Video and the Flipped Classroom

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Video and the Flipped Classroom
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Definition

• Flipped Learning is a method of teaching in which
  traditional classroom lectures are replaced by
  video tutorials that students view outside of
  class. (i.e. swapping homework for class work)

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Background

• For years teachers have used what is now called
  flipped classroom methods.
• Having students read a chapter at home and
  discuss it the next day in class
• Having students watch a movie or television show
• Have students examine/explore other media outside
  of class
• Blended learning, Interactive learning, ,
  inverted learning, hybrid learning, etc

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What has changed?

• The ease of creating videos on your personal
  computer or handheld device
• The growing access of students to view videos at
  home, libraries, phones
• Need to go beyond the lecture to project and
  inquiry-based methods, differentiated
  instruction, etc

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Blooms Taxonomy
This allows the teacher to help students in class
with the higher level objectives
Homework videos are used to help students achieve
master the bottom objectives
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Khan Academy

• Created in 2004 by former hedge fund analyst
  Salman Khan to assist his cousin in another city
  with her math homework
• Went viral on youtube, quit his job, acquired
  funding from Bill Gates, Google, etc

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Advantages

• Allows students to go through material at their
  own pace (repeating if necessary, skipping if not
  necessary)
• Allows teacher to focus on more in-depth topics
  in class
• Gives teacher ability to target help to those
  students who need it most

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Disadvantages

• Can all students access the material?
• Disadvantaged students, access to videos
• Is the subject/topic appropriate for flipping?
• Mostly mathematics and science content
• Are the students really getting it?
• Are they watching the videos, are they
  understanding it?
• Is it just creating a bad video out of a bad
  lecture?
• Is it worth it?, Time factors
• Are teachers becoming irrelevant?
• What is their role?

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Other flipped resources

• Higher Education Institutions like Harvard,
  Berkeley, Stanford, Yale and M.I.T. are creating
  and posting MOOCs (massive open online courses)
  edX, Coursera, and iTunesU
• YouTube Teachers, TeacherTube, TED Ed,
  hippocampus, etc
• Individual schools, teachers and even students
  create and post their own videos

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Is flipped learning for you?

• You dont have to go all in. You can start
  with just one lesson. You can use an existing
  video as a complement to what you are already
  teaching
• Videos could be non-content, more procedural
• You can create your own video, just a lecture or
  something more?
• How to assess it, does it meet my objectives?

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Next steps

• Is this something that you would be interested in
  learning how to do?
• Conduct an internet search of history videos.
• Begin planning on how to incorporate the video
  into your class.
• Possibly create your own video (plan it, edit it,
  revise it, post it)
• Prepare your class, (expectations, issues of
  access, objectives)

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Tips for making your own videos

• Find out about access early on
• Make sure there isnt some video which already
  does what you want
• Same rules as creating a good lesson (i.e.
  engaging, informative, complete, accurate, etc.)
• Keep it relatively short (20 minutes or less)
• Involve a second person
• Make students take notes, ask questions, engage
  in discussions
• Find means of assessing (mastery-based)

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Hardware requirements

• PC or laptop (PC or Apple)
• Webcam (internal or external)
• Microphone
• or flipcamera/video recording device

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Software requirements

• Access to internet
• Account with educreations, youtube, vimeo, etc
• Jing (free) or other screencast software
  (camtasia, snagit, morae )
• Video editing software
• Place to post video (aforementioned sites or
  school or personal webspace)
• Course management system?

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Other requirements

• Script for your presentation
• Background
• Charts/maps/documents/websites/pictures