Both of these instructional models are new, and not new at the same time. I was talking to some friends of mine about education and we decided that no matter how you dress it up or rename it, there are some teaching practices which are just good teaching practices. "Flipping" your classroom refers to a teaching model where students learn content at home from online vides, which allows class time to be devoted to projects and answering questions. This is beneficial to students because it allows for more individualized instruction which is more meaningful to each student. This leads to students being more engaged and embracing new technology. The "Pre-Training Flip" especially spoke to me in terms of applicability to my classroom because it moves the instructional videos to a schema building role. This works better for my teaching context because few of my students have computers with internet in their homes. I would, however, like to introduce more instructional videos into my class time to serve as front loading resources. The Challenge Based Learning instructional model groups students and presents them with real life challenges to solve. This allows students to be creative and demonstrate their curiosity in a way that actually has real world value. I was excited to hear about this instructional model because I can apply it in a way to my research project. My project involves allowing students to choose their own topics for short research reports. I could easily shift the assignment to allowing students to choose a problem to solve related to the content I am teaching at the time. I think this would increase their engagement to the content because it would give them a tangible reason for learning it.
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Lisa Gottfried
11/27/2017 08:09:15 pm
I think your linking flipped learning with front-loading content with instructional videos hits the nail on the head. If students can watch videos and follow along with a tutorial, then you are freed up to differentiate or work one-on-one with students who need more hand-holding and those who are happy to learn on their own, will just take off and learn! Sometimes, if a student has a question and I can teach them while filming me teaching them, then I can use those videos to help other students who might have the same question later on. I simply have the student hold my phone up while I answer their question and then they can refer back to the video if they forget what I showed them. It doesn't require extra work on my part and it helps students remember. It's almost like a more modern form of note-taking.
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