The Flipped Classroom

1. The Flipped Classroom TheFlippedClassroom

2. Topics • What is the flipped classroom? • Why would I flip my classroom? • When would I flip my classroom? • How do I implement the flipped classroom? • Strategies, strategies, strategies! • Tools I can use

3. What is the flipped classroom? • Reverse instruction • Using technology to increase the learning in your classroom • Teacher spends more time interacting with students in class • Idea is to flip the common instructional approach • Lecture – Guided Practice – Independent Practice • Take the lecture out of the classroom

4. What is the flipped classroom? • Class becomes a place to: • Work problems • Advance learning • Engage in collaborative learning • Teach on your feet and not in your seat • Personalize for students

6. What it shouldn’t be? • Online videos only • An online course • Students working without structure • Students working on a computer screen only • Students working in isolation • Replacement of teachers

7. What the flipped classroom should be?Online instruction at home frees class time for learning. • Interactive and engaging • Activities aimed to instruct students • Students take responsibility • Direct instruction mixed with active learning • Innovative learning

8. How Flipping started? 2007 – current model • Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams at Woodland Park, Colorado • Recorded lectures using PowerPoint for students missing class • Found that those who weren’t missing class also liked having the review available • Bergmann and Aaron Sams textbook: • Textbook: Flip Your Classroom, Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. 

9. Not just Videos • Not the videos but how they are integrated • Captivate, Camtasia, Screencasting • Interactive • Questioning (inline questioning) • Don’t reinvent the wheel • Khan Academy • Ted Talks • YouTube

10. Not just Videos • Publisher’s software • Short instructional videos with interaction • SoftChalk • Lesson design software with interactive components • Interactive Simulations • SAM, MyITLab

11. Not just Videos • University of Phoenix model • Create interest in video • Collaborate with instructors • Share videos • Use strengths in videoing • Using digital textbooks

12. Analytics • Learning to study smarter not harder • Software that questions in a way to find what you already know and what you don’t know • Are you sure you know the answer? • Are you pretty sure you know the answer? • Just guessing • Assignments based on what you don’t know

14. When would I flip my classroom? • Community College • Began as method to blended learning • Now used in other classes • High School • Began as way to catch students up • Review and keyword search advantage for students

15. Tips from those who have • Train students to use videos • Pause and rewind • Write down questions • Cornell method of note-taking • Record notes • Write down questions • Spend first 10 minutes of class answering questions • Use questions to improve videos

16. Additional Thoughts and Tips • Embrace the student’s technology • Used to using videos for information and learning • Infiltrating their digital culture instead of fighting it • Helps busy students • Helps struggling students • Allows differentiation for differing abilities

17. Why Flipping Flops? • Time-consuming • Technology not available • Teacher Training missing • Replacement of teacher • Unrealistic expectations

18. Comments from Instructor Blogs • If the choice was between lecturing in front of passive students vs. flipped classroom, I'd certainly choose flipping. • Can anyone answer if you are all video-taping your OWN lectures each time? It sounds as if teachers also are referring to other sources. • What do you do if students don’t have the devices to use to make this happen?

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20. How did we do? • What is the flipped classroom? • Why would I flip my classroom? • When would I flip my classroom? • How do I implement the flipped classroom? Evaluation

21. Resources • The Flipped Classroom Myths. Accessed July 4, 2013. http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php • Educational Vodcasting. Accessed July 5, 2013. http://flippedclassroom.com/ • 15 Schools Using Flipped Classroom. Accessed July 5, 2013. http://www.edudemic.com/2011/12/15-flipped-classrooms/ • Tucker, Bill. The Flipped Classroom: Education Next. Accessed July 3, 2013. http://educationnext.org/the-flipped-classroom/

22. More Resources • 12 Screencasting Tools. Accessed July 1, 2013. http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/ • FrontRow Juno. Accessed July 10, 2013. http://gofrontrow.com/en/products/frontrow-juno/flipped-classroom?gclid=CNm2n5zXrrgCFWNgMgodrVMA-w • What flipped classrooms can (and can’t do) for education today? Accessed July 10, 2013. http://neatoday.org/2013/03/29/what-flipped-classrooms-can-and-cant-do-for-education/ • Bergmann, A. & Sams, J. Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day

23. Technology is not the answer, and it’s not the enemy.” Mike Kaspar

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