...UW Bothell Learning Technologies Blog Rotating Header Image Research on Flipping Study Habits for Better Understanding Aug 16th, 2013 by UWB LT. In a recent post written in the Computing Education Blog, two studies were presented discussing the benefits of changing, reversing, and/or flipping the classroom model in order to increase student comprehension. In these studies, data was collected on how well students understood concepts when they were tested on the materials before studying and how beneficial hands-on learning and experimentation was before individual studying took place. The first article, written by Daniel Willingham (Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia), talks about how students gain a better understanding in what they are learning when they try to generate the answer on their own first before reading and learning about it in books and other resources. As a result, there is a higher chance that students will retain and better understand concepts when they invest some initial effort in solving the problem. In essence, students benefit more from experimenting and doing rather than just studying. When students are interacting with materials and concepts in the classroom, there is a direct connection present between the student and the subject being taught. When reading from a book or studying individually, students have a more distant relationship with the concepts because the students are invested in reading about the subject and not actually...
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...Illinois Business Educators Association (IBEA) 53nd Annual Fall Conference 2015 Meet Microsoft Windows 10 and Office 2016 This presentation was given by Corinne Hoisington of Central Virginia Community College and was a general overview of the new Microsoft Windows 10 and a very brief mention of Office 2016. Several promotional videos were shown promoting Windows 10 and it was noted that Windows 10 is not an option and the upgrade will be automatic. Ms Hoisington also discussed the fact that when previous versions of Windows were released, there was a slow adoption of the product because of the fee. With Windows 10, the adoption rate is high with one hundred and fifty million current users because of the fact that it is free. The upgrade to Windows 10 is fairly quick and there is no data loss. As mentioned previously, Windows 10 is free for the life of the machine on which it is installed. This was a business decision by Microsoft to get everyone on the same operating system. Microsoft will update Windows 10 and will provide support. This, however, is the last operating system that Microsoft will release. As of January 31, 2016, Microsoft support for any version prior to Windows 10 ceases. The question to still be answered is if printers will interface with Windows 10 and if security patches will function. Microsoft Office will also no longer support Internet Explorer. As a side note, an interesting fact discussed was since the number nine is an unlucky number...
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...you are doing are getting a degree to better yourself. Right now, I am a freshman in college and working part time. Online classes are helping me because when I am getting ready for bed I can crawl into bed, pull out my laptop, and do homework that is due that night or whenever. It gives me the opportunity to keep my job at the hospital and also work on getting a degree for my dream job. In my eyes, online classes are amazing and a true blessing for this world. I know there is a big difference from sitting behind a computer screen and being in a lecture sitting in front of an instructor, but, I believe that the quality is just the same. One major topic going around right now is, is online classes take over and replaces the traditional classroom settings, which are interesting because would we really get rid of all the teachers the United States has? Online classes give more people to opportunity to get the degree that they need or want to better themselves and a better way to provide for their family. Not everyone can get up and go to school to sit in lecture halls and some; they just don’t want to go sit in a lecture hall and would want to just do it on their own time. If they need 2 classes and they are at the same time but they need both to get their degree then online is a great way to accomplish both. They can take the hardest class in a...
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...In lesson 2 : Can You Hear Me Now? The first objective we learned was that teaching can be done in different avenues and ways. Teachers do not need to be in the classroom to teach with the advancement of technology we can flip a classroom. We can frontload our students at home with tutorials which our students can access through You Tube, Google classroom, and Remind through their phone. This idea was an AHH moment for me, as a special education teacher one technique we use is frontloading. Flipped classroom is frontloading a student at home so that in classroom the teacher and student can start with dependent work. A flipped classroom helps to fastfoward to independent work, giving the student time with teacher to quickly catch mistakes and help students. The second objective was to have us create a two minute tutorial with Camtasia or Screen Flow. This tutorial was to intoduce an idea or subject. The filming...
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...Raven Jones Professor Lee-Harris Composition II 4 February 2015 “Constant Temptation” Social media has become a constant temptation amongst kids and teens. Whether or not social media should be used as a learning tool in the classroom has become a very controversial topic in the education department. Some administrators and educators have gone as far as banning all social media from being used in the classroom and online, while others have not, and find it very useful. Although there address many views on this topic, teachers and students can benefit from using social media in classrooms. Opposing views claim social media is hindering human interaction. It doesn't help or improve a student's a stability to communicate verbally. However, the benefits outweigh the negatives. Allowing students to interact through social media can work on their ability to work together. It allows them to collaborate in and out out of school. For example, a student that is very shy and doesn't feel very comfortable speaking in front of a whole class may feel more comfortable behind the computer screen. Although social media can be a distraction in the classroom, it is also a distraction from everyday life. Students are on social media just about every hour of the day. Therefore, teachers put themselves at an advantage by using social media. Student's can get help with their homework by posting questions online and getting quick responses. Doing so, allows teachers to get feedback on work...
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...decade of teaching experience and yet, I am still daunted by the responsibility of expanding my students’ knowledge base and preparing them to be productive members of the workforce. Cognitive psychology research informs us that learning is not a passive process of simply transmitting information from the instructor to the student rather an active mechanism where new information is integrated with student’s previous knowledge, prior experience and the context of today’s workplace. The big question is how? Two new pedagogical tools making waves and based on their staying power, not flavor-of-the-month approaches, are, flipped classroom technique and evidence-based teaching. So, armed with knowledge gained from a variety of teaching workshops, I have been flipping the classroom, i.e., getting students to read and reflect on course material outside of the classroom and freeing time in the class for application, synthesis, and analysis from the course, mixed success. The challenge for me is to design class activities that successfully help students with assimilation of new information. This problem is compounded by the fact that not all students are engaging in pre-class activities due to differences in motivation, experience, and ability. For instance, those who are employed have an edge due to their actual experience related to the management course content. So the challenge is how to teach/reinforce material for those who need help and at the same time find ways to keep the momentum...
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...It was just an average Wednesday at Susquehanna Township High School, or so everyone thought. Outside of room 204 there was a small crowd of students gaping wide-eyed. Taylor, a tall blonde freshman, pushed through the crowd of students to get a better look. She then saw it; she saw the bloody handprint on the glass of the door. As a child Taylor had always played detective, so she decided to put those skills to work and skip the rest of her classes to figure out what happened in room 204. Taylor began to enter the classroom which had a fragrance of a mix between red deliciously ripe raspberries and yellow Chiquita bananas. The lights were all off in the room causing Taylor to tremble. She began searching for the light switch. At last, she felt the cold plastic against her warm, shaking fingers and flipped the switch...
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...Setting The occupation of putting together a puzzle takes place at the group tables and group carpet inside the classroom. Within the classroom there are three tables that are surrounded by eight chairs on all sides. The tables are located in the center of the classroom and many occupations take place there. Along with putting together a puzzle, the children make arts and crafts, play with Legos, and eat breakfast and lunch at the group tables. Another location for putting together a puzzle is the group carpet. This space is specifically for large carpet puzzles. Other occupations that take place at the group carpet include building blocks, playing with dolls, and group time. Contextual Factors Environments influence what behaviors are appropriate,...
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...Old School vs Current Learning Old school learning where a student such as myself will sit in a classroom and an instructor talks to the point where if you have insomnia he/she will cure it. With this the student has a book which could have from twenty five pages to five hundred and can be used as a deadly missile if thrown towards another student. Having the instructor on hand to handle questions and review your work while addressing any issues, this helps me a lot as a student because old school, no computers, no eBooks, and actually writing on paper. Going to the library was even part of the curriculum and going through shelves of index cards to find the information for your research paper. No going forward about twenty years, I am back in school and most everything has gone digital. I am enrolled in a technical college and I do have instructors and they present a power point presentation and then we go to the hands on now for me personally this is the best way of learning, they review what we are going to do and then we as a class conduct “Labs” and the instructor comes around and reviews the work we done and if it is not correct, then the instructor goes over where I went wrong and explains it to the class because someone else may have done the lab incorrectly as well and they know where they went wrong. I can go to google and find all the research information to include a research paper someone else did on the same subject. I miss the books the most out of my schooling...
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...Teacher just need to discipline students a lot more often than they do now. I know some students might think that is unfair and taking advantage of power but some of these fights are getting out of hand. If teachers and administrators can show that they aren't messing around the students will act more civilized. A police officer's role in school should just be to protect people and not get involved in unnecessary situations. According to the article “Video of S.C. Deputy Throwing Student to Ground Prompts Inquiry, Outrage” it was saying how the school officer manhandled a 16 year old girl. A direct quote from the article said “Authorities are investigating a classroom incident between a white sheriff's deputy and a black high school student in Columbia, S.C., in which video shows the deputy, a school resource officer, flipping the female student's desk backward and dragging her to the ground.”...
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...Quantitative Article Review Summary While researching the quantitative article, “Professor’s Role in Motivating Students to Attend Class,” the purpose of the study is to get readers to understand how a college teacher motivates students within a class to learn. The researcher used correlational research design, with 156 graduate and undergraduate students. The researcher tried to select adequate samples form the students enrolled. Students in each of the classrooms were randomly placed into one of two groups by either using a random table of numbers or by flipping a coin. However the study employed an approach of survey questionnaire developed by Burgess (1998) was used in this study. A t-test was used to compare the means between each of the items on the motivated to attend and unmotivated to attend surveys to check for significant differences. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to determine whether or not significant interactions between the following factors existed: (a) motivated versus unmotivated survey scores, (b) graduate versus undergraduate students, (c) students’ gender, (d) evaluated teachers’ gender, (e) HRD curriculum versus IS curriculum, (f) required versus elective courses, and (g) students’ working status. If significant differences between mean scores on the surveys existed, small-scale generalizations were made about why students were motivated or not motivated to continue attending college classes because of teacher attributes. After...
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...them. Kids are allowed to bring their own devices to class such as tablets, Ipads, and Mini Laptops and use applications that the teacher may require them to. Clearly, technology is becoming increasingly essential to learning. Students with basic academic skills improve with the use of everyday technology. With the speed of technology solving problems is becoming achievable at a faster pace. A good example of that is finding out about schools closing during bad weather. You can have an email sent to you, or even a text message sent to your mobile device, letting know if you have class. Performing school tasks as in writing research papers, finding out your grades for the semester, and submitting work is so much easier. For example flipping through pages to find a word in the dictionary while looking over it once or twice became easier. Now, you can type it in online and in seconds have more than just the definition they give you opposite words and similar ones, even use it in a sentence so you fully understand it. With the size of technology changing also has made it more portable and easier for children with small hands to grasp it. The way surgery can be performed now compared to years ago, the doctors would have to cut you open to perform a simple procedure such as...
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...attempted to unplug myself from the world of media and see how it affected my everyday life. After trying to disconnect myself from everything that involves media, I realized how much I rely on it to get me through each day. I was never this aware of its presence in today’s society until disconnecting myself. Without media to rely on, I found myself having to readjust my whole normal routine just to get through the day. At the start of the day I found myself stressed, unorganized and uneasy. I use my cell phone as an alarm and by turning it off the night before I found myself waking up every few hours for fear of over sleeping. As I headed to my first class I paid attention to various things that I normally never would before. I am usually flipping through my phone, checking emails and replying to texts, but that morning was different. I walked with a relaxed pace to Dodge Hall with my head up and found myself greeting people I knew. As class began, I was immediately able to focus on the material being presented, rather the usual multitasking I tend to do. However, not feeling the constant buzz from my blackberry in my pocket made me somewhat tense throughout the morning, thinking that I was missing some sort of important information. Normally I check my phone every fifteen minutes or so, even if I’m not texting, or communicating in some way ,just to see if I’ve received anything. Realizing this really opened my eyes as to how media dependent my life is. Once my first and only class...
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...1. How my thinking about teaching GCSE maths re-sits has changed during the course. My thinking about teaching GCSE maths re-sits has changed in that I’m more focused on improving the learning of my students. Simplistically, before it may have been a case of “What do they need to know?” and then relaying what the student needs to know for that particular subject, in a clear and concise manner, which may have been “got” by most students, but then they would have forgot the method shortly afterwards when it came to a formative or a summative assessment. Now I’m more determined to help students learn in a way that is going to be enjoyable to them and help them remember what they need to for the exam. This will involve doing more kinaesthetic and visual activities as a lot of learners learn by doing. Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) The course has introduced me to Hodder Education’s range of books called ‘Making Sense of Maths’ for KS3 and KS4 (http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/makingsenseofmaths). Mr Gough, a maths teacher and one of the authors of the aforementioned book(s) states the following: “My experience of teaching GCSE Foundation Tier is that by the time they get to KS4 they’ve already covered most of the content and they’re having the same content repeated in the same way that they found difficult in the first place so my experience of using this approach is that it seemed very different to them and it reinvigorated their interest in maths and they were...
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...certain long-established or traditional subjects or lessons, when they find no use for it in the future due to the technological advancements of today. “Throughout my own education I saw a rapidly changing world that wasn’t matching up to the textbook-driven, passive learning of facts I was being exposed to in my classrooms. Fast forward to today and the rapid changes I witnessed back in the late 80s and early 90s are nothing compared to what I’ve seen in the last ten years. The fact we can look up anything at anytime on our smartphones is itself a game changer in education.” (“What Will a 21st Century Education Look Like?”, 2012) We are starting to see the gap and relationship between our traditional textbooks and technological advancements. Of course, when the authors of our textbooks first published these books, they probably would have never predicted the convenience technology has given us towards education today. People who created the lessons on our English textbooks on how to search our dictionaries would have never known that we wouldn't need that today, because we have the internet. There are now online dictionaries wherein we don’t have to struggle flipping page between page just...
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