1. ESS Conference Monday, June 6, 2011
The Flipped Classroom
ESS Conference
Monday, June 6, 2011
Good morning. My name is Deb Wolf and most years I am a chemistry teacher at Roosevelt High School. But this year, I am the coordinator of a technology grant for 35 middle/high school math and science teachers.

2. But first, bear with me for a moment while I set up a scenario for you.
It’s my job to teach you to ride a bike:
I give you a lecture over bicycling, demonstrate how to ride and give you 2 weeks to learn how to ride the bike.
At the end of the two weeks, I come back and I give you a test on your biking skills. (You’re doing pretty well, but you’re having a little trouble with left turns and stopping.)

3. Snapshot
“TEST”
Alrighty now that we’ve all learned how to ride a bike, we’re moving on to…

4. Unicycles.
Now, as ridiculous as that sounds…isn’t that what we do?

5. Traditional Classroom
Lecture
Homework (Practice)
(Snapshot) Exam
We lecture, give students an opportunity to practice, give another lecture, give some practice, another lecture and practice and then give the students a “snapshot” exam. And no matter what kind of scores students get: 80, 85%, 90%, or even 95%...the class moves on to the next topic. And even that 95% student, what was the 5% that they didn’t know. Is that information essential to understand what is coming next?
I think that by doing this, students wind up, over time, with a sort of “Swiss Cheese” understanding of content. Even some very good students early on, if the holes in their understanding are of important enough content, begin to struggle.
“I understood how to add and subtract positive numbers, but I’m a little rough on what to do with negative numbers, especially if we’re subtracting.”

6. “The Factory Model of Education does not work.”
-Steve Hargadon
TIE Conference April 2011

7. Frustrations with Traditional Model
Swiss Cheese Understanding
Students “working” the system
Other students unchallenged
Absenses
No TIME!!!!
to facilitate rich creative learning

8. What’s the best use of class time?
A question asked by these teachers is “what is the best use of class time?” Again, I want you to think about a traditional math class. The teachers spends a majority of the period explaining the new material for the day and then sends the students with their homework of “practicing” that material. However, what happens when the student gets home? How do they handle it when they get stuck on the homework? They MAY wrestle with it, they may ask their parents, they may call a friend, they may wait until the next day and stop in before school to ask their teacher. They MAY do these things if they have good study habits. But mostly likely, they will just be “stuck.” They need the practice, but cannot practice. What if…instead…class time was used for the practice and the homework were the dispensing of information?

9. The Flipped Classroom
Students watch recorded lesson (video podcast) as “homework”
Class: practice, labs, collaboration, to create, to communicate.
If Mastery: Students must master at 80% before moving on. (Sort of self paced)
Let’s start with the extreme: The chemistry teachers at RHS and WHS, a physics teachers at LHS, an algebra teacher at RHS and the AP environmental science teacher at LHS have all flipped their classes. Homework becomes watching lecture.

10. What do you need?
Software
Microphone
A way to “write”
TIME!!!!!!

11. Software Good Better Best JING (free download)
Screencast-o-matic (free)
Better
SmartRecorder on Smartboards
Best
Camtasia

12. Good

13. Smart Recorder - Better
If you have a Smartboard…

14. Camtasia Studio - Best http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
Version 7.0
$$$$

15. Microphone
Good (< $20.00)
Best (< $150.00)

16. Wireless Writing Tablet Tablet PC
Writing Device
Smartboard
Wired Writing Tablet
Wireless Writing Tablet
Tablet PC

17. Wacom Bamboo Tablet

18. Wireless Tablet

19. Propagation (Where do I put my video?)
Building/District Server
Blog
Youtube.com
State media server

20. TIME
Prep!

21. Network and Support Sal Khan – The Khan Academy
TED Talk March 2011 (Fantastic!!!!!)
The Flipped Classroom NING

22. Questions & Comments

23. What is Mastery Learning
Work at own pace (sort of)
Must achieve 80% to move on to next concept.
Frequent evaluations

24. Benefits Learning - Understanding Relationships Cheating doesn’t pay!
Differentiation

25. Students take responsibility for their own learning.
The VERY BEST Thing!
Students take responsibility for their own learning.
Freedom
Control
-Steve Hargadon (TIE 2011)

26. How does this work? Packet Packet is “order of worship”
Frequent Evaluations
80% Mastery

27. Typical Day
Demonstrations
Practice
Quizzes
Tests
Lab

28. Lecture
This student got sick for an extended period. He did not miss a single lecture. He had all the resources he needed to get caught up.

29. Demonstrations
We perform demonstrations for 3 or 4 students, not for a whole class.

30. Labs 2 or 3 students complete a lab together.
Ideally, once they have finished, they meet with one of us to discuss their understandings.

31. Practice, Quizzes & Tests
Ideally, practice is for development of understanding. They do “enough” practice to master.
There’s no reason to copy, because if you don’t understand, you don’t move on.

32. A Typical Day

33. Questions & Comments

34. Hurdles
Access
Time
Chaos
Technology

35. Resolving Issues Student Access to Vodcasts Server Spaces
Streaming Video (bandwidth)

36. Contact Information
Deb Wolf