Somehow I missed all the hype about the “flipped” or “inverted” or “reversed” or “backwards” classroom over the past year or two. Just saw an excellent post on some Twitter feed or other (can’t remember which) that brought the whole idea to my attention–discussed below. At first I thought it meant inverting the classroom in the sense of the teacher no longer being the main expert, or the content-deliverer, but the students taking a more active role. Ummm…no. It’s more than that.
"If video lectures drive the instruction, it is just a repackaging of a more traditional model of didactic learning. It is not a new paradigm nor pedagogy of learning."
How students are learning is changing, just ask Aaron Sams, a Flipped Learning Pioneer. In Flipped Learning, students watch podcasts of their teacher's lectu...
In the first of a new series of articles focused on classroom design, we take a look at a private high school in Florida that's borrowed ideas from two major universities to create classrooms that support interactive, hands-on learning.
Thinkstock In a traditional classroom, the teacher is the center of attention, the owner of knowledge and information.
In a traditional classroom, the teacher is the center of attention, the owner of knowledge and information. Teachers often ask questions of their students to gauge comprehension, but it’s a passive model that relies on students to absorb information they need to reproduce on tests.
What would happen if the roles were flipped and students asked the questions?
Active learning…. the topic frequently polarizes faculty. Active learning has attracted strong advocates … looking for alternatives to traditional teaching methods, while skeptical faculty regard a...
To make time in class for group activities devoted to critical thinking, we integrated a series of short online lectures into the homework assignments of a large, introductory biology course at a research university. The majority of students viewed the online lectures before coming to class and reported that the online lectures helped them to complete the in-class activity and did not increase the amount of time they devoted to the course. In addition, students who viewed the online lecture performed better on clicker questions designed to test lower-order cognitive skills. The in-class activities then gave the students practice analyzing the information in groups and provided the instructor with feedback about the students' understanding of the material. On the basis of the results of this study, we support creating hybrid course models that allow students to learn the fundamental information outside of class time, thereby creating time during the class period to be dedicated toward the conceptual understanding of the material. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
David Wicks: Educational Technology. Reflections on teaching, learning, and technology. Home · About · Presentations · Sloan-C Emerging Tech Presentation 2009 · Twittering & Education Symposium · Twittering at an ...
We started Understoodit in May 2012, with the goals of making classrooms more interactive and giving students an opportunity to voice their confusion anonymously. Over the summer of 2012, Understoodit.com was tested in over 200 classes, workshops, lectures and presentations. Based on feedback from those early adopters we were able to refine Understoodit by adding more features and keeping it simple to use. During the testing period a further 3000 educators signed-up to use Understoodit.com.
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to load and run.
The complete solution for managing the interactive classroom.
Learning Catalytics is a new platform for managing the interactive classroom. Developed by the Mazur Group at Harvard, it supports the peer instruction method of teaching, and can also be used to get real-time feedback during class. Faculty can engage students with questions about the material—with numerical, algebraic, textual, or graphical responses—and the platform helps group students for follow-up discussions and tracks their responses.
Learning Catalytics is in use in courses at Harvard and several other schools.
YouTube EDU brings learners and educators together in a global video classroom. On YouTube EDU, you have access to a broad set of educational videos that range from academic lectures to inspirational speeches and everything in between.
Come here for quick lessons from top teachers around the world, course lectures from top-class universities or inspiring videos to spark your imagination.
The notion behind this website is to turn learning upside down.
It is the personal blog/website of Jon Bergmann. Jon is a teacher, educational coach, and writer who has had the privilege of helping educators around the world reconsider what education can look like.
He, along with Aaron Sams, are considered two of the pioneers in the Flipped Class Movement. They co-wrote the book on the Flipped Classroom. It will be available from ISTE Press and ASCD in June of 2012. They also have a popular YouTube channel which contains the videos they have used with their students in the flipped classroom. The videos are mostly Chemisty, Astronomy, and Space Science videos.
The new Science Teaching and Student Services building at the University of Minnesota will have 10 Active Learning Classrooms. Active Learning Classrooms allow for students to experience a more interactive and conversational educational environment. With round tables for discussion and high-tech accessories for interactivity, these classrooms will service more than 125 class sections this fall.
More and more I am reading articles like this oneColleges worry about always-plugged-in students. In it they talk about college professors and administrators who have or are considering unplugging student’s access to the internet or banning technology altogether so students will focus. These learning institutions are moving in the wrong direction!
When we blame or ban the technology, we solve our issue temporarily, but we are ignoring the root of the problem.
When it comes to learning, many educators know banning is the easy way out, but there are a number of reasons behind why students are not paying attention. Rather than taking away student rights and the freedom to use the tools they want, we must address the root of the issue that is causing the problem. My advice comes from someone who teaches adults and students in a “no ban zone.” These ideas work for me and they will work for you.
Recent news from Indiana University showed how active learning induced much greater multisensory integration on fMRI compared to test participants who only passively watched. Excerpt:
"The difference in motor cortex activation between old and new associations was greater for the active than the passive group. Further more, functional connectivity between visual and motor cortices was stronger after active learning than passive learning. Active learning also led to greater activation of the fusiform gyrus during subsequent unisensory visual perception...audiovisual integration showed greater multisensory gain after active learning..."
So what that means is that active learning improve visual-motor (sometimes referred to hand-eye) coordination, and further more active learning also improve visual perception and seeing-hearing coordination.
This all is consistent with therapy interventions to improve sensory processing disorders or sensory integration. It's a pity that the AAP had its consensus report pooh-poohing sensory processing therapies this year - but these consensus statement can often go awry when very basic science and close clinical experience are far apart.
Role play simulation is a form of experiential learning that allows you to “cover” the same sort of topics as you would in a lecture course while moving your students from passive to active learners.
For example, I found success in using this model for a course in the domestic politics of foreign countries that I teach. Originally I lectured on political parties, election systems, leadership, major political issues, success and failure in politics in the UK. Now, with the role play model, I invite students to form teams based on political parties: Labor, Conservative and Liberal Democrats. Each team works together to assign the various responsibilities: party leader, campaign manager, fundraiser, speech writer, etc.
Interesting conclusions: that all forms of active learning are found to have a positive effect. Suggestions for Engineering to consider efficacy of a broader range of approaches.
We are pleased to publish part two of an interview with the distinguished researcher and internationally recognized innovator Professor Phillip Long who is interviewed by another distinguished educator and academic, Professor James L. Morrison. The interview provides an engaging perspective on the life of one of the most well-known computer science and engineering schools in the world – MIT. How to teach programming and how to develop programming skills in students are questions which educators still struggle to find the best answers to.
Top Hat Monocle is a web based classroom response system that has revolutionized clickers.
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LectureTools is an interactive, web-based student response, note-taking and inquiry tool that improves student attentiveness and engagement in lecture...
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