The realities of pandemic teaching have made the concept of a flipped classroom and flipped learning more appealing than ever before for many educators. "Flipped learning always asked this one simple question: what's the best use of your face-to-face class time," says Jon Bergmann, a high school science teacher and pioneer of flipped learning. In flipped classrooms, material that would be traditionally introduced during in-class lectures is assigned to students outside of class time often in the form of videos or reading. Class time is reserved for students to actively engage in higher-level concepts and problem solving with the teacher available to help them.
Related Summaries
Screencast-O-Matic is a free screen capture system that allows teachers the opportunity to easily share their device screen with students, both in class and during remote learning. Users can share screenshots and record video of actions being carried out - such as showing a student how to use an app they need to work with on a project, for example. Since storage and publishing are online and video editing is built-in, it is a capable yet easy-to-use option for teachers who need to share a screen video quickly and easily.
Charts, graphs, and diagrams are essential tools students and teachers use to visually present data in an informative, attractive, and engaging manner. Multiple sites are available to students to create charts, graphs, and diagrams for assignments in every subject, especially those that rely heavily on data and statistics, such as science, math, history, or social studies. These sites are also great for creating lessons or keeping track of student progress in the classroom, whether in-person or online.
Grants are very competitive, so thinking about what the judges expect to see before you submit your proposal is critical to success. To start with, read information about the organization itself to get a sense of what is important to them. Check previous grants they've funded to see how close your idea is to other proposals they've liked in the past. And look for any criteria or list of scoring rubrics that they use.
The biggest hurdle teachers face in flipping their classrooms may be their own thinking about class time, writes flipped-education pioneer Jon Bergmann. In this blog post, Bergmann encourages teachers to give control of learning to students. "As you do this, you will find, as I did, how it affects every aspect of your teaching. No longer will you be the person who disseminates knowledge -- instead you will become the learning facilitator of your classroom," he writes.
A panel of educators at this week's International Society for Technology in Education conference, led by flipped classroom pioneers Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann, discussed the different ways to flip a classroom. Some panelists talked about having students view video lectures at home, while others said they use the strategy to provide videos of topics students consistently need help with in class. One thing all the educators had in common, however, was a desire to individualize learning for their students.