If you are looking for a blog to support your ideas of a flipped classroom, this may not the site. Flipped lessons are the new rage in changing education, motivating students, and improving student performance. Although I admit that I have a lot to learn when it comes to planning and implementing a true flipped lesson or unit, I can't help but feel that I constantly run into the same roadblocks as the traditional classroom. It is not easy to plan flipped lessons when we may be limited by resources at school and home. Perhaps the promise of potential one to one technologies will lower some of the most obvious obstacles of my flipped lessons. I am still left with teaching conundrums such as planning, collaboration, assessment, and student management. Please continue reading. The next paragraph contains some of the resources our class used to build our background knowledge of Flipped Classrooms. My students were asked to leave their comments below as they discuss their experience with our Flipped Lessons.
In today's world of changing technology, access to the world wide web, and availability of technology resources, schools are considering many different ways of adapting instruction to meet the needs of the students. Schools are under a lot of pressure to increase test scores, improve attendance, provide a safe learning environment while operating under tighter and tighter budgets. Perhaps Flipped classes are the answer. Flipped classes are where instruction is done through web based learning and the students then come together with the teacher leading collaboration while providing remedial instruction and activities where needed. Teachers could possibly reach many more students at the same time and actual minutes in class can diminish since lectures and information transfer occurs on student time.
What do you think? Will a Flipped classroom model work at Merrill? Will it work for you personally?
I think that a flip classroom will not work for Merrill. I think that because some kids will not choose to watch it. Also some kids don't wake up in tome barely to get to school. Kids that take the bus will not be able to watch the program because the bus does not have WiFi.
ReplyDeleteRemember that the flipped lesson can occur during school time, and then the review class can be the next day. I think a true flipped class will have the kids do the video part at home.
DeleteYou are correct about the buses not having WiFi, but don't you think some of those children would decide to do their homework later at night when they get home? I mean, that's what normal kids do when they get home, but sometimes, kids get distracted and leave their homework alone when playing with other friends or listening to music, and maybe to do sports.
DeleteI can see that they will not wake up to watch it but can they still watch the video be for there bedtime? So they can do there homework on time and do not need to do it in the morning?
DeleteChristina, that is true but some kids parents don't allow electronics a half an hour before they go to bed.
DeleteBut Brett, lets say you get home at 4 o'clock. Then lets say that you go to bed at 9 o'clock. you have 4 and a half hours to do a fifteen minute video.
DeletePeople don't do it at home because they want to do something else like play games or go to there friends house.
DeleteWhy would you think it would just not work for Merrill, or would it not work other school also? I think it would work, but I don't want it to. Mainly because it takes the feel of school out of it.
DeleteAnd following up with Damitri's post. Even if the student spend their time on games or hanging out with friends, they don't spend the entire day doing it. They would still have at least 15 mins even maybe about a hour. That is enough to do home work considering doing every class as a flipped classroom which may be around 4 main subjects.
DeleteI agree with Brandon . Not everyone spends their whole entire day hanging out with friends or playing games . But I think i'm on the fence , because the easiest thing you can do is probably watch a video and take notes for your homework .
DeleteAfter reading the Pro's and Con's, I now know that I'm left standing on the fence. Classes and their teachers all think differently, and this can go either way! If watching a 15 minute video suits a classroom by working at a slow pace and building up-ward, and it's okay with the students, then it would be fine for that class at the time. If watching a video on learning is leaning towards the other way, then that single classroom doesn't have to cooperate!
ReplyDeleteI think that this would work with me because it would help me work on a topic and have support on what we are doing instead of the teacher having to teach you the lesson in class then shortening the time that your in the class room.
DeleteBut do you think that it would work here at Merrill? Teachers might have a problem with the idea of having a flipped classroom because making a video might seem stressful or maybe that haven't made one ever. But if the teachers just try and experiment with the students, there might be a positive ending or a negative ending.
DeleteI agree that it kinda be stressful on the teacher but after the first year they wont have to make much videos and they would know how to make them.
DeleteAfter all of the the information that I learned on flipped classrooms I think it would be cool but I wouldn't want tho do it especially sense I have no internet access at my house and what happens if I am absent because of somethings and anybody that doesn't have a computer or internet access misses a lesson and can't go back to watch it?
ReplyDeleteYou hit one of the biggest obstacles of flipped lessons. There is inequity around the district to who has internet at home. Even if schools give devices, they can't work without internet.
DeleteYou're right, you can't have kids going to the computer lab every day because they don't have internet at home, they would miss a lot of class time.
DeleteI agree with timothy kohl because, there not going to just give us a book and the internet will have much more information on it.
DeleteIt is cheap to create DVD's of the flipped classes for students who are without internet. If someone misses class it is easy to give them the content they through a flipped class. Without them, students who missed, miss that content lecture.
DeleteI agree that DVDs are an option, but how many should I make? Some schools, one would be enough to meet the needs. How many would I have to make at Merrill each time?
DeleteI don't think that it will won't work for Merrill. But I like the idea because it lets kids go at different paces it also makes you have to trust the kids to watch the video. But kids might not have a computer or internet connection.
ReplyDeleteBut for the kids that goof off during class the teacher will have to guide them herself and then that wouldn't be a flip classroom anymore.
DeleteI agree with you Mathew. It wouldn't work at merrill i don't think. It's a cool idea, but i just cant see myself being healthy, while having to look at a screen 15 minutes a day. I mean yes, it is a short time, yet the idea of basicly ditching textbooks don't seem right to me. There is just some stuff you can't learn from the internet, and if we get to used to electricity, and say; the electricity on earth were to black out, we would have already forgot most of how to survive with out electricity. A good example of it is the show Revolution. Having to watch so many videos could lead to kids forgeting how to read. Changing them to auditory learners.
DeleteIt will work for me because i like getting one on one experiences with the teacher. I also think it will work because i would be able to slow the video down or replay it if i do not understand something. in a regular classroom, you would be the only person to who gets something out of the teacher repeating something if you did not understand it. All the other kids would be losing valuable school time to study or do the worksheet.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Chris because we could replay the video whenever we want. I am sometimes taking too long to write down my notes and I miss the impotent parts of the video so I would be great with flipped classroom.
DeleteAfter the experiments that we did I don't think that a flipped classroom would work for me. For some kids it might work but with others it wouldn't. It wouldn't work for some kids because they might not have a computer at home or might not have a library card/a way to get to the library. For the kids with special needs it might be hard with no teacher around. In conclusion I think that a flipped classroom will work for some people but not all people.
ReplyDeleteI think a flipped classroom would not work at Merrill. I have three good reasons.
ReplyDelete1. No internet access at home.
2. Malfunctions with the video. Technology is a unreliable source.
3. I think homework is just a review of what you did in class that day. So I feel like you should be taught something then you go home and practice it. Then if you don't understand something in class, the teacher can hands-on help you with it then you will know what to do that night on your homework. Also, what if you have questions during the video? There is no physical person to ask (That is unless you ask you parents),
I do agree with you with all of the reasons. Parents may not know what kids are talking about at school, kids come and they are asked"What'd you do in school today?" "Nothing much." Even know they learned things, the kids are being anti-social.
DeleteI don't think it would for me because for me it was kind of boring to watch a video. It is much more fun to listen to a teacher talk because then if someone has a question some other people might have that same question so when the teacher answers that question the other people that have that question won't be wondering that question any more. when you do flipped classrooms and one person has a question and some other people have the same question the teacher will have repeats of the same question.
ReplyDeleteI think that flipped classrooms might work for Merrill, depending on the types of learning styles we have as a school. Like students who are more comfortable with using their hands while they learn.....might not learn well in a flipped classroom environment. I also think that flipped classrooms may be a possibility if Merrill parents do a survey on having flipped classrooms because they might know their children better!
ReplyDeleteI think it will work because most people will improve there test grade but i also think it will not work because i don't think everyone will do the assignment
ReplyDeleteI agree, because some student don't have access at home. Also most students think it's boring and decides to not do it or because they forget to do it. Other things is that they fast forward the video just so they say that they finish it, but the truth is they haven't watch the video.
Deletei think that it will work for me because you do the home work done at school, and watch the lecher at home.
ReplyDeleteReading your comments, many of you feel that undependable students still will hold up the learning for the rest of the class or the teacher. What do you recall from your reading about Flipped classrooms that reassures us that Flipping a lesson will help minimize this problem. To be honest, as the teacher, I was frustrated with the follow through of a few of the students in our lessons. Because I am new to this, I think there is something we are still missing.
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