Branching
Intro
By using the Branching activity, teachers can create alternative learning paths for students.
This activity is used for adaptive learning and personalise the learning experience for students.
As a teacher, you can create parallel learning pathways or branches based on create parallel through a design.
For instance in the example below, the output of a assessment activity is used to determine which branch the student should be allocated to.
However, there are several ways that can be used to allocate students into branches:
Manual or teacher choice. You, the teacher, decides which branch each student should take.
Group or team based allocation. When using groups or teams, you can map which team or teams go into each branch.
Tool output based allocation. Given the output of a previously completed activity, a student can be allocated to a branch automatically.
Students select the branch Students can select which branch they want to use. If you choose this option, you can give students the possibility to select one or more branches.
Branches within branches You can have branches within branches making your adaptive teaching as granular as you desire!
Why do I want to use Branching?
Create different learning experiences for your students based on different teams they belong to, learning outcomes, sensory preference, output from an assessment, teams, etc.
Create truly adaptive teaching and deliver customised resources and learning activities to address the unique needs of each student (or group of students).
As a teacher, you can plan different scenarios for your students and let them run in parallel.
Educational Insight
Having the ability to create personalise learning experiences is the paramount of teaching. Using branching you can create very fine grained learning experiences for your students. Whether it is to remediate their knowledge or enhance and expand their expertise! As you are able to plan the branching allocation,
What can I use Branching for?
Branching can help you to personalise your teaching and better support your students when you create your lesson plan.
If you have activities where each team within a class is to perform a different task, then you can use branching to allow these tasks to be performed by each team in parallel.
The Branching possibilities are endless to create meaningful and adaptive learning experiences!
Pedagogies that use Branching: Jigsaws, Inductive learning, etc.
How does it work?
You (teacher) can create simple or complex learning pathway for your students to follow.
Based on the rules or criteria you use to determine which path each student (or team/group) should follow, you can plan before you start the lesson what kind of support and experience your students will have.
Now, lets look at each Branching type in detail.
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