Learning Platform - itslearning. By Roger Stjernberg As a father of three, I lead a busy life.
When I get home after work, my second job as a chef, housekeeper, chauffeur and social worker starts. I am also a homework tutor, a task that has become significantly easier since my daughter´s teachers flipped their classrooms. After work I make dinner, tidy the house, wash clothes, do the dishes and drive my children back and forth to football and handball practice. I might also have to explain to my son that he can’t take his brother’s football cards, play football in the living room, and that he has to think carefully about what he writes on Facebook. Flipped Instruction or No Instruction? - Coach G's Teaching Tips. One premise of the flipped classroom model is that students should spend most of their time in class interacting with content rather than listening to teachers present content.
And I couldn't agree more, as I wrote in an earlier post on differentiated instruction : Improving at anything takes practice. And not just any practice, but productive practice. If, for example, you want to be a better swimmer, it's counterproductive to spend hour after hour in the pool when your stroke is dreadful. 4 No-Cost Tools for Educators. FETC 2013 | Profile 4 No-Cost Tools for Educators Technology doesn't have to be expensive.
Just ask John Kuglin, a long-time tech guru who shows educators how to tap into myriad free Web resources that can be used in and out of the classroom. By Bridget McCrea12/12/12 You've heard the phrase "If it's free, it's for me" used jokingly when people stumble upon a great giveaway or no-cost item. "Free applications, software, and other tools help break down some of the barriers that educators face when implementing new tech tools," says Kuglin, a senior consultant at Kuglin Consulting in Denver.
As the number of technology tools available to educators has proliferated, Kuglin says he came to the conclusion that no-cost Web applications and learning resourceshave opened doors for teachers who would often overlook the free options. "Free applications give educators the chance to test things out and see if they stick," says Kuglin. 1. 2. Flipped Learning Network Ning - A professional learning community for teachers using screencasting in education. My Favorite WSQ. Please see the "revisited" version of this post, published in July of 2016, by clicking here.
*Please read my WSQing page for more details, descriptions, and workflow* A "WSQ" (pronounced wisk) in my class is what we call "homework" in my flipped classroom. It stands for this: [read an update on the WSQ after using it for several weeks in my classroom here] Florida Virtual School. What is FLVS?
We're glad you asked! Florida Virtual School is a public school but, as you can probably tell, we're not just any public school. We're online. This means no matter where you live you can access more than 120 courses, from Geometry to AP Art History and everything in between. What's more, our courses are just as real as the dedicated, certified teachers who teach them. We're building tools to help educators grow. Empowering The BYOD REVOLUTION. How the Flipped Classroom Turned Me into a Better Student - Getting Smart. Pros and Cons of the Flipped Classroom. The flipped classroom has been gathering steam for a few years now.
The premise: watch videos of instruction or lecture at home, and do the “homework” with the teacher in class. The Flipped Class: What it is and What it is Not In reality, there isn’t a whole lot of philosophical or theoretical information that I believe I can personally share that will be cutting edge, or not met with a new debate. I’ll let you access the flood of stories onKhan Academy if you wish to engage in that conversation.
The Flipped Class: What Does a Good One Look Like? So instead of telling you what a flipped classroom is and what a flipped classroom is not, I decided to go to the specialists, the teachers in my district, to find out how the flipped classroom is, or is not, working for them in their actual classroom. Voki Home. Blended learning. Flipped The Classroom. 10 Do’s and Don’ts When Flipping Your Classroom. Produce material for YOUR students to engage them outside the classroom.
Flippedlearning.org. What Will Work in New Blended Learning Experiment? Lenny Gonzales As the blended learning movement grows in the U.S., schools will need to experiment with what works best in different types of settings. There’s still a lot to learn about different types of blended learning models, and a new nonprofit called Silicon Schools will raise and invest $25 million toward that effort. With partial grants from the Bay Area’s Fisher family (owners of Gap), and the advice of board members Michael Horn from the Innosight Institute and Salman Khan of the Khan Academy, the nonprofit, which has raised $12 million so far, aims to fund new and innovative approaches in existing blended learning programs with grants to each school.
The effort is led by Brian Greenberg, who chronicled the successes and challenges of piloting the Khan Academy in Oakland’s Envision Schools on the Blend My Learning blog. Giving students more responsibility for the learning process was also a significant outcome of the Envision pilot program. 5 Skills for Blended-Learning Teachers. Blended Learning | Viewpoint 5 Skills for Blended-Learning Teachers In the seventh installment of their monthly column, blended learning experts Michael B.
Horn and Heather Staker outline the five skills that will increasingly be important for many teachers in the future. By Michael Horn, Heather Staker10/04/12 As more schools adopt blended-learning models, the role of the teacher is shifting. Although it is hard to generalize across the landscape of blended learning because of the rapid pace of innovation in the models, the differences between the models, and the continued changes in technology, there are five common skills that teachers will likely need to be successful in a blended-learning environment. Competency Works.