4 Pillars & 11 Indicators Of Flipped Learning 4 Pillars & 12 Standards Of Flipped Learning by Kari M. Arfstrom, Executive Director of the Flipped Learning Network Flipped Learning Defined 10 Common Misconceptions About The Flipped Classroom, by Kelly Walsh, offered some insight. TeachThought has published numerous articles about flipped classroom in the recent past, so it’s only fitting that the Flipped Learning Network™ (FLN) share its latest resource about the definition of Flipped Learning. The governing board and key leaders of FLN, all experienced flipped educators, released a whitepaper today distinguishing between a Flipped Classroom and Flipped Learning. While often defined simplistically as “school work at home and home work at school,” Flipped Learning is an approach that allows teachers to implement a methodology, or various methodologies, in their classrooms. 4 Pillars & 11 Standards Of Flipped Learning The Definition of Flipped Learning For a downloadable PDF of the definition, Pillars and Indicators, click here. Kari M.
Paper vs digital reading is an exhausted debate The digital revolution is going into a decline, Tim Waterstone told the Oxford literary festival. Well, it's an attention-grabbing statement, ideally suited to our culture of assertive headlines, but it's probably not true. That's not to say that the rapid growth of digital will necessarily continue, either, certainly not in markets that are already saturated with handheld devices. Why? Because the future is – as William Gibson told us quite a long time ago now – not evenly distributed. In fact, if one thing is ubiquitous these days it would seem to be liminality. Digital will continue to grow for a while at least, and continue to exist, because it is becoming part of the world we inhabit at a level below our notice, no more remarkable than roads or supermarkets. By the same token, paper has a place in our hybrid future. It's time to look beyond our borders rather more, and see that we are part of the world.
The Flipped Classroom Infographic Blended Learning Infograpics The Flipped Classroom Infographic explores how educators are reorganizing the classroom to deliver instruction online, outside of class and using class time for “homework”. The infographic takes a close look at educational technology and activity learning as new, effective learning models that are driven by historically poor learning models and a prevalence of new technology resources. Via: www.knewton.com Embed This Education Infographic on your Site or Blog!
Get the Lecture before You Even Arrive in Class Ignoring the advice of friends, Wilfrid Laurier University honours psychology student Sari Isenstein chose a second-year organic chemistry course as one of her electives. “Chemistry is not my forte and organic chemistry is one of the hardest courses offered at the university,” says Isenstein, 21, who graduates next year. She took the course in 2012 as a challenge, earning an A in the first semester and an A-minus in the second. She credits her professor, Stephen MacNeil, a recent convert to an innovative teaching method known as the “flipped” or “inverted” classroom. It’s a pedagogical approach that is catching on at universities across the country, redefining the relationship between professor and student. Instead of a traditional three-hour lecture, the professor prepares online video lectures, slide shows of core content and quizzes for students to work on before class – hence the flip. What’s prompting the interest in the new approach? For Dr. MacNeil’s Aha! Dr. Explain Evaluate Ease up
Tim Waterstone Predicts eBooks Will Decline. Also, Horseless Carriages are just a Fad Tim Watersone, founder of the UK bookstore chain, had an old geezer moment at the Oxford Literary Festival last week. The Telegraph is reporting that Waterstone has predicted that ebooks would decline: The so-called e-book “revolution” will soon go into decline, the founder of Waterstones has said, insisting that the traditional physical book is here to stay.Tim Waterstone, who founded the bookshop chain in 1982, argued that the printed word was far from dead and Britain’s innate love of literature had made books one of the most successful consumer products ever.He added that he had heard and read “more garbage about the strength of the e-book revolution than anything else I’ve known”.…“I think you read and hear more garbage about the strength of the e-book revolution than anything else I’ve known,” Mr Waterstone told the audience in Oxford. If you go read the original article you’ll see that the Telegraph mentions that the UK ebook market was worth £300 million in 2013.
The inverted calculus course and self-regulated learning - Casting Out Nines A few weeks ago I began a series to review the Calculus course that Marcia Frobish and I taught using the inverted/flipped class design, back in the Fall. I want to pick up the thread here about the unifying principle behind the course, which is the concept of self-regulated learning. Self-regulated learning is what it sounds like: Learning that is initiated, managed, and assessed by the learners themselves. An instructor can play a role in this process, so it’s not the same thing as teaching yourself a subject (although all successful autodidacts are self-regulating learners), but it refers to how the individual learner approaches learning tasks. For example, take someone learning about optimization problems in calculus. The learner works actively on optimization problems as the primary form of learning. Even before I started working with the inverted/flipped classroom, what I just described is a picture of what I envisioned for my students. Back to the story about calculus.
Toward Canadian Public Education 2.0 In a demographically challenged and technology fuelled world, where talent and ideas are the new wealth of nations, are we adequately focused on the role of a strong public education for our future success in Canada? The concern that we are not was the impetus for a recent education summit, organized by the Learning Partnership, where leaders from business, government, public policy and education came together to contemplate what public education 2.0 needs to look like, and how we might get there from here. The good news is that Canada is doing well in the basics: Canadian students’ reading, mathematics and science test scores were sixth, 10th and eighth, respectively, among OECD countries in the most recent Program for International Student Assessment. By comparison, U.S. students had respective rankings of 31st, 23rd and 17th. Today, we see a growing mismatch between “people without jobs” and “jobs without people,” and we simply have to do better at aligning the two.
The Digital Networked Textbook: Is It Any Different? Let's speculate that before this year's cohort of first-year teachers retires from math education more than 50% of American classrooms will feature 1:1 technology. That's a conservative prediction – both in the timeline and the percentage – and it's more than enough to make me wonder what makes for good curricula in a 1:1 classroom. What are useful questions to ask? Here's the question I ask myself whenever I see new curricula crop up for digital networked devices like computer, laptops, tablets, and phones. Is it any different? That isn't a rhetorical or abstract question. Digital If you print out each page of the digital networked curriculum, is it any different? The answer here is "sort of." When I look at iBooks in the iBookstore from Pearson and McGraw-Hill or when I see HMH publish their Algebra Fuse curriculum in the App Store, I see lots of features and, yes, they require a digital medium. So the question becomes, "Is it different enough?" I don't think so. Networked More Different
FLN Shares its Four Pillars of Flipped Learning Flipped Learning | News FLN Shares its Four Pillars of Flipped Learning To counter common misconceptions and offer educators a practical framework for Flipped Learning, the governing board and key leaders of the Flipped Learning Network (FLN) today announced a formal definition of the term. According to Aaron Sams, FLN board member and coauthor of Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, "One of the biggest misconceptions is that the main component of Flipped Learning is the use of video … although video is a very important component of Flipped Learning, the most valuable benefit is the enhanced use of class time to get students engaged in higher-order thinking." Along with the definition, FLN announced its Four Pillars of F-L-I-P and a checklist of 11 supporting indicators for educators. Flexible Environment Educators can create flexible spaces in which students choose when and where they learn. Learning Culture Intentional Content Professional Educator
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