Welcome back to the Learn and Earn and thank you for letting me take that brief hiatus. Today's topic is one that you may have heard of, but may not know much about. We're talking about "flipping" your classroom. This idea has been around for a few years, and now it's really starting to get a lot of attention thanks to things like the Khan Academy.
The basic idea behind a flipped classroom is that by swapping what often traditionally happens (lecture) in the classroom with what traditionally happens as home (homework, projects, etc.), teachers can improve student learning, engagement, and increase the rigor in their classrooms and at the same time, save time. Let's start with a quick (2 minutes) introduction:
Sure, there's a little technology involved, but if you have a white board in your classroom and a laptop with a camera (which you do), you could get started flipping your classroom right away. (Not to mention that you also have an instructional technology coach (me) who would help you get started.) But, first, let's learn a bit more about it.
The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation offers several short videos on the topic. There are two short videos embeded on this page. Watch them to build your background knowledge about this topic. NOTE: One of the things I like is how these two teachers use minimal technology to achieve the "flip." Sure you can get fancier, but their approach of one-take videos and use of a white board makes it much more accessible.
What do you think? What questions does this raise for you? Do you see application for your classroom? Why or why not? Interested in some extra credit? Then, why not give it a try yourself? Like I said, I'd be happy to help you get started. Just let me know!
Thursday, April 26, 2012
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Get Ready to Flip for a New(ish) Model of Teaching
2012-04-26T17:40:00-07:00
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Marie Page · 674 weeks ago
Patty Stillmaker · 674 weeks ago
It not only gives us more time to reinforce the concepts, it gets the students using resources that are available to them. They come iin much more prepared for class.
If students don't have internet access at home they can either read through the book or view the videos during GO time.
We both have tried a lot of new things in our math classes this year. This is one we will be keeping .
Hilary Ledford (CH) · 674 weeks ago
Scott Hagensen CH · 673 weeks ago
Jennifer Dunham (CH) · 673 weeks ago
I was really having a hard time picturing this working in my class so I actually watched on of Katie's Algebra 1 videos on what I think is a pretty tough concept. Her video was very interesting. It has similar content and instruction to what I normally would do. Setup, examples etc. I would love to see more about how they actually apply it the next day. How do they structure the classroom to allow for the remediation she is talking about? Do they self-select groups to work in and she has different "homework" for each group? Does she do a "pretest" and then assign them? What does she do with those who didn't watch the video last night?
Jennifer Dunham (CH) · 673 weeks ago
Kimberly · 673 weeks ago
In response to your questions, I think if I were to implement this system, I would make sure that they wouldn't be able to really do what we were doing in class unless they had watched the lesson at home. I think most of my students would admit to not being prepared and then I'd send them into the hall or to the library to watch the lessons before they could work on the classwork in class. Yes, there were be some kids who would never watch the homework--but we have those kids now, and that doesn't stop us from moving on. I think there would actually be more motivation in a flipped situation to complete the work necessary to be in class the next day.
Rhonda Ham (CH) · 673 weeks ago
Kimberly10tech 66p · 673 weeks ago
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