Flipped Dinosaurs
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Traditional ways of teaching focus
on teachers’ effective lecturing about knowledge. All students have to do is
sit in the class quietly and copy down everything the teacher has to write on the
blackboard. Most of the time in class is spent on the delivery of content, and
higher-order skills, like discussion and production, are usually ignored.
Flipped Classroom, on the other
hand, brings students’ learning to the spotlight. By watching videos at home,
students can learn at their own pace and come to class more prepared. They can
pause, rewind and rewatch the videos as many times as they need to. The teacher
then can spend most of the class time on application of content, walking between
groups to offer guidance so that students can have more opportunities to apply
what they learned.
Take this class for example, students
have to watch two videos about dinosaurs, paleontologists and fossils at home
first. The teacher begins his class by asking questions regarding the videos to
check their understanding. Following that, students work in groups to finish
the worksheets together by looking for information online with their tablets. Next,
with the help with KWL Chart, students can reflect on their own learning and
come up with ideas for further exploration. Last but not least, students take a
quiz to demonstrate they've achieved goals set by the teacher.
Throughout the whole class, the
teacher is no longer the only center of the class. Instead, the students take
on a much more active role by working together to both discuss important ideas
and organize their thoughts in order to practice doing a simple presentation in
English. After all, the ultimate goal of learning a language should be all
about communication. As for tablets, they can come in handy when teachers want
to create their own videos, get students to research online, monitor learning
performance, devising learning materials, even improve student behavior, to
name just a few.
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