Engage All Levels of Education You want to use digital learning in your classroom, but how do you start? Today's educational climate puts an increasing emphasis on incorporating technology into student learning, including everyday projects, lessons, skill sets, and online assessments. Watch the recorded presentations, below, from your favorite flipping pioneers at ISTE 2013. Get Education Pricing Try TechSmith tools free for 30-days and save big with education pricing! Learn More >> Learn More about Flipping Use technology to flip your classroom and create the engaging learning environment you've always wanted. Learn More >> Dr. Graham Johnson, Okanagan Mission Secondary Steve Kelly, St. Lori Hochstetler, Northridge Middle School Rob Zdrojewski, Amherst Central Schools Kristin Daniels, Stillwater Area Public Schools Brian Bennett, TechSmith
LyndsieGraves: Surve... Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts When Flipping Your Classroom #edchat 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!! Expect students to watch/read your material just because you tell them to. This post is in response to the success we have had with workflow and assessment for learning this academic year. Please contact me if you would like to discuss the ‘flipped’ class as I am very keen to hear any new ideas. Like this: Like Loading...
There's More Than One Way to Flip a Classroom - Digital Education In a packed session this afternoon at ISTE 2012 here in San Diego, a panel of nine educators, as well as two moderators presented their ideas and experiences with "flipping" their classrooms. The session was led by Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann, two chemistry teachers who pioneered the flipped learning model back in 2006. The pair recently co-wrote a book, published by ISTE and ASCD, called Flip Your Classroom. Defining what "flipping your classroom" meant was the first topic of conversation, which proved to be somewhat more difficult than you might expect. In fact, the reason the panel consisted of nine educators, instead of two or three, was precisely to demonstrate that there were many different ways to effectively flip a classroom. The flipped classroom has become somewhat synonymous with using videos to have students view lectures at home while in-class time is used for applied knowledge.
I've Copyrighted "Flipped Classroom" First, let me say, I have copyrighted the terms Flipped Classroom, Flipped Learning, Flipped Teaching and #flipclass. No one in the media can write a story using any of the terms without consulting me. No company can use any of these terms to promote a product without my approval. Yes, the problem is the amount of information and misinformation out there regarding Flipped Classroom/Learning/Teaching. “This measurement of progress could be a breakthrough, says Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, who tells Gupta that innovation never comes from the institutions themselves, but rather from visionary figures outside those institutions. I’ll concede, as I believe most flipclass proponents would, that flipping is not the end-all-be-all, silver bullet, magic potion, or panacea to solve all our educational problems. The reason I bring this up is because it is easy to argue with a flipclass opponent that they just don’t understand flipclass and that is why they bash it.
Can TED Talks Really Work in a Classroom? Teaching Strategies TED-Ed By Katrina Schwartz There’s been a lot of excitement around TED’s foray into education, bringing its inspirational video model to the classroom. But it’s a work in progress at the moment, until educators can figure out the best ways to use the videos. Under the math topic, for example, TED-Ed includes videos like How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon or Peter Donnelly Shows How Stats Fool Juries. “It’s by no means a comprehensive understanding. And it’s this curiosity that most teachers expect TED-Ed videos will feed. For example, Sams showed his class Just How Small is an Atom and incorporated the pre-made questions that accompanied it to give them a sense of awe about chemistry. TED-Ed videos aren’t meant to be a substitute for what happens in the classroom, said Logan Smalley, TED-Ed’s director. Stacey Roshan, a math teacher in Potomac, Maryland uses the videos in a similar way as Sams. But the real power of the new TED-Ed site is the platform itself.
What is a flipped classroom? How do you flip a classroom? Flipped Classroom A "flipped" classroom is where the students receive instruction at home by watching video lessons, and then they come to school to ready to apply the concepts. When I first heard about this, I thought "Wow, that's great for the older students... but not so much for our little elementary kids." I couldn't have been more wrong. Edmodo This year I really started using Edmodo. My students describe it as "Kid Facebook". They create a generic Avatar (profile picture), earn badges, list a favorite quote, as well as display their favorite learning style and career goals. Assignments I give Khan Academy videos for them to review at home. They are working for badges that stay on their profile- bragging rights. I also post a link to PearsonSuccessNet (Part of Scott Foresman/Reading Street/Envision Math) for them to work at home. Safety The students cannot directly contact one another. Edmodo Parent Permission Letter Teacher Resources Claco
cybraryman1: From @DaretoChem it's abou... Flipping the Flipped Classroom « thornburgthoughts Many years ago, when buzzword bonanza was hitting the world of business books, I wrote a joke booklet with the name: In Search of the One-Minute Megatrends. I was happy to see that I could include pieces of titles from three popular books at the time. Had I actually published such a book, it would likely have risen to the top of the heap, just based on the title alone. People like buzzwords. For one thing, they absolve you of actually having to think about the thing being described. I mention this because we are seeing a buzzword blast in education today that I think we should step back from a bit and think about quite carefully before jumping on the bandwagon. OK, let’s buy the idea that this riveting YouTube entry is better that the average cat video, what chance do students have to ask for help as the presentation is proceeding? But even this is not the reason I’m so concerned about “flipped” classrooms. But there is a positive side to this. Like this: Like Loading...
karimderrick: flipped in all subjects sh... Flipped Classroom Resistance Will Richardson has a nice piece about three popular terms in the education community now: Personalizing flipped engagement. While interesting commentary on all three, I was drawn into his commentary on the flipped classroom primarily because I find the pushback on this quite intriguing: As a high-school English teacher, I was flipping in the classroom in 1983, having my students read the literature at home and come into class ready to discuss it. That was flipping the curriculum, but it still wasn’t flipping the control of the learning. By assigning the lecture at home, we’re still in charge of delivering the curriculum, just at a different time. From what I’ve seen, flipping doesn’t do much for helping kids become better learners in the sense of being able to drive their own education. I get it. But I reminded of how many teachers haven’t even taken this step. There is little emphasis on the learner and learning. Beyond the Starting Point (slightly modified from this older post)
Lesson Structure - Flipped Class Guide You've found your online resources, made your videos, and created some online games that will help your students learn the concepts you plan to demonstrate during your flipped lesson. What now? Determine the structure of your online flipped lesson. Below is a sample structure: 1. 2. 3. Video 2-5 minute clips that are teacher-created or existing resources (i.e. 4. Interactive GamesExamples with steps for solving themWays to use the skills in real life 5. QuizDetermine the minimum achievement level (75%? 6. Decide how you will follow up in class to reinforce the skills learned. 1. Presentation (brief!) 2. This eSchool News article called Flipped learning: A response to five common criticisms contains excellent responses to questions and reservations about the flipped concept. 21st Century Fluency Project - Flipped Learning: A Response to 5 Common Criticisms (posted on Ian Jukes' blog and based on the eSchool News article above)
Resetting Education: YouTube and the Flipped classroom My social circle is populated with math-phobes, because I’m something of a math-phobe. It takes a lot of confidence and conviction to stand up and say definitively, “I have the answer! And lo, gaze upon it.” That’s one of the advantages to flipped classrooms—classes that switch up the traditional structure of lecture and homework so that students watch the lectures at home on their computers, and then engage with the material in the classroom. “I had parents who watched the videos so they could help their students,” said Will Kimbley, a seventh grade Computer Applications teacher in Fresno, California. Kimbley is one of the many teachers across the country who have found that the traditional classroom structure—lecture, in-class practice, feedback, and then an assignment to be done at home—was leaving many kids out of the loop. “Everybody learns at different rates and some people, like myself, really struggle to understand and absorb math concepts. How it got started YouTube EDU