Been reading a LOT about folks looking at the concept of Flipping the Classroom. There is a blog posted here about it. Would love your comments and thoughts on it!
Lisa
Interesting thought. Would love to be able to do that but I think sometimes the question lies with the "haves and have nots." Where we are the local library is not easily accessible to the students with special needs that I teach nor is there alway computer access at home. While I love the idea of tablets for all students again we run into the need for funding and other resources for the students. Even though I do not assign a great deal of homework (never can tell who is doing the assignments) I provide my activboard notes from the class. I have them printed up for the students to use if they wish.
Thanks for sharing this Lisa! I do like Salman’s idea to make learning self-paced, individualized and free the classroom to give teachers and students more time to interact with each other. I think Khan Academy is a good complementary to school learning, but I don’t think it’s necessary to flip every single lessons to Khan’s way. The reason is that Flipping Classroom is based on the idea that there is a clear line to separate each lesson to “tutorial time” and “practicing/interacting time”, but we know that this is not true in classroom. We don’t always have tutorial firstly and then practicing – we sometimes learn by doing through projects, or go outdoors. Additionally, I think there is an issue of age group—for young children, watching and listening to a tutorial is not always a good way to learn, they need to be more engaged to learn—both mentally and physically. Anyway, I think it’s really good that students can have the tutorials which they can access at anytime and learn at their own pace, and this can help teachers to get more time to interact with individual students and make the classroom more interactive.
Thanks. I also had a comment to this idea via twitter. The gentleman gave a great link to more information about flipping the classroom. I've posted it as a comment to the blog.
Very good information!
A tech director I work with is trying to do this by having teachers create their own eBooks. The teachers write/collect the content, links, videos, images and simulations, then create an eBook students can download onto their mobile device or read on a computer. The homework is to read the eBook and access the support materials, then come to class ready to discuss or, in the case of science, ready for a hands-on lesson. They have even built in links to Google forms that allow for student feedback, demonstration of understanding and assessment.
They're just getting started, but have seen an obvious change in the students' in class interactions and depth of knowledge and conversations.
That's very interesting Briana! What age group are these chidren? What if a kid doesn't have internet connection at home? Really want to hear more about it.
DingDing
These are high school students. They have access to iPads at school and most have some type of mobile device onto which they can download the ebook. Once it's downloaded, they don't need an internet connection.
We will initiate a pilot program this fall with 6 teachers from 5 different elementary schools. These 6 teachers will teach an Inverted Math Class 90 minutes each day from September through December. We will provide training for them at our Summer Institute (4 days) where they will construct pooled resources (instructional videos), set up a virtual PLC (ning), share in-class strategies, and discuss related issues (assessments, parent information, etc.). Check out this site:
http://vodcasting.ning.com/
At the end of the pilot project period, we intend to compare data (student performance data, parent observations, teacher observations, student observations) with control groups in our district.
ActivInspire Recorder is one method for capturing the instructional movies.
I am interested in experimenting with this as well. I intend to create tutorials or lessons for home use for my high school AP calculus class. I am trying to create lessons and I am investigating different technology to get this done.
Does anyone know if ActivTablet is the only graphics tablet that will work with ActivInspire? How else could I get videos or problem demonstrations on line? I am aware of AcivInspire Recorder.
I would imagine that any graphics tablet would work. I assume you want to record your writing on the flipchart page, right?
There are other recording software that you could use in addition to the Activinspire recorder (which is free). I have used Camtasia (not free). I THINK the new macs have a recorder tool built in. Jing in another one. How to get them online is another question. I think Camtasia offers this for free but not sure.
I have been playing playing with my new ActivTablet all afternoon and I just cannot write as well as on my board.
The writing (text) is too big and the pen misses pen strokes. I have been experimenting with settings and it has improved some.
I am curious. Could I add sound later. I want a mix of completed flip charts and real-time writing of solved problems. It's just that I cannot write well enough with the ActivTablet to record that writing.
I might have to embed video of me writing on a whiteboard for that kind of video. I can then combine the two types, I guess if video editing software?
I use Camtasia but I prepare my flipcharts with graphics in advance and minimize the recording of writing if possible
I am going to use prepared graphics as much as possible, but as I teach Algebra and Calculus, I assume that I need to show problems being completed somehow.
Camtasia is expensive. Wow. I just assumed I could do what I want with ActivStudio.
There are many alternatives. I'm lucky that someone bought Camtasia for me. ActivInspire has a screen recorder, too and I think there is something else free called Jing. I've not used Jing though. I also think that the Apple OS has a screen recorder built in. Has anyone used it?