In today's class we logged onto a site called Sophia and learned about flipped learning in the classroom. Flipped learning is a form of teaching in which students learn new content online by watching video lectures, usually at home, and what used to be homework is now done in class with teacher helping.
Some common criticisms that were discussed in class were:
- Kids do not want to sit at home watching boring video lectures on the web after being in school all day.
- Some kids do not have internet access at home.
- How do I even know if kids are watching the videos? If they don't watch videos, don't I just end up reteaching the material in class anyway?
For next class we will be constructing our own flipped video and a sample flipped classroom on Sophia.
Some thoughts...
ReplyDelete1. Kids have to do homework at night. Videos are only a few minutes long and don't take long to watch.
2. Don't use a boring video. Be creative and make it engaging.
3. Kids who don't have Internet can go to the public library to access the Internet. That's what they do when they have to do Internet research. Or you might provide time before or after school for those students to come in and do their HW.
4. You know the kids have watched the videos from the responses you get from the WSQ they complete after watching. Remember that that information is used by the teacher as a jumping off point the next day.
5. What do you do with kids who don't do their homework? If someone doesn't watch the video for homework you can, provide an area for them to watch it before class, take points off their HW grade, give them an alternate assignment or worksheet to do instead of what the class is doing.