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The Student-Centered Classroom - Liberate Learners To Flip Their Own Lessons

The Student-Centered Classroom - Liberate Learners To Flip Their Own Lessons | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"The expanded availability of easy tech tools has empowered educators to rethink homework and daily instruction. Flipping the classroom with teacher-made videos allows students to self-direct their at-home learning. Many of these clips, however, still involve a one-day delivery of information, from teacher to student. Another approach is to allow children to make their own educational videos. They can enlighten their classmates with their creations, and they can teach themselves the material and the skills during the process of production."

Beth Dichter's insight:

Have you considered having students use the Adobe Voice app (iPad) to create materials that others may use to review work? This post shares how one school has done this with 8th grade students and provides 3 videos embedded in the post as well as a link to a page where you can see more student work.

The post also discussed "four key proficiencies" that students may demonstrate as they create an Adobe Voice video:

* Symbolic and visual metaphor - in choosing images and/or icons  and their definitions of words students are demonstrating understanding of figurative meaning.

* Narrative - students narrate their story and provide images that seamlessly move from one point to another within the story.

* Text- students select key text, highlighting vocabulary.

* Design - students learn critical elements necessary to convey content. Elements may include, music, images, voice, color, transitions, layout and more.

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Flipping The Flipped Classroom - Motion Infographics For STEM Learning

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"At its simplest, a flipped format can involve a teacher inviting students to view YouTube videos at home as a preview to the day's topic. At its most rigorous, a flipped curriculum involves teachers writing, producing, directing, editing, and posting their own original lessons -- complete with custom narrations and visualizations -- via third-party applications."

Beth Dichter's insight:

Finding great videos that you may use in your classroom takes time. This post provides four videos with a STEM focus that you may choose to use in your classroom. These are often referred to as motion graphics. The ones within this post include:

The Solar System, Our Home in Space is "an infographic trip through the wonders of the solar system" that allows students to explore the inner and outer planets;

* Measuring the Universe, which combines math and scale and helps students begin to comprehend how vast the universe is;

* For the Love of Mountains, where you will learn more about some of the "extremes" of the earth's mountains;

* Forest (the English version), a "study in ecology and the environment.

I find videos are a great hook for students, providing opportunities for them to quickly engage with the subject and begin to ask questions as they want to learn additional information. These four videos would work with a wide range of ages and are well worth checking out.

Ness Crouch's curator insight, March 29, 2014 5:13 PM

These motion infographics look interesting. I wonder if I can find content for my class?

Jeongbae Kong Enanum's curator insight, August 16, 2014 9:48 AM

Won Ho :<생각이 깊은 교수님의 글이라서 연구해봐야겠다.>

Why should the video watching previous to in-class? The core is quality video access and intensive in-class interaction. The lecture can't complete with these superb ones.

꼭 뒤집어야만 하는가? 내게 플립러닝의 핵심은 수준 높은 비디오와 강력한 상호작용이다. 순서와 방식은 여러 가지가 가능하다. 선생님이 개념 설명 행위는 여기 비디오를 보면 조만간 사라질 게 당연해 보인다.

 

María Dolores Díaz Noguera's curator insight, February 4, 2016 7:39 AM

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Engaging Tools To Teach Social Media

Engaging Tools To Teach Social Media | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"We could not resist using the creativity of Avalaunch Media products with our students. The company has truly designed some fun graphics to help explain social media not just to kids, but also to other educators and parents who are not quite as up to date."

Beth Dichter's insight:

How do we teach students about social media when many believe they know they need to know because they use social media. This post provides 3 resources to help you out.

One of them is the interactive infographic on the History of Social Media. This infographic allows you to explore social media over three time periods, beginning with BC - 1800s. Did you know that the first postal service was in 550 BC?

The other two resources are Social Meowdia Explained and Social MEDogIA explained. Both provide a humorous look at social media that will engage students.

This blog post also provides some great ideas on how to incorporate these resources into future lesson.

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Create Your Own Motion Graphics - Adobe's App For Making Explainer Videos Is Child's Play

Create Your Own Motion Graphics - Adobe's App For Making Explainer Videos Is Child's Play | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

I"Adobe Voice may be the app we've been waiting for. This effortless video creator may finally fulfill the promise of tablet computing. With a simple, intuitive interface and clean, effective visuals, the Adobe Voice app allows anyone to design animated videos in minutes. It finally turns the iPad into a seamless device for content creation, not just content display or interaction."

Beth Dichter's insight:

Are you interested in having your students create motion graphics (also called video graphics)? Do you have access to iPads? If so, go over to the Apple Store and download Adobe's new app Adobe Voice, and you may find yourself with an easy tool that will provide you and your students the ability to create create videos.

niftyjock's curator insight, May 24, 2014 9:49 PM

I'm going to have a go ...

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Cross-Curricular Motion Graphics - Digital Technology To Bridge The Sciences & Humanities

Cross-Curricular Motion Graphics - Digital Technology To Bridge The Sciences & Humanities | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"Modern pedagogy speaks frequently about interdisciplinary learning. A student's ability to make cross-curricular connections is one of the surest signs of understanding. Interactive tablets and project-based learning put a priority on these unions of product and skill, but often the attempts at collaborative exploration remain within comfortable sphere's of academic neighbors.
In other words, it's easy for English and history teachers to work together. They can read historical fiction and poetry, or conduct research into famous cultural movements. Similarly, math and science educators often overlap in their lessons on significant digits and spacial reasoning."


Beth Dichter's insight:

Can you do the same with science and the humanities? This post says yes, and provides three great motion graphics that you may choose to use with your students.
The first motion graphic comes from NBC, and is called Global Warming Heads to the Supreme Court. This video combines civics and environment and is one of a number of videos available through NBC Show Me series.

The second motion graphic that is shared Duelity, explores religion and physics, literally side by side.

The third one is called Humanizing Motion Graphics and explores language and biology.

Would showing this type of video engage your students? Check them out by clicking through to the post.

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Don't Memorize, Internalize - Studying For Final Exams

Don't Memorize, Internalize - Studying For Final Exams | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"Our students are currently taking their final exams. During the past few weeks, we've wondered often about the distinctions between "studying," "reviewing," and "reminding" -- since theoretically, the students have already learned all of this information earlier in the year."

Beth Dichter's insight:

This post explores an interesting issue, should final exams be a "review" or should we think of them as a way to "provide a thematic culmination of the year's "big picture" ideas...(giving) kids a few "ah ha!" moments to realize how much they've learned over the course of their semesters. Exam review should be an exercise in how to internalize information and produce new connections."

There is also a short video embedded in this post, "How to Generate Good Ideas" that provides "five ways to foster understanding." 

Take some time to think about how you view final exams...and what might happen if you shift that perspective a bit.

Amanda's curator insight, July 1, 2013 4:15 PM

This article talks about final exams and the methods we use to srudy for them. Rather then just memorizing what you need to know just to forget it down the road if you use more creative ways to study it will stick with you longer.