The Flipped Classroom

Presenter: Mark DeLucia

North Kingstown High School

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http://bit.ly/flippingnk

Today’s Topics:

• Pedagogy
• Best Practices
• Creating Screencasts or Videos
• Essential Apps and Resources

The Big Question

What do I want to do in my classroom, and is there a technology that can help?

Blended Learning models

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Examples of Blended Models in practice

https://www.blendedlearning.org/models/

Pedagogy

• What it is
• A model of instruction in which students watch recorded lectures at home, and complete the assignments in-class with the support of the teacher, allowing for a more individualized, face-to-face approach.

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• What it isn’t
• A way of replacing the teacher or content delivery. The videos are only one tool in the teacher’s toolbox for delivering content.

Here’s a handy template for planning a lesson

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l5hNakSEYB8R1uqgX2Gms6xhCjKiaFA7l3xWzMtIFOo/edit

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Creates a one-on-one delivery of the content, vs one-on-thirty.
• Allows for absent students to watch the lecture and remain up-to-date.
• Allows students to re-watch the lecture to ensure understanding.
• Without having to lecture during class time, it allows the teacher more time to work one-on-one with students.

Pros & Cons

• Parents are able to access content, enabling them to help their children.
• It promotes student-centered learning and collaboration.
• Students can follow the lecture at their own pace.
• Sub Plans!

Pros & Cons

Cons

• The “Digital Divide”
• Front-end work!

Best Practices

Do:

• Start slowly
• Use existing videos created by other teachers, Khan Academy or TED talks to get a feel for the methodology before venturing to create your own videos.
• Once comfortable enough to create your own videos, create a YouTube account and invite students to subscribe to your channel. They will receive notification when new videos are posted. Alternatively, you can also post videos to Google Classroom.

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Best Practices

Do:

• Keep videos to 1 minute per grade level. Ex.- 4th grade = 4 min; 10th grade = 10 min.
• Hold students accountable for watching the videos
• This can be done in any number of ways:
• Having students post questions/comments related to the video.
• Checking student notes
• Use EdPuzzle to insert questions / quizzes into the video
• EdPuzzle will even allow you to share resources within your school!
• “Quickie” Quizzes to begin class and check for understanding

Best Practices

Don’t:

• Re-teach the content presented in the video
• This will only make students who actually did the work feel as though they wasted their time.
• Use the videos as the only tool
• Have an accompanying blog or other space for students to post comments / questions.
• Post articles for “further reading” or as optional enrichment for more advanced students. YouTube Video Manager will allow you to add links at the end of the videos.

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What if some students don’t watch the video?

• Have a station or area of the room for students to watch videos while others participate in activities.
• Have students participate in activities with their group. Students who watched the video will help with understanding and have those students watch the video that night.
• If this is an ongoing problem, adapt and rather than “flipping” the classroom, employ a different blended learning model- likely the station rotation.

Class time

What does class time look like in a “flipped” model?

• Now that the lectures are at home, class time can focus on reinforcement work that was traditionally reserved as “homework”, except with the teacher there as a support.
• Activities should encourage collaboration and student-centered learning, with the teacher there to guide and facilitate.

A Typical class

• Students are assigned a video or other anchor task for homework.
• Students come into class and take brief quiz on Google Forms to demonstrate understanding. I allow them to use notes taken from video.
• Google Forms set to autograde instantly tells me the low-scoring questions and/or students, informing my teaching.

A Typical Class

• Students are given X amount of time at each station and rotate through. Timers are helpful. (Try using “OK, Google”)
• Ideally, each activity is a different approach to learning the content.
• What approach is taken is up to the teacher
• Activities targeted toward learning styles?
• Activities targeted toward applying newly learned concept in different areas?
• Group students according to their level of understanding of the material and work with the group that had difficulty while the other groups collaborate on other activities.
• Activities encourage collaboration while freeing the teacher to assist and facilitate.

Student Feedback

-Felt more comfortable talking in smaller groups

- Like being able to get up and move around - sit a lot during the day

- Stations needs to be strategically placed - maybe talking outside the classroom

- Liked the independence

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How to Combat the “digital divide”

• Allow students time after school to watch videos.
• Institute an after-school program in the lab.
• Rather than have students watch from home, employ the “Station Rotation” model.

Creating Screen Casts / Videos

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• Screencastify
• EdPuzzle
• Flipgrid
• Camtasia ($$$$)
• Explain Everything ($)
• Jing
• Educreations
• Screen Cast-o-matic

Essential Apps and Resources

EdPuzzle Read&Write

YouTube Google Keep

Kami

GAFE

Share to Classroom

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https://www.blendedlearning.org/models/

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Your Turn

• Try creating a lesson that you’ll be able to use in class
• Go to EdPuzzle or YouTube and search for a video that you would assign your students, remembering the rules we discussed.
• Create questions that will check for understanding and hold students accountable for learning the material.
• These can be embedded in the video via EdPuzzle or YouTube editor, or a Google Form you share with them.
• Create 4 relevant activities for centers / stations that students can rotate through when they come into class the following day. Activities should incorporate the knowledge in the video.

Questions & Contact info

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mark_delucia@nksd.net

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