What To Do Inside the ‘Flipped Class’ ‘Flipping Activities’ The basic premise – students watch video lesson at home and work through problems in class. This allows the educator to advise and challenge the students inside the classroom safe in the knowledge content is delivered elsewhere. Of course, this is not a new concept, students have always been asked to prepare for the next class. Technology has just made it more stimulating to learn at home. Educators can edit their videos to provoke thought and assign work to be collected electronically and annotated before the next contact time. So what to do in the classroom? My personal view – anything that can enhance learning. There is nothing wrong with the delivery of content with stimulating development tasks and thought provoking plenary and those educators are very successful and students learn a great deal. So what to do in the ‘flipped class’? I am well aware that techniques, like these, have been used for many years by educators across the land. Like this: Like Loading...
The Online Learning Teaching Techniques The world of online education is exciting for its potential to reach students individually, but what teaching techniques can do this? Online Learning Strengths Online learning strengths lie in student empowerment, flexibility, accommodation, customization, collaboration, and creation. Students are empowered through online learning in a number of ways. Often times, students can customize portions of the course management system (CMS) used by their school for their own personal preference, such as including a picture of themselves; changing the background color, font or font size for reading clarity; and even setting notifications. Why the traditional learning theories do not work The traditional learning theory of ‘sage on the stage’, also known as passive transmittal learning, emphasizes the teacher as the center of the learning process. A student-center approach to learning is often referred to as the teacher being ‘the guide on the side’. What do you think? References Get 2 Free eBooks
The American Historian: Eight Tips for Flipping Your American History Classroom My journey into the realm of the flipped classroom began about two years ago with my eighth-grade American history class. My goal was to reduce the amount of lecturing and increase student involvement in their learning. During that journey I have made countless mistakes, but I can honestly say that flipping my class was one of the best decisions I have made in my fourteen-year teaching career. For me, the benefit of the flipped class model is that teachers take on an increased role as a coach, working with students on an individual basis frequently. My students typically watch two to three screencasts (videos that capture my onscreen lessons along with the audio of my lectures) every week. Each video is no longer than ten minutes and most are considerably shorter. Below are eight tips for flipping your history classroom based on my experiences incorporating the flipped model into my classes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Thoughts of a Maths Teacher Using Tech for Learning 12 Ways to Create Flipped Learning Content - No. 4: The FIZZ Method - Flipped Learning Network Hub The FIZZ Method is a Straightforward, Low Tech Method for Creating Quality Flipped Content Welcome our 4th installment in this series examining different approaches to creating flipped or blended lessons. So far we’ve taken a look at screencasting, narrating over Powerpoint slides, and using ed.ted.com. Today we explore the “FIZZ Method”. Dr. Lodge McCammon developed this “low-barrier” approach to creating flipped content. In the video below, we see the FIZZ method in action while Dr. It’s “Low Barrier”: it’s simple and very low-techIt requires a deeper level of thinking/planning (and this is a good thing!) Explore it for yourself: So there you have it … the FIZZ Method. We’ll be back next week with the 5th entry in this series.
Our 6 Favorite Flipped Classroom Resources | Screencastify Screen Recorder for Chrome If you’re a teacher, you’re already well aware that a wave of technology has infiltrated nearly every classroom. Flipped classrooms are no longer a theoretical revolution on the horizon – they’ve arrived and they’re here to stay. Since our screen recorder is used in thousands of flipped classrooms around the world, we were able to survey a handful of our most innovative customers about their favorite flipped classroom resources. We wanted to share some of the highlights of those conversations, so we selected a few great companies paving the way to a better, more effective flipped classroom. Our criteria for this list was simple: Ease of use. Without further ado, here’s our list (in no particular order) of the best resources and tools for flipped classrooms, along with some app smashing tips. PowToon PowToon allows teachers to bring lessons to life by allowing them to create animated cartoons super easily. App Smash Teacher Tip: Show your students how to become professional animators! TEDEd
Classroom Management and the Flipped Class | Edutopia Editor's Note:This post was co-authored by Aaron Sams, CEO of Sams Learning Designs, LLC and founding member of the Flipped Learning Network. Let's face it. We teachers spend far too much time and energy trying to keep students quiet so that they can listen to us. What if the goal of class was for the students to actively engage in the content and participate in tangible ways in the learning process? Noise Is Good As we pioneered the flipped class, we got away from the front of the room and got a whole different perspective on what classroom management could look like. As we did this, the dynamics of the classroom dramatically changed. But, as with any change, we found some new challenges. 4 New Management Issues Who Gets My Time? Since the teacher is not delivering direct instruction each day, they are spending their time interacting with, challenging, and directing individuals or groups. Redirecting Off-Task Kids Becomes More Important Freedom for Some and Control for Others
Making the Most of Your Flipped Classroom's In-Class Time For first-time flippers, it can be easy to get wrapped up in the initial challenges of planning and producing pre-class lecture materials, and lose sight of what that up-front effort earns you. When you walk into your flipped classroom, you’ll have a room full of informed students, ready to dig in and explore the day’s lesson together with you. This is arguably the element of the flipped classroom most essential to long-term success. Done well, the interactive class time you’ve cultivated by flipping will justify itself in improved student participation, interaction, and performance. Yet, achieving that student-centered learning experience isn’t a given. Depending on the subject and how the students in the classroom learn best, there is almost no limit to the number of ways instructors can structure their flipped class time for maximum interactivity and learning. Let’s look into some of the most common types of flipped classroom structures: The Inverted Classroom Case-based Learning
54 Flipped Classroom Tools For Teachers And Students - 54 Flipped Classroom Tools For Teachers And Students by TeachThought Staff The flipped classroom has continued to enjoy momentum years after its introduction, speaking to its flexible nature, and to the need for a real change in thinking in how we think of time and space in education. Technology has been, more than anything else, the catalyst for the flipped movement. With YouTube now nearly as ubiquitous as the television in many homes, access to video content is more seamless than ever. Further, teachers have taken advantage of not just video channels but a collective video literacy to realize the potential of flipping the classroom. Below is a list 54 flipped classrooms tools for teachers and students–both equally important because in a flipped classroom, both teachers and students are consistently interacting with technology, often independently and asynchronously. 54 Flipped Classroom Tools For Teachers And Students
A Radical Approach to Teaching Canadian Students in the Digital Age This fall, Graham Johnson gave up lecturing to his students. YouTube, he figured, could handle that. So he had his math classes at Okanagan Mission Secondary School in Kelowna, B.C., watch prerecorded video lessons from home – freeing up school time for one-on-one work. Turns out pixelated teaching works well: His students’ grades are up about 5 per cent. But that may not be enough. How can we compete with countries like South Korea, which is arming every child with an iPad in a push for a paperless education system by 2015? The problem is that technology doesn’t have a proven payoff. What’s needed isn’t simply technology, but a radical shift in education for the digital age – the courage to address uncomfortable questions. For example, when students can access information online, what’s the value of a teacher at the front of a class? Take Mr. It not only re-imagines how to teach kids – but when they learn and from whom. The flipped classroom isn’t without skeptics. Mr. Mr. Mr.
How to Create Great Flipped Classroom Video Content When you’re ready to begin developing your flipped class lecture materials, the first question is often the most elemental: What should I include? For many instructors, the initial answer is simply to record the lecture content that would typically be presented in front of the class. With little more than a laptop and some screen recording software, you can capture a slide presentation along with webcam video of yourself in order to deliver a familiar classroom experience online. Additionally, the flipped classroom can offer an opportunity to experiment with new formats and media to deliver lecture material in different, often more engaging ways. Without the constraints of the classroom or class time, many instructors shorten their content to “microlectures,” incorporate multimedia curated from across the web, and take their students on virtual tours by recording content in the field. 1. Watch a sample flipped classroom cloud computing lecture below: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Tip: Keep it short!