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He was engaging and inspirational presenter who used many of his own classroom examples to engage and carry his audience through the journey of designing curriculum to meet the needs of his students. During the presentation he also demonstrated how some of the newer software tools could be used to present material in an engaging way.
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In a former life I worked at Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne in their (Information Technology Learning Centre) and during that time I team taught with two other wonderful Information Technology teachers. We were doing team teaching, flipping, differentiation, formative assessment. All the good stuff before it had it's own #hashtag.
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Teaching for 20 years, you notice "good teaching practice" being re-packaged and re-branded again and again.
Flipping the classroom is more than just sending kids home with a video to watch. It is intentionally seeing the "out of class" time as an opportunity to continue learning and comprehension of what is happening in the classroom. A classroom without walls.
But what if your sports commitments are five nights a week or what if you have to go home to take care of your younger siblings? In an ideal world, students can go home and study or continue their learning. But often we don't know what their home life is like. As teachers we don't understand that perhaps the only time they have to engage in structured learning is when they are at school.
Flipped learning can work well for some units of work but not necessarily others. And in that case, isn't it just good teaching practice to integrate opportunities for students to continue to develop their thinking outside your classroom?
Some links to get you thinking ...
- Andrew Douche Blog
https://andrewdouch.wordpress.com/ - Podcast of Andrew talking about Flipped Learning:
http://teacher.acer.edu.au/article/teaching-methods-episode-2-flipped-learning-with-andrew-douch - Hashtag Feed on Twitter
https://twitter.com/hashtag/flipclass
https://twitter.com/hashtag/flippedlearning - Diigo articles that have been annotated about Flipped Classroom:
https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation/content/tag/flipclass - Research on the Flipped classroom:
http://www.flippedlearning.org/research
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