizant of the larger world outside of and inside of oneself.
