Top Apps for Flipping your Classroom or Gym « The Flipped Coach iMovie: iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad While not necessarily the first app to come to mind for flipping your classroom, this app is invaluable for making simple edits on recordings that you have made. Most recording or capturing software on iPad, iPhone, or iPod's do not have the ability to pause and restart recordings. iMovie also allows you to cut clips up and piece together your final movie. Coach's Eye: This easily is my favorite app because it allows me to take a video and telestrate on the screen with amazing control and detail. Display Recorder: Currently pulled from the iTunes store. This app is new and fills a huge void in the screencapture category. ScreenChomp: Free! iPad only. This is a simple whiteboard app that allows you to record drawings and audio in multiple colors. Explain Everything: This app lets you annotate, animate and narrate presentations.
New Flipped vs Old Flipped IPads in classrooms offer such a new learning environment that they demand a shift from the idea of students being passive receivers of learning and demand real engagement and learning ownership by the students themselves. However, even the original 90s design of the Flipped Classroom designed by pioneers like Eric Mazur is still teacher centred. Although students are individually watching the video lessons in their own time and at their own pace and then arrive in class with more specific questions, the approach is still driven by the teacher and focused on the linear course of study that the teacher designs to start at point A, travel through to point Z and then sit an exam in that specific content. This is the Flipped Classroom that receives attacks from teachers as just “lecturing in disguise.” This original version of Flipped Classroom is an improvement on the one-size-fits-all traditional lecturing but does not encourage students to take full responsibility for their learning.
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.
Poster: 21stC Mobile Social Learning Here’s my summary of how I aim to teach but appreciate this will change rapidly over the years. …and thanks to Nicolas Chauvin (@nxchauvin) for this French translation: Like this: Like Loading... 35 Sources for Curated Educational Videos Like explorers approaching an unfamiliar landscape, teachers who are ready to take the plunge into flipped classrooms and blended learning often approach the opportunity with a mix of excitement and trepidation. Just dipping a toe into the virtual waters of online content can be overwhelming, and there’s a risk that even the most fearless educator can become paralyzed by the bottomless depths of content and endless pools of resources. While many teachers begin by creating their own content and videos, most start by sifting through free online sources. The amount of available information out there is staggering. YouTube users across the globe upload 48 hours of content every minute. And a google search for “science video” yields over 4 billion results! Fortunately, there are some great websites and services that take the guesswork out of finding and sorting educational video content.
The 5 Most Overhyped Trends in Education « Looking Up For your perusal, a completely subjective list of five things happening right now in education that are getting lots of notice, energy and resources but don’t deserve it, and why I think we need to reconsider our collective love affair with them: 1. Flipping The Class: What is it? “…a form of blended Learning which encompasses any use of Internet technology to leverage the learning in a classroom, so a teacher can spend more time interacting with students instead of lecturing. What’s The Problem? The problems with flipping are well explained in “The Flip: End of a Love Affair“. The short form is: It entrenches homeworkIt depends on lecturing, a one way transfer of information to the student from the teacher, rather than allowing the student to construct their own understandings and meaning by interacting with the information.It doesn’t account for students that don’t have the resources to learn at home (e.g. technology, family support, etc.) What is it? What’s the problem? It’s inequitable.
Personalizing flipped engagement Will Richardson Three words seem to be dancing around in my head of late when it comes to current thinking about education: “personalization,” “engagement” and “flip.” All three were on display on the vendor floor and in session rooms at last week’s International Society for Technology in Education conference in San Diego, one of the largest ed tech conferences in the world attended by upward of 18,000 people. At first blush, they are words that seem to promote a vision of better learning for kids. Let’s set some of that context first. At this sudden moment of abundance, I totally get why we want to “personalize” education for each child. Well, I struggle with that picture on a couple of levels. We don’t need personalization as much as we need to promote and give opportunities for our kids to do personal learning. Similarly, the word “engagement” gets very little pushback in the conversation. In a word, that’s bunk.
IPad = Flipped Classroom Made Easy | iPad 4 SCHOOLS Yes, the Flipped Classroom (Video lessons watched before class time) is a fashionable topic but whilst there’s still chalk-and-talk together with standardised testing I feel I must continue to push it. And no, it’s not just chalk-and-talk in disguise. It creates a whole new learning environment for the student. I haven’t taught a whole class for 6 months! Flipping my classroom has changed my career. Why should all teachers flip their classroom? Online videos should replace all whole-class teaching because: Not every student listens to teachers when surrounded by distractionsStudents understand at differing levels when lessons are one-offsSome students need the teaching at a different pace (both faster or slower) to what’s delivered in the classroom. So here’s my workflow for those who are interested 1. 2. 3. STEP 1: Online Account setup Having a google/gmail account does automatically give you a YouTube account but you have to login to YouTube specifically to activate the video storage.
Kid Power: How Technology is Changing the Learning Experience Brady Hesse, an eighth-grader at Bridgetown Middle School in Cincinnati, likes all things digital. That's not unusual for boys his age, many of whom would rather play video games than do just about anything else. So when Hesse heard about an opportunity to play with computers during the school day, he jumped at the chance. "I didn't really know what we were going to do," Hesse adds, "but I like using technology." Soon, he was creating and animating his own digital sketches. Although Hesse and other eKIDs participants weren't familiar with the software when the semester began, they learned quickly. Origin Story Concerned that technology wasn't being used to its full potential, a team of teachers and administrators led by Tracy Pirkle, OHLSD's director of curriculum and eLearning, conceived of the eKIDs program in summer 2009. Photo: Jonathan Robert Willis So Pirkle and her colleagues wrote a curriculum and launched eKIDs as a pilot program in fall 2010. Knowledge Is Power Modus Operandi
Why I Gave Up Flipped Instruction A little over a year ago I wrote a post about the flipped classroom, why I loved it, and how I used it. I have to admit, the flip wasn’t the same economic and political entity then that it is now. And in some ways, I think that matters. Here’s the thing. When I recently re-read the post, I didn’t disagree with anything I’d said. When I wrote that post, I imagined the flip as a stepping stone to a fully realized inquiry/PBL classroom. What is the flip? The flipped classroom essentially reverses traditional teaching. When I first encountered the flip, it seemed like a viable way to help deal with the large and sometimes burdensome amount of content included in my senior Biology & Chemistry curricula. My flipped experiments I first encountered the flip in a blog post. My students loved the idea of trying something that very few other students were doing. We began to shift What was my role? The flip faded away As this shift occurred, the flip simply disappeared from our classroom. No.