Flipped Learning

Being able to reach students with content in the classroom is great, but being able to reach students with content at home or outside school is powerful. Using a flipped learning model can help with this endeavor and help students become lifelong learners. Participants will be introduced to methods and techniques that will help facilitate this method of teaching.

VideoNot.es

VideoNot.es is a great extension tool to assist flipped learning for the classroom. Students can be provided an instructional video by the teacher, and with VideoNot.es they can upload the video via the URL and take notes at any area in the video! The notes they take automatically synchronize with the video and save automatically directly to their Google Drive by creating a folder there. Students can then click on the yellow bars that mark where they took their notes in the video to be able to quickly jump to that point. Check out the Google Slides tutorial below along with the link I shared to a sample video with notes. Like any other form of Google, students can share their notes with others to view to edit allowing for direct collaboration to take place.

Another idea, is for the teacher to use VideoNot.es to embed questions for students to answer related to the video. The teacher could then share out the VideoNote.s with the questions for which they could answer in a Google Form. Could you simply put the video directly in the form? Yes, but at least this way students may be more inclined to actually watch the video since the questions are embedded there.

Sample Video

Corresponding Sample Form

Click the image below to open and access the VideoNot.es Sample.

Note: You will have to add the extension to be able to "Open the Sample in VideoNot.es."

CIF Connection:

• Effective Questioning: Questioning challenges students and teachers to use good questions as a way to Open conversations and further intellectual inquiry. Effective Questioning (by the teacher and by students) deepens classroom conversations and the level of discourse students apply to their work. Teachers use this strategy to create opportunities for students to investigate and analyze their thinking, as well as the thinking of their peers and the authors they read in each of their classes. The mark of a highly engaged classroom is when all students are asking thoughtful questions on their own initiative.
• Writing To Learn: Through Writing to Learn, students can develop their ideas, their critical thinking Abilities, and their writing skills. Writing to Learn enables students to experiment every day with written language and to increase their fluency and mastery of written conventions. By taking time to write in low-stakes exercises, students actively engage in thinking about a concept. Writing to Learn increases equity within the classroom since students have time to try out their ideas in non-evaluative activities before they have to present them to a group or as individuals. Writing to Learn can also be used as formative assessment and as a way to scaffold mid-and high-stakes writing assignments and tests.
• Scaffolding: Scaffolding helps students to connect prior knowledge and experience with new information and ideas. Teachers use information from assessments of prior knowledge to plan a careful sequence of activities that continually links that knowledge and understanding to new knowledge and skill attainment. Teachers challenge students, step by step, with increasingly more difficult tasks and concepts to ensure they are continuously learning.