Student Response System for Higher Education Use any device Your students can respond using whatever device they own. That includes smartphones, tablets, laptops, and even "dumbphones" with text messaging. Easy as pie Setting up clickers has never been called "easy" but Poll Everywhere makes it dead simple to add exciting, real time polls to your lecture. Affordable Poll Everywhere is 1/10 the cost of clickers. ExitTicket | exit tickets | classroom student response system | clickers classroom polling education Flipped learning: A response to five common criticisms One of the reasons this debate exists is because there is no true definition of what “flipped learning” is. Over the past few years, the Flipped Learning method has created quite a stir. Some argue that this teaching method will completely transform education, while others say it is simply an opportunity for boring lectures to be viewed in new locations. While the debate goes on, the concept of Flipped Learning is not entirely new. Dr. It’s our opinion that one of the reasons this debate exists is because there is no true definition of what Flipped Learning is. Dr.
6 Expert Tips for Flipping the Classroom Tech-Enabled Learning | Feature Page 4 of 5 6 Expert Tips for Flipping the Classroom He admits the flipped model requires more flexibility on the part of the professor. "With the flipped classroom, I can't plan; I can only anticipate," notes Talbert. "I've taught the class enough in the past to know where the trouble spots are going to be, but really I have no idea what's going to happen from one day to the next. 5) Set a specific target for the flip. 6) Build assessments that complement the flipped model. QuestionPress - Web-Based Classroom and Audience Response System The Colors Of Success: Rewarding Positive Classroom Behavior « Teacher Blog Maintaining positive behavior in a classroom is one of the most important things teachers can do to enhance student learning. Early in my career, I developed a system for rewarding positive behavior that I have used successfully for 12 years. My students know what it means to be responsible, respectful, and focused, and they work hard to exhibit these behaviors. The Colors of Success positive discipline system simultaneously rewards students for positive behavior, discourages negative behavior, and teaches the behaviors that help people become successful. To affect whole-class discipline, I announce that I am “looking for focus,” or “I’ll be seeing who is responsible by taking notes during the film.” or “Responsible students have already written down their assignment.” or “Respectful students don’t talk during the morning announcements.” etc. So, while students are engaging in positive behaviors, they are learning the appropriate vocabulary associated with that behavior.
8 More Flips for the Coming School Year [Originally published 8.17.12 in the Santa Fe Leaderership Center newsletter] The new school year is launching, and it is a busy time for establishing our academic routines, but don’t let this year be another year of business as usual. Take the opportunity our annually cyclical enterprise provides us to reconsider which of our routines are ready to be reversed. It is remarkable how quickly the concept of flipping the classroom surged, spread, and has taken root across a great breadth of schools. The speed with which it has spread, however, is not entirely surprising when we factor the significance of networked learning and social media today. This post isn’t about flipping the classroom; it is about extending the spirit of the flip throughout the work of our schools. Flip Meetings. Flip Mission. Flip Sequence. Flip it. Flip Helpfulness. It is so powerfully the impulse of every educator to help, it is encoded in our genetic make-up. Flip Testing. Advantages occur on many levels. Flip PD.
Design Thinking: Lessons for the Classroom The Design Thinking Process While design thinking has its roots in the innovation/design sector, the process itself can be used anywhere. Indeed, it is a great tool for teaching 21st century skills, as participants must solve problems by finding and sorting through information, collaborating with others, and iterating their solutions based on real world, authentic experience and feedback. I had the good fortune to participate in a collaborative workshop at the Big Ideas Fest, where we practiced design thinking with about 12 other educators over a three-day period. Practitioners of design thinking have different steps depending on their needs. 1) Identify Opportunity 2) Design 3) Prototype 4) Get Feedback 5) Scale and Spread 6) Present In design thinking, you work through the steps together in small groups (or "Collabs" as they were called at BIF2011). With driving question in hand, each Collab is led by a trained facilitator. This right here is another novel idea! Step 4: Feedback
Student Engagement and Assessment | LectureTools LectureTools Acquired by Echo360 We are pleased to announce that we are joining forces with the Echo360 team. This will allow us to move towards our ultimate vision of an active learning platform that enables students to engage and participate before, during, and after class. Current accounts will not be affected, as LectureTools will continue as a standalone product. Learn More LectureTools Releases New Student iPad App LectureTools for iPad allows students to relay feedback to their instructor in real-time during lecture. Learn More
Instructional Strategies for Engaging Learners Instructional Strategies for Engaging Learners Activating Strategies Purpose: To activate students' prior knowledge through the use of engaging strategies designed to focus learning Cognitive Strategies Purpose: To provide a structure for learning that actively promotes the comprehension and retention of knowledge through the use of engaging strategies that acknowledge the brain's limitations of capacity and processing. Summarizing Strategies Purpose: To promote the retention of knowledge through the use of engaging strategies designed to rehearse and practice skills for the purpose of moving knowledge into long-term memory. from Instructional Strategies for Engaging Learners Guilford County Schools TF, 2002
“Flip Your Classroom”: the new book from Bergmann and Sams Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, two rural Colorado public school secondary chemistry teachers, have launched something over the past five or six years that is truly significant and lasting, I believe, and this fine, short, accessible book is a great vehicle for their program. I commend the authors, and recommend the book highly. Bergmann and Sams utilize a fine tone in the book. They also write with humility, acknowledging their limits and their errors. There is a way in which this is two books in one, or two separate techniques bundled into one package. The first technique is what Bergman and Sams call, to their amusement and mine, the “traditional flip.” The second part of the book offers two chapters on the second and current iteration of Sams and Bergmann, which they advocate as the superior of the two techniques, Flip Mastery. Appreciations: 1. 15 (!) “Flipping increases student-teacher interaction.” This is the promise of “blended instruction,” which is my preference also. 2. a.