Flipping the classroom – lesson 42
This lesson was devised to be presented as a staff workshop, exploring the concept of ‘Flipping the classroom’ or as is sometimes termed Reverse Instruction. I am indebted to my PLN for their assistance in writing this post. The response to my tweet asking for help in preparing this presentation was amazing. Enjoy reading and learning from these bloggers.
We started with this video by Aaron Sams in which he explains just how and why he flipped his classroom.
So just what is flipping the classroom? The term flipping refers to the increasingly popular practice of teachers creating videos, or podcasts of content so that students can watch and listen to their lessons for homework. Teachers follow this by using class-time for what previously, was done in homework. Such as tackling difficult problems, working in groups, researching, collaborating, and creating. What all educators agree on is though that flipping is only as good as the teacher delivering it. Read on, clicking the blue links for further information on flipping the classroom.
7 Stories From Educators About Teaching In The Flipped Classroom is a collection of seven articles on the topic of flipping the classroom, which have been collated by K. Walsh. He writes, There is a wealth of experienced, constructive knowledge shared in this content. If you wish to learn about what the flipped classroom is and what it isn’t, or just better understand how teachers have used this new-age model, then read on.
From Mind Shift:- How We Will Learn,a post by Shelley Wright called The Flip: Why I Love It, How I Use It Shelly discusses many of the issues around flipping, including many of the pros and cons.
She writes, The point of the flip is to capture more of the time when teacher and students are together for deeper learning. and The most important thing I do in my classroom is show students how to dig deep, solve problems, and reflect carefully on the constant stream of information that inundates us all.
From Josh Harnwell, the Assistant Head of Mathematics at Knox Grammar I have this slide share presentation. Josh raises the vital point about the need for parent as well as student education before commencing reverse instruction. Many of the students we teach have been used to being spoon fed content. Asking them to learn in new ways will be hard for some.
In the blog ‘User Generated Education: Education as it should be – passion-based’. Jackie Gerstein writes this post Flipped Classroom Full Picture: An Example Lesson . She references Harvard Professor Chris Dede and his Global Education 2011 keynote in which is states: ‘I think that the flipped classroom is an interesting idea if you want to do learning that is largely based on presentation. You use presentation outside of the classroom. Then you do your understanding of the presentation and further steps from the presentation inside the classroom. I think it is a step forward. It is still, in my mind, the old person. It’s still starting with presentational learning and then trying to sprinkle some learning-by-doing on top of it. I am interested more in moving beyond the flipped classroom to learning by doing at the center than a kind of the intermediate step that still centers on largely on tacit assimilation’.
Teachers who are interested in flipping their classroom should join The Flipped Class Network Ning for a wealth of information including instructional videos.
And finally this research article ‘This research study provides new insight into how teachers use social networking sites, such as Twitter, as professional learning networks.
So you are ready to flip your classroom use camtasia and Smoothdraw3 to create your own video tutorials.
