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Visual Lesson Plans

Here are some tools I’m developing for visualizing how learning tasks are represented in a lesson plan:

Google Docs with Tree Maps

As you adjust the values in a spreadsheet, Google adjusts the relative sizes of the regions representing them. I got this idea from this chart by Russell Mumper visualizing the structure and flow of flipped learning in his class.

See this Google spreadsheet. Make a copy in Google Docs, tweak the values, and see the results.

Lesson Plan Region Generator

Enter numerical values (representing minutes or percentages) and see a graph visualizing the portion of a lesson devoted to each task.

See this live demo. On my wish list is to enable users to enter their own links and assignment instructions, and to embed the result in a Learning Management System. For just the region generator can be edited. Enter your own values or click "Try Example" and click "Go."

Static Templates

See these templates. Make copies in Google Docs and edit as needed.

For more background, see my presentation on flipped learning at ICE Indiana 2014.

Four Concerns About Personalized Learning

From Alfie Kohn:

1. The tasks have been personalized for kids, not created by them. ... 2. Education is about the transmission of bits of information, not the construction of meaning. ... 3. The main objective is just to raise test scores. ... 4. It’s all about the tech. ...

FlipCon 15 Pre-Work for 50 Ideas for Flipped Learning

1. Watch the video.

2. Review the list of ideas and pedagogical values in the Idea Box.

3. Submit your responses.

4. See you at FlipCon!

Update: View slides.

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Flipped Learning Presentation at ICE Indiana 2014

Flip Your Classroom with Free Tools ICE Indiana 2014 Nathan Bierma

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Links & Resources Flipped Lesson Structure Charts Learning Report Samples Russell Mumper article & presentation Tara Maynard slides bridgeurl of 20+ links on flipped learning

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Flipped Learning Resource Roundup: Rationale

The purpose of the flipped classroom is to properly align passive reception and active response with isolated and collective learning environments:

Mumper:

... shifiting the acquisition of knowledge and content outside the classroom and freeing up class time to enable more meaningful faculty-student interaction and student engagement in higher forms of thinking and problem-solving.

Flipped Learning Network:

Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter.

#flipped #flip #iceflip2014 #flipseries

Flipped Learning Resource Roundup: Links

Here is a bridgeurl of 20-25 links on flipped learning.

Below are my top five links for overviews of what flipped learning is:

Definition of Flipped Learning from Flipped Learning Network

7 Things You Should Know About Flipped Classrooms from Educause

What is a Flipped Classroom? from Edudemic

The Pedagogy of Flipping from Flipping the Classroom

Flipping the Classroom 101: A Self-Paced, Short Course from the Peer Instruction Blog

The Flipped Classroom Model: A Full Picture from User Generated Education

View all: bridgeurl.com/portable-pedagogy-flipped-learning-link-roundup-2014/all

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Flipped Learning Resource - Melissa Bersano

Melissa Bersano, Shippensburg University

Flipped Classroom Lesson Plan resources - including template, rubric, and checklist

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Flipped Learning Resource: Russell Mumper

Russell Mumper, Vice Dean, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina

The Post-Lecture Classroom - feature on Russell Mumper in The Atlantic

A Three-Year Study in the Flipped Classroom - presentation by Russell Mumper

#flip #flipped #iceflip2014 #flipseries #mumper #echo360

Ikea spoof shows the user experience advantages of bound print

In addition to being a pitch-perfect parody, this Ikea spot shows that old technology can retain user experience advantages in the very categories where new technology claims victories.

Technological adaptation and adoption as a proxy for an institution's success

Israel Galindo at Grace-ed.org:

While technology is never a silver bullet for addressing the challenges of the complex and messy work of teaching and learning, I find that an educational organization’s attitude and perspective toward the embrace of “new” and emerging technology is a good indicator of how adaptive it is—and, a rather unscientific indicator of its ability to succeed in the marketplace of the business of education.

This post uses Roger’s Diffusion of Innovation model, for more on that see this blog post.

#reading #articlles #quotes #adaptation #technology #education #higher education

Tidbits on Teaching Teachers from NYT Magazine Story on Teaching Math

From NYT Magazine:

The sociologist Dan Lortie calls the phenomenon the apprenticeship of observation. Teachers learn to teach primarily by recalling their memories of having been taught, an average of 13,000 hours of instruction over a typical childhood. The apprenticeship of observation exacerbates what the education scholar Suzanne Wilson calls education reform’s double bind. The very people who embody the problem — teachers — are also the ones charged with solving it.

Most policies aimed at improving teaching conceive of the job not as a craft that needs to be taught but as a natural-born talent that teachers either decide to muster or don’t possess. Instead of acknowledging that changes like the new math are something teachers must learn over time, we mandate them as “standards” that teachers are expected to simply “adopt.” We shouldn’t be surprised, then, that their students don’t improve.

Reality check on educational technology hype

Michael Trucano at WorldBank.org, quoted in Slate:

The best technology is the one you already have, know how to use, and can afford. ...

Too many planning efforts related to large scale investments in ICT use in education dwell too long on what is possible, while ignoring much of what is predictable, and in the end what is practical ...

A Brief History of Technology in Education

Kevin Carey in Slate:

We all have, consciously or otherwise, a vision of perfect education: two people, a master and student, sitting together, talking. The classic Aristotelian tutorial model. When the king of Macedon wanted to educate his son Alexander, he simply hired the smartest person in the world. The first information technology to alter that model was the written word. Like all ed-tech innovations, it was highly controversial at the time. Socrates was deeply skeptical of writing.

#slate #socrates #technology #writing

Nicholas Kristof on Academia's Willful Unintelligibility and Irrelevance

Nicholas Kristof in the NY Times:

Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.

The most stinging dismissal of a point is to say: “That’s academic.” In other words, to be a scholar is, often, to be irrelevant. ...

Yet it’s not just that America has marginalized some of its sharpest minds. They have also marginalized themselves. ...

A basic challenge is that Ph.D. programs have fostered a culture that glorifies arcane unintelligibility while disdaining impact and audience.

Idea Box Pedagogical Value: Wider Net

Digital media enables access and exposure to a wider variety of resources than ever. Rather than read and respond to a single author or textbook, when students are asked to cast a wider net and they can engage with more sources. This is fitting preparation for professional and personal use of media in which they will encounter a proliferation of choices and voices.

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Idea Box Pedagogical Value: Visual Fluency

Historically education has valued text-based materials and assignments more than visual ones. Visual fluency can add new depth to learning and is an essential skill to cultivate in a multimedia age.

Idea Box #32: Concept Mapping

Idea Box #33: Word Clouds

Idea Box #34: Artistic Response

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Idea Box Pedagogical Value: Oral Presentation

As important and urgent as writing skills are, an increasing amount of professional communication is oral. The skill of public speaking, both face-to-face and via a webcam, is essential to cultivate.

Related Ideas

Idea Box #11: Video Thread

Idea Box #18: Explain it to Me

Idea Box #52: Job Interview

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