Thursday, October 18, 2012

Day 30 - Christopher Roofe NRMS Grade 7 Social Studies

Christopher Roofe
NRMS
Grade 7
Social Studies

Today I learned the first steps to flip my classroom.  This is an opportunity for teachers to use available technology in the classroom to develop lessons, but also for students to expand their learning beyond the classroom and cover materials at home.  Videos, blogs, and social media can all be used to drastically change the ideas of schoolwork and homework.  Through the flipped classroom, teachers have an opportunity to create videos of lessons to reach students beyond the classroom that might be struggling or just curious to go further with some material.  Thanks to one of the videos presented today, I already learned that I have been tying my shoes wrong for about thirty years.  It took about four minutes to present the video that another person had created to show an alternative method of thinking about a standard topic that so many people assume they do well.

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