PLEASE NOTE...THIS WEBSITE STOPPED BEING REGULARLY MAINTAINED IN 2018

FLIPPED CLASSROOM

Why do we, in the status quo, replicate in person in our classrooms what is easily available elsewhere, the content delivery/skill modeling, and then have kids apply their learning to difficult problems at home, without us there to help? 
- Reverse Instruction: Dan Pink and Karl’s “Fisch Flip”

---

What is it?

The Flipped Classroom is a form of blended learning in which students learn content online by watching video lectures, usually at home, and homework is done in class with teachers and students discussing and solving questions. Teacher interaction with students is more personalized - guidance instead of lecturing. This is also known as backwards classroom, inverted classroom, reverse teaching, and the Thayer Method.

SOURCE

Find more videos like this at Learning4Mastery.

---

Global Digital Citizen Foundation has a great page on recommendations for flipping your classroom.
Global Digital Citizen has also posted a video blog of a successful Flipped Learning Journey.

---

Tips for the 'Flip'

John Sowash has blogged about this and come up with very useful tips on how to effectively use this approach.

• Make sure that you clearly and carefully explain the purpose of reverse instruction to students. This is a radical idea for students as well as teachers. I did this in a class "commercial" which I show at the beginning of the year
• Hold students accountable to the lectures. An idea is including a secret word or number somewhere in the lecture and asking students to write it down in class the following day. They only way to find out what the number/word is, is to watch/listen to the lecture
• Beware of technical problems. YouTube is a good way to share videos, but my school blocks YouTube. 
• If students don't have internet access at home (this is becoming less and less of a problem), you will need to pre-load your lectures onto an iPod, print out your slides, or burn them to a CD. 
• Create a portal for students to go to watch your lectures, download lectures notes, and converse with one another. 
• Use Google Docs! If you use Google Docs to share all of your presentations and handouts, when you make a change, all of the public copies are automatically updated throughout the web. What a time saver!
• Now that you've freed up class time, you need to use it productively. This can be a challenge. 

IMAGE SOURCE

IMAGE SOURCE

IMAGE SOURCE

Chris Waterworth also has some simple yet practical tips as does the team at GDC.

---

Tools for Flipping

Blaine Morrow has some suggestions on tools you might use to flip your classroom. Some of these include...

• lecture capture utility
• Google Hangouts
• YouTube
• Facebook
• TED Ed
• Khan Academy
• Screencast-o-matic
• Edmodo
• Schoology
• Spreaker
• Podomatic
• Audacity
• Podbean
• ShowMe
• ScreenChomp
• ScreenCast Video Recorder
  

iPad Specific

VERSO

---

Educreations

EXPLAIN EVERYTHIGN

---

OR (my suggestion)....
QuickTime

Simply use QuickTime, which is free and already installed on your Apple computer.
And if you need to doodle, you can use PixiClip.

---

Google Apps to Flip

IMAGE SOURCE

Example

"If I was an English teacher (from the quality of my writing, you can guess I’m not), I would video my teaching of writing techniques, themes, composition and writing narrative using examples etc. The students would then start writing and publishing online as quickly as possible. They receive informed feedback from their fellow students comparing elements with the examples in my videos. I could then just monitor the discussion both in the classroom and online. I would then point individual students to specific videos based on either their work or feedback, if I felt they didn’t understand an idea or skill. The students could then develop quality literature, poetry and articles and collate the work together in digital books, blogs or even publish to Amazon. This personalised approach makes writing seem more real and meaningful. Teamwork’s also made much more significant when students are in the driving seat."

SOURCE

Edutopia has some great suggestions on how to make low budget but hight quality videos for your flipped classroom.

Some More...

Some more tools are listed HERE.
For 10 Must-Watch Videos on Flipped Learning, click HERE.
For a blog on the evolution/future of Flipped Classrooms, click HERE.