What does the flipped classroom look like?
Students watch lectures at home and bring their questions and discussions to the classroom. This creates higher student engagement and more time for debates and simulation within my social studies classroom.
Flipping the classroom creates increased opportunities for higher order thinking.
Flipping the classroom creates increased opportunities for higher order thinking.
What the students are saying about the flipped classroom...
Comments from the most truthful critics out there... 6th graders.
Using a google form I provided the students with four questions. These are some of their responses:
1. What were benefits of having the computers in our social studies classroom?
"It made things easier and more organized, and it made it able to work easier from home."
"It made it easier to work on work that you started in your house."
"It was easier because you can work on things at home and it is more organized"
"Computers made it easier to write essays for projects and we got to use them for interactive
lessons!"
2. What did you like about the video lessons?
"We could replay them as much as we could, to retake notes, or see something we missed"
"We could rewatch them as much as we want."
"That we could listen to it"
"We could watch them as many times as we wanted"
"We did not have to ask 'what did you say” and everyone could go their own pace"
"I liked that everyone could go at their own pace and we could rewatch them to get the information."
"You can pause it whenever you want and go back to different parts of the video"
"You could stop and start them instead of having the teacher repeat things."
3. What would you change about the video lessons?
"I would make them more interactive."
"More pictures"
"Nothing"
"More pictures"
"They should be more interactive"
"Shorter"
"I would make them shorter and more interactive."
4. What would you like to do more of with the computers?
"I would like to be able to use social media more with them."
"More social media cough cough email cough"
"Watch videos"
"CNN student news"
"YouTube!!!!!!!"
"Play more social studies games like mission U.S."
"Be able to take them home and use them when we need."
Using a google form I provided the students with four questions. These are some of their responses:
1. What were benefits of having the computers in our social studies classroom?
"It made things easier and more organized, and it made it able to work easier from home."
"It made it easier to work on work that you started in your house."
"It was easier because you can work on things at home and it is more organized"
"Computers made it easier to write essays for projects and we got to use them for interactive
lessons!"
2. What did you like about the video lessons?
"We could replay them as much as we could, to retake notes, or see something we missed"
"We could rewatch them as much as we want."
"That we could listen to it"
"We could watch them as many times as we wanted"
"We did not have to ask 'what did you say” and everyone could go their own pace"
"I liked that everyone could go at their own pace and we could rewatch them to get the information."
"You can pause it whenever you want and go back to different parts of the video"
"You could stop and start them instead of having the teacher repeat things."
3. What would you change about the video lessons?
"I would make them more interactive."
"More pictures"
"Nothing"
"More pictures"
"They should be more interactive"
"Shorter"
"I would make them shorter and more interactive."
4. What would you like to do more of with the computers?
"I would like to be able to use social media more with them."
"More social media cough cough email cough"
"Watch videos"
"CNN student news"
"YouTube!!!!!!!"
"Play more social studies games like mission U.S."
"Be able to take them home and use them when we need."