Learning Platform - itslearning | The parent's perspective. 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.
Between these activities, I also help my children with their homework. Homework leads to frustration and tears To be honest helping with homework is not exactly my favourite activity. And I was reluctant when my daughter came home and told me about a new way of doing homework. Video instruction icing on the cake The parent login surprised me. The video became my personal mentor. 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. Correct your stroke first, then swim laps. And correcting your stroke requires skillful coaching. Coaches can only help, however, if they know what you need help with--e.g., a swimming coach must see what's wrong with your stroke in order to help you get it right. But what if students don't need instruction? Granted, students can choose to not watch a video lesson if they already know the material. And lectures aren't just unnecessary for material students have seen before.
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.
But John Kuglin isn't joking when he says that motto goes a long way for teachers looking to integrate Web 2.0 technologies and other advanced tools into their classrooms. "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. "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] W - Watch Students must watch the video for the assigned lesson and take notes in their SSS packets (this stands for "Student Success Sheets" and I have them for each unit/chapter) I have created for them. I check to see that these notes are complete and thorough and that everything I wrote down the students have. Because they can pause and rewind, there is no exception for these notes not being well done and complete. Some of my very high achieving students have asked "Do I have to watch the video" and under certain circumstances, I say "no", but you still have to complete the notes on the SSS packet.
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I wasn’t very engaged during class, had a difficult time doing my homework, and was unable to get help from my parents because they didn’t know the material that I was being assigned. After my sophomore year I took the ACT test and scored a 13 – which was not good enough to have many options after high school. I began preparing myself to work at McDonalds because I didn’t think there would be anything else I’d be qualified to pursue after I finished high school. On my first day of class junior year, everything changed. My school began flipping all of its classes, which meant that for homework, I was assigned videos to watch, which were made by my teachers and explained the material which we were learning.
The biggest different in the flipped classroom was that I was able to learn at my own pace. 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.
A simple note sent to the staff began a wave of information that I’m excited to share. I wasn’t aware that we had a teacher in our district that had flipped ALL of his classes. Positives: Negatives: 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. Generic content works as a starting point but students have greater faith in their own teacher’s input.Decide on a workflow solution and stick to it. I use Edmodo to set assignments and annotate responses. Students are happy with this solution as it is cross platform and supports learning with library and backpack resources.Set specific deadlines for your students. If they are given a date then unfortunately that can be construed as midnight!!
The old hand-in mantra of next lesson doesn’t fit the ‘flipped‘ class idea and as such can present a problem.Provide access for students who aren’t connected to the internet at home. Whether it be provision after school or via downloaded material, there will still be issues for home learning.Write to parents to explain the new style of learning and be prepared for questions. Expect students to watch/read your material just because you tell them to. Like this: Like Loading... 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. 1) Comfort with 'Chaos' One of the biggest shifts in a blended-learning environment is often that students will be engaged in different activities and working on different concepts and skills. About the Authors Heather Staker is a senior education research fellow at Innosight Institute.
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