Flipped Learning
What is Flipped Learning?We were asked, prior to doing the readings, to describe what we think Flipped Learning is. Below is my initial definition.
Flipped Learning is when you provide students with some aspect of the learning (background knowledge) prior to class (in a video or interactive format) so that when they get to class they can participate more actively in the activities, discussions, and more assistance can be given by the teacher for the difficult areas/topics. |
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My Who's Who List!We were asked to find influential people and hashtags to follow. The following list are my new follows!
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YouTube Playlists!Choosing a curriculum area we were asked to create a YouTube playlist that could be shared publicly. My playlist covers the Alberta curriculum for the Rocks and Minerals unit in grade 3. This is the last grade I taught when I was in the classroom and I will be sharing this with grade 3 teachers in my district. |
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Flip #1
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Google Drive Basics FunUsing a YouTube video about Google Drive basics and Google Forms I created a no-fail activity that helps users learn about getting started with Google Drive.
It was actually pretty fun, and not as time consuming as I thought it would be. Definitely labour up front, but you'd have the resource moving forward and the Google Form quiz would be easy to tweak as needed. |
Flip #2
Third Party Policy ProcedureOur school district recently put a new policy into place. It has created a lot of questions and confusion. It was decided that a video to explain it should be created to allow all staff to receive the same information. This assignment was the perfect opportunity to create and build in the augmented component for this video. |
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Flipped Learning Reflection
Flipped Learning can be really helpful when working with school staff as they don't always need the same skills at the same time. As in the case of my Flip #2 assignment, they can also be a great way to disseminate the same information to all staff in multiple locations.
A district library of links to helpful videos could be really useful in supporting the tools they are wanting to use, in the moment. They do not necessarily have access to the human help they need, when they need it, therefore making the quick connections vital to ease of use and ability. By having flipped learning opportunities they can use them as needed, more so like tutorials. This would be empowering for the staff, to gain the knowledge and skills they need. Staff could also use the same links (videos) with students, where appropriate, to empower the students to move forward with skill development when needed.
My concern to creating a bunch of my own how-to videos would be keeping up with the changes to the tools/software. Utilizing such tools as Google Apps Help by Synergyse Training is a more efficient tool to have staff and students access when needed. In most cases a district link page would be keeping up links to videos done by others and updating the links page for our staff. A short video in the district database that shows them what Synergyse is and how to access it would be what is needed on the district link page. I would, likely, only create videos when they apply to our division only, as per the Flip #2 project. This is not something that could be found anywhere else and is very specific.
Can't wait to build the page on my Ed Tech district website!
A district library of links to helpful videos could be really useful in supporting the tools they are wanting to use, in the moment. They do not necessarily have access to the human help they need, when they need it, therefore making the quick connections vital to ease of use and ability. By having flipped learning opportunities they can use them as needed, more so like tutorials. This would be empowering for the staff, to gain the knowledge and skills they need. Staff could also use the same links (videos) with students, where appropriate, to empower the students to move forward with skill development when needed.
My concern to creating a bunch of my own how-to videos would be keeping up with the changes to the tools/software. Utilizing such tools as Google Apps Help by Synergyse Training is a more efficient tool to have staff and students access when needed. In most cases a district link page would be keeping up links to videos done by others and updating the links page for our staff. A short video in the district database that shows them what Synergyse is and how to access it would be what is needed on the district link page. I would, likely, only create videos when they apply to our division only, as per the Flip #2 project. This is not something that could be found anywhere else and is very specific.
Can't wait to build the page on my Ed Tech district website!