Hybrid Teaching: Blending and Flipping to Shake Things Up

1. Hybrid Teaching: Blending and Flipping to Shake Things Up Brandie Freeman Woodland High School

2. Let’s Pretend… You are a Bartow County Schools student, and I am your teacher. Before oursession, I asked you to watch this video , fill in the following Venn diagram, and bring it with you. 1. 2. 3.

3. What is Blended Learning? • Broad term that combines traditional in-class instruction with an online component • Born from • increased access to technology • teachers being forced to do less with more • need for asynchronous instruction

4. What Does This Look Like? (Tucker, 2012)

5. Why? (Tucker, 2012)

6. “The 21st century is customizable. In ten years, the teacher who hasn’t yet figured out how to use technology to personalize learning will be the teacher out of a job. Differentiation won’t make you ‘distinguished’; it’ll just be a natural part of your work.” (Blake-Plock, 2011)

7. Who Benefits?

8. “I feel more empowered. I realize that technology cannot replace me, but it can make me more effective, decrease my grading load, and teach my students critical 21st century skills they will use long after they have left my class.” (Tucker, 2012)

9. What are Some Blending Options? Online Discussions *Darkest box indicates online work

10. What are Some Blending Options? Scientific Lab Groups *Darkest box indicates online work

11. What are Some Blending Options? Collaborative Group Work *Darkest box indicates online work

12. What are Some Blending Options? Notes and Assignments Posted Online (Flipping) *Darkest boxes indicates online work

13. What is Flipped Teaching?

14. Why Flip Your Teaching? • Flipped teaching leverages technology to appropriately pair the learning activity with the learning environment. • When concepts are explained online, it is easier for students working independently to move at their own pace. • Allows the teacher to be present when students are being asked to demonstrate higher-order thinking skills such as analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating

15. Is Flipping Just Taping My Lectures? • Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. The lecture or information you want to give is probably already available through YouTube, Khan Academy, Hippocampus, etc. No need to tape yourself (but you can if you prefer). • Presenting the material in the context of a discussion question allows for accountability and will help them to remember more. • Break up lectures into 5-10 minute chunks with assigned tasks while watching

16. What Will I Use?

17. What Does This Look Like in Practice? English Language Arts

18. (Tucker, 2012)

19. Sites You May Find Useful • www.storybird.com/teachers • Create art-inspired stories to share, read or print • Free for up to 75 students with unlimited storybirds English Language Arts

21. Sites You May Find Useful • www.gliffy.com • Students can create high-quality flowcharts and diagrams in their web browser • 5 free per user English Language Arts

23. What Does This Look Like in Practice? History Social Studies

24. (Tucker, 2012)

25. Sites You May Find Useful • www.historywiz.com • Collection of exhibits, historical materials and primary sources • Free History Social Studies

27. Sites You May Find Useful • http://en.linoit.com/ • Online sticky note board and canvas students could use in many ways like creating a “Dreamboard” http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Dream-Board for a historical figure • Free History Social Studies

29. What Does This Look Like in Practice? Science

30. (Tucker, 2012)

31. Sites You May Find Useful • http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm • Online tutorial for food webs and chains and platform for creating a detailed food web • Free Science

33. Sites You May Find Useful • www.hippocampus.org • Content videos, reading materials, simulations and virtual labs sorted by subject including PhET and Khan Academy materials (math and social studies also available) • Free Science

35. What Does This Look Like in Practice? Math

36. (Tucker, 2012)

37. Sites You May Find Useful • www.educreations.com • Create and share video lessons with an interactive whiteboard iPad app that records what you say and write. • Free Math

39. Sites You May Find Useful • http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/index.html • Use a comic strip to represent a word problem based on a real-life scenario with each square focused on one step of the problem. • Free Math

40. Sites You May Find Useful • http://en.linoit.com/ • Online sticky note board and canvas students could use in many ways like creating a “Dreamboard” http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Dream-Board for a historical figure • Free Math

41. Want More or Still Not Convinced? • Check out Katie Gimbar’s 16 Q & A sessions here to address issues such as: • What if students don’t do their homework? • What if students don’t have internet access? • What does your classroom look like now?

43. References Blake-Plock, S. (2011). 21 things that will become obsolete in education by 2020. Retrieved from http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/03/21-things-that-will-be-obsolete-by-2020/ Tucker, C.R. (2012) Blended Learning in Grades 4-12. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin.