The Flipped Classroom Model: A Full Picture Due to Khan Academy’s popularity, the idea of the flipped classroom has gained press and credibility within education circles. Briefly, the Flipped Classroom as described by Jonathan Martin is: Flip your instruction so that students watch and listen to your lectures… for homework, and then use your precious class-time for what previously, often, was done in homework: tackling difficult problems, working in groups, researching, collaborating, crafting and creating. Classrooms become laboratories or studios, and yet content delivery is preserved. Flip your instruction so that students watch and listen to your lectures… for homework, and then use your precious class-time for what previously, often, was done in homework: tackling difficult problems, working in groups, researching, collaborating, crafting and creating. Classrooms become laboratories or studios, and yet content delivery is preserved ( The Flipped Classroom Model Summary Bridge-It
Experimentation Is The New Planning Technology is a bitch. It affects every industry, often in ways that are difficult (if not impossible) to anticipate. There’s always the possibility that a Napster or a Netflix or a Wikipedia will arrive to completely disrupt your business or industry. So it makes sense to have some kind of system that allows you to continually develop options and explore possibilities, so that when the day of disruption does arrive, it finds you ready with a few alternatives in hand. Let’s Be Deliberate: Real Strategy Emerges An evolving portfolio of strategic experiments gives the management team more choices, which means better odds that some of the choices will be right. Management theorist Henry Mintzberg makes a distinction between deliberate and emergent strategy. Deliberate strategy is goal-oriented. A Portfolio Of Experiments Diversity breeds creativity--ecosystems are richest where habitats and species overlap. In 2005, Google set a formula for distributing its engineering efforts: 70-20-10.
Flip your classroom through reverse instruction Have you ever experienced the unique and rare moment when, after doing something the same way for year and years, you have an epiphany and wonder, "why am I doing it this way?" Most of the time the answer is tradition, that's the way we've always done it. At one time, there probably was a sound, logical, reasonable explanation for the decision to do it that way. I stumbled across an interesting article in THE Journal a little over a year ago and had a moment like I described above. Sams and Bergman were the first people, to my knowledge, to suggest the idea of "reverse instruction." Last year I began implementing reverse instruction into my high school Anatomy & Physiology class. With class time liberated from lectures I was able to incorporate more hands-on activities, projects, and helping students better understand confusing and challenging concepts. I would not say that my first year was a complete success. Reverse Instruction Resources:
The product design sprint: a five-day recipe for startups At Google Ventures, we do product design work with startups all the time. Since we want to move fast and they want to move fast, we’ve optimized a process that gets us predictably good results in five days or less. We call it a product design sprint, and it’s great for getting unstuck or accelerating projects that are already in motion. I’ve planned and run over 100 of these sprints, first with teams at Google and now with startups in the Google Ventures portfolio. Over the next several posts, I’ll be sharing a DIY guide for running your own design sprint. Before the sprint: Prepare Get the people and things you need. Day 1: Understand Dig into the design problem through research, competitive review, and strategy exercises. Day 2: Diverge Rapidly develop as many solutions as possible. Day 3: Decide Choose the best ideas and hammer out a user story. Day 4: Prototype Build something quick and dirty that can be shown to users. If you think you’ve heard of this model before, well, you’re right.
Inverting the classroom, improving student learning ThomsonScience | Ramblings about my life as a chemistry teacher Supporting Students in a #Flipclass « Educator I saw a tweet come through the feed this morning from Brad Campbell and Vanessa Alander regarding the practice of “implementing” a flipped classroom without appropriate support for students. [blackbirdpie id="186084660743380992"] [blackbirdpie id="186085691363561473"] These are important discussions to have because, and I cannot emphasize this enough, good pedagogy must come before technology use. Some things to consider as you plan on flipping your class: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Flipped classrooms can accentuate good teaching just as well as it can accentuate bad teaching.
What is flipped learning? Quick-fire links Are we about to see organisations slipping in the word “flipped” when describing their learning and devlopment activities? The concept is gaining ground in the education sector, so what exactly is it and what does it mean for learning and development (L&D)? The main thrust of flipped learning is that the learner is given materials (online video, for example) to look at outside of the classroom so that those materials can then be discussed back in the classroom. That’s the flip – looking at learning materials outside of the classroom rather than them being delivered by the teacher in the classroom. This is how Wikipedia currently defines flipped learning: “The traditional pattern of secondary education has been to have classroom lectures, in which the teacher explains a topic, followed by homework, in which the student does exercises. Khan Academy success The rise and rise of the Khan Academy and its focus on video learning is adding fuel to the fire. Taking it further
Flipping with Kirch 12 Screencasting Tools For Creating Video Tutorials Ever wondered how people show you so clearly what is happening on their computer, like in the Photoshop Video Tutorials we shared with you? Thanks to screencasting software, anyone can do it. So what's stopping you now from making your own how-to videos? Try out one of these 12 tools and get to making your first video! Free AviScreen - As the name would imply, this capture program records the video into AVI files, but can also do BMP photos. CamStudio.org - An open source program for capturing your on-screen video and audio as AVI files. Copernicus - A free program for Macs that focuses heavily on making quick and speedy films by recording the video to your RAM for quicker access. JingProject.com - Beyond recording video, Jing allows you to take a picture of any portion fo your desktop, draw on it, add a message, and immediately upload your media to a free hosting account. Wink - Screencasting software that focuses on making tutorials with audio and text annotation abilities. Commercial
Flipped classroom - no more It seemed like a good idea. It worked for a while. How do I know? Because in class, more kids would take the initiative to come to me with questions regarding understanding rather than procedure. Because kids were getting group practice on sophisticated (more or less) questions done in class. Because I could see on thatquiz that students were doing their assignments and I loved seeing what was going well and needed re-teaching. Then it didn't work anymore. The test results were horrible. Even though it's disappointing that the flipped classroom strategy didn't work, I'm happy we tried it. Afterwards, I talked at length about why we tried flipped classroom (to get more time for problem solving / exercises in class because the students were not doing them at home).
I spy with my #flipclass eye…Is texting the problem? | flipperteach Can I be honest? I wrote and passed notes in class my entire high school career. I even collected said notes and displayed them in shoe box with pride. “Look! Did this extensive social note writing hinder my education? In fact, at times the entire class participated in social note writing, and notes would pass around and be added to throughout class. Communicating as I learn is how I put pieces of the puzzle together. As an adult, I now know that with my own learning, communication always leads to engagement. This year as I transitioned from being a “stand and deliver” teacher to one where I am more a “guide on the side” in the flipped classroom, I gained time to interact with and observe students in an insightful way. When I see it happen, I know: “Yup, I went the wrong way, turn around and find your way back to the heart of the matter.” Students need to be engaged. In our flip classroom cell phones/technology are welcome in class. So I ask you, is texting really the problem? P.S.