#flipped class

[the-problem-child]

me: *is proud of my biology notes that look nice* i actually did a decent job!

also me: *remembers the rest of my biology homework* ew.

[studentsofhistory]

Roles of the President Flipped Classroom PowerPoint

This activity on Roles of the President is perfect for a Civics or American Government class on the Executive Branch! The download includes a PowerPoint overview of the 7 key roles of the President, plus guided notes and graphic organizer

Here’s a new Flipped Classroom resource for American Government! Includes PowerPoint, graphic organizer, and narrated video! 

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7 Amazing Facts about Flipped Learning

Flipped Classrooms have been around as an offshoot of blended learning methodology for more than a decade, now. In the flipped classroom, your students study at home and bring the homework to school. All conceptual learning, inquiries happen in the class, during a discussion with an instructor/mentor. Typically the class of students is divided into small groups which help the students to discuss, clarify, learn from each other during the review of study material. Flipped Learning in a School Setting Ms. Jenn Williams (RVS teacher)[1] is a social science teacher who wanted all of her students to be engaged, instead of just a handful. Jenn explained how she implemented the flipped classroom in her traditional class. Ms. Williams took the lecture component and broke them down to 10-minute videos, which the students got to see at home. She would then discuss the concept in class and give them projects/or research work that the students would complete by themselves or in small groups. Ms.Williams experienced that the students were more engaged and got great feedback from them. She has inspired other teachers to try the flipped learning techniques/flipped classroom model. Why is the Flipped Classroom Amazing? The flipped classroom teaching has found favor with many teachers because of the methodology: Increases learning dynamics interplay of time, pace, path, and place Videos are an excellent tool to review concepts as students have the option to re-visit videos any time. In case the student has missed a class or wants more clarity on a particular theory, the videos are there for them to view again, at their convenience. If students don’t have access to the internet, teachers could give videos on pen drives, hard drives / burn cd, etc. to enable students to learn using the videos. In another format called the in-class... Read More

[mrvanw]

Genius Hour in our Flipped Classroom: First impressions

Genius Hour in our Flipped Classroom: First impressions and examples

I’ve written before that one of the greatest assets of the Flipped Learning is that it has allowed us more time for creativity. Because of this extra time, we thought we’d try giving it back to the students – so this year we are trialing Genius Hour. So what is a Genius Hour? Genius Hour became quite trendy for a while a few years ago and really started to take off in the world of…

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[mrvanw]

Benefits of the Flipped Classroom: Creativity

Benefits of the Flipped Classroom: Creativity #FlippedClassroom #FlippedClass #Flippedlearning

Why would I want to flip my classes? What are the benefits of the flipped classroom? These are two questions that I get asked quite a lot and to be honest, I understand why. Most people who aren’t familiar with the flipped classroom or haven’t had the most exposure may just see a tremendous amount of work ahead of them. In reality, flipped learning only has a small amount to do with the videos.…

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FlipCon Adelaide 2016 - Pre-drinks

Settling in for a rad time - Pre-drinks #FlipConADL #Gamification #Flippedlearning

My first visit to Adelaide and so far it has been phenomenal. The weather has really been amazing and the City of Churches is beautiful – although it’s a struggle to get a feed after 9:30 at night. We’ve been lucky to score a room right on the beach. How good? I’m in Adelaide for FlipCon Australia 2016. I can’t wait for it to get underway. I’m here with my colleague and buddy Bill (@BillTink)…

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Gamification 1st Edition: How we gamified our classroom

D&D in the classroom - Gamification: How we gamified our class #flippedclassroom #gamification

Acknowledgements When we started we didn’t have much of a roadmap and we relied a lot on journal articles, blog posts and our experiences as gamers,we eventually started to really need some more guidance. For this guidance, we leant very heavily on the work of Lee Sheldon (@lee_wpi) and a little later on the work of Matthew Farber (@MatthewFarber). Their books have been absolute touchstones for…

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Ubiquitous Learning

I'm taking elearning ecologies on @coursera. Former #DigitalScholar of @redasadki wanting to learn more

The #DigitalScholar course of Reda Sadki introduced me to Bill Copes and Mary Kalantzis. The Copes & Kalantzis MOOC on Coursera elearning Ecologies was running then at the same time but I had my hands full with #DigitalScholar so I wasn’t able to concentrate on the MOOC. So I’m trying this MOOC now.

The assignment for the first week is –

Make an update of 300 words or more introducing a…

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