Flipping the Classroom

with GAFE

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Google Apps For Education

What is GAFE?!

Docs: Works just like Word. No USBs, no email attachments, no dropbox…All of your documents anywhere you want, anytime you want.Great for collaboration!

Forms: Create a survey or quiz online.Collects the responses and presents them in a

spreadsheet.Kids cheered when we took quizzes this way!

Drive: Your own storage system in the cloud. Can access anywhere, anytime, from any device.

Google Apps (to name a few):

Flipping the classroom inverts the way we teach.

Students receive traditional “lecture” style instruction for homework, and students get more hands-on time for help,

practice, enrichment, and lab experimentation in the classroom.

Students can watch the lecture as many times as they need; they can talk about it with their friends; they have it saved for later….Teachers can spend more time helping students do “traditional” practice and have more time for collaborative activities during the school day.

But what is “Flipping”?

What is Flipping II

1. Students have you right there when they need help applying the concepts

you teach. This helps avoid student frustration and “giving up.”2. It helps align the classroom with Common Core:

Flipping changes the focus from covering concepts to mastering concepts

Flipping allows more time in class for collaborationFlipping helps you differentiate instruction based on who understood

theconcept from the night before.

Flipping generates more time to develop critical and creative thinking.

Flipping lowers opportunities to cheat on homework and “sit unnoticed”

in class.

3. It’s easier than you think!

Benefits of Flipping

A Teacher’s Take on Flipping:

1. Decide which lesson you would like to flip.

2. Create your own video lesson (more on this in a moment) or use someone else’s (more on this too) and embed in a Presentation.

3. Use Forms to embed a video for students to watch and create a survey for students to fill out after watching. Find out before class who understands the material and who needs help.

4. Use Docs to provide written explanations or practice problems that students can use for notes, questions, and review while watching your lectures.

How to Flip with Google Apps

Inspiration from Emily

There are amazing videos already out there. Use them!

I Don’t Have Time to Make my Own Videos!

PBS Math ClubDiscovery Education

http://www.watchknowlearn.org/ Find videos by age

Create a Google form that the parents complete with the student or about the student’s experience with the videos from that week.

http://koolkinders.blogspot.com/2013/02/reflections-on-flipping-kindergarten.html: Kinder teacher reflects on flipping “Should be about doing versus viewing”

https://learnzillion.com Create a free log in and find lots of Common Core video lessons that start in 2nd grade and go through 12th grade!

Flipping in Primary

http://www.watchknowlearn.org/ (videos by grade/subject matter)

http://www.lessonpaths.com/categories/browse/academic (A place to create your video library/playlists for flipping)

http://msmunafo.weebly.com/math-flipped-videos.html (A 4th grade teacher who flipped math. Check out her videos)

http://www.sophia.org/tutorials/an-introduction-to-flipping (5th grade/3rd grade teacher’s guide to flipping)

Flipping in Upper Grades

http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/Reflections-on-the-Flipped-Classroom-50001684/ (High school teacher reflects on flipping)

http://www.lessonpaths.com/categories/tagHome/spanish/language (Spanish videos)

http://www.lessonpaths.com/categories/search/playlist?search=german (German videos including culture)

http://www.flippedhighschool.com/ (This whole school flipped with GAFE!)

Flipping in 7-12

1. Mini-flip: Choose someone else’s video and embed in a Form.

2. Front full flip: Create your own video lesson and present it in a Presentation that you share with your students.

3. Back flip: Flip one lesson per week and attach higher-order

thinking questions, then survey kids after each flipabout how to improve videos.

4. Belly flop: Not trying anything new. Ever.

Flipping Levels:

1. Don’t worry about flipping every lesson. Just try a few!

2. Use others to help: use collaboration days to make a few together. Share with each other on Drive!

3. Get kids involved! Use flipping as a teaching tool: record kids teaching other kids a specific concept and save it in Drive for others’ to view for review.

4. What do I do with all this extra time in the classroom now?! Student projects, class discussions, apply concepts to the real world…

5. Ask us for help anytime!

Alleviating Fears of Flipping

Multiplying Decimals

Example of Flipped Lesson

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