I guess all along what I have really been doing is a flipped lesson. After doing my first flipped lesson with my grade five class, I'm hooked. Yes, I need to improve the video quality, but that was easy. I can make those art lesson recordings and have the students watch them the day before. It will sure free me up in the classroom; almost like I had an E.A. in my classroom to go around and work with individual students. Over time, I could expand to include my own math lessons like Khan Academy. I will certainly be sharing this with my fellow staff members at the next pro-d day. Come and watch my first "Flipped" lesson at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IcA2-6cvb0&feature=youtu.be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmtgz95ZBbE&feature=relmfu
With more than 2500 Video’s, I believe that Salaman Khan has created a tool that with both enhance learning and enhance teaching. Students will be able to access Khan Academy videos when they need assistance with their learning. And the students will be able to review and playback the video’s as many times as they need to. Something they are unable to do within traditional learning environments. Teachers can also use videos from Khan Academy to enhance their teaching. Often teachers have one way of teaching new information to their students. This does not always work for every student. Khan Academy videos can teach teachers how to teach concept more effectively. Having a “Guest” speaker come into the classroom to enhance the everyday teaching, is a great way to motivate students. I often use Khan Academy videos in my classroom to allow me to review concepts prior to me teaching them. In addition, I also create links on my class wiki of Khan Academy videos. I can scan and post the daily math assignments for the students onto my wiki and link it to a Khan Academy video. This allows students who were unable to be in my classroom that day, still have some instruction on how to perform the math concept. Not only does it allow thee students to keep up, it frees me up when the student returns to the classroom; I do not have to spend a lot of time re-teaching missed math curriculum. I have also found and used videos to teach art lessons. For example, I have found a series of three videos where Barbara Reid teaches how to use plasticine to make pictures. Each video is about 5 minutes long. I have been using this series of Barbara Reid Videos for about three years now. As Barbara Reid becomes the teacher in my classroom, I become the assistant; handing out supplies. One of my goals over the next two years in to take twenty art lessons that my students enjoy, and creating videos to use and shre with other grade 5 teachers. Just imagine if we could create a data base of art videos. |