blog post nine

- The “flipped classroom” is an innovative blended delivery model that currently has a following in K-12 and postsecondary education. This particular model is an outgrowth of educational vodcasting (educational video casts) of content first broadcasted by teachers, Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergman at Woodland Park High School, Woodland Park, Colorado. This instructional approach began by making lectures available to absent students and expanded to “flipping” the way students and teacher spend classroom time. Rather than students using the time spent in their classrooms listening to a teacher lecture on content and then working with that content for homework, in this model, the student listens to prerecorded video lectures for homework before coming to class. Thus, in the “flipped classroom” model, what traditionally occurs in the classroom (lecture) is prerecorded and delivered as homework outside the classroom setting via technology. This changes the students’ role from passive receivers of content to active learners engaged in exploration and discovery within the content’s framework.

* LINK: https://www.edutopia.org/blog/100-videos-lessons-flipped-classroom-joe-hirsch 

- I could not locate which podcast that was specifically referenced in blog post nines’ prompt. But, after looking searching “what is meant by ‘open’ terms in education?” I received numerous answers that I hope will suffice. The terms include open education, open access, open universities, open educational resources, open textbooks, open research, and so on. So, what do all these “open” terms mean/ refer to in education? Open education or education for all describes a free or very low cost school, college, or university where education is available to everyone within a particular jurisdiction, and it is usually funded primarily through the state. Open access to programs that lead to full, recognized qualifications – this is offered by national open universities, or more recently by the OERu. Another example is open educational resources that instructors or learners can use for free, like MIT’s open-courseware, which provides free online downloads of MIT’s video recorded lectures and support material, as well as open textbooks that are free for students to use. Overall, these “open” terms make learning more efficient for a digitally divided classroom.

 

-During our last class session for EME 2040 we worked on the Powerpoint for Information Dissemination assignment. Honestly, this task took me much longer to complete then I had anticipated and allowed me to brush up on my Powerpoint skills. Prior to this assignment, I had not known how to access the shapes tools and add cool lines and forms into my Powerpoint presentation. My assignment was on the Planets in our Solar System, so the addition of cool shapes and lines leading to one another was aesthetically pleasing, and quite informative to students who would be learning the content. I enjoyed re-learning how to effectively use and implement a hyperlink into an assignment because I am aware as a future educator I will need to know how to use that tool. I had no particular dislikes about this assignment, I felt as though it was very open, creative and easy to complete.