Monday, 2 June 2014

Flipping Your Classroom Jonathan Bergmann - Aaron Sams a review


With 37 years experience between them Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams give a step by step guide explaining how to  'flip your classroom'. With useful antidotes from practitioners practicing the art of the flipped classroom and real world examples, this text is a key manual for anyone looking to use technology to change pedagogy in their setting. 

The text has an informal feel with the authors purposely chunking the topics into smaller section giving the reader the chance to pop in and out extracting techniques and information to suit their needs. 

The text gives a chronological review of the authors journey, how they experimented, the pitfall they came across and what worked well for them. It describes how the methodology can be used to engage parents, cater for different learning styles and captivate children who have become disenfranchised, children who have become accustom at  'playing school'.

The book set is stool out early explaining it is not a research paper and as such has little or no referencing, which taken in mind the time it was written and the fact many of the concepts employed had never been done before is not totally unsurprising.

Friday, 30 May 2014

Jonathan Bergmann


Mastery Learning at Woodland Park High School from Jonathan Bergmann on Vimeo.


Johathan Bergmann author of flipping your classroom talks through the principles of Mastery Learning at Woodlands Park High School. This podcast also shows some demos explaining how to watch and review the podcasts and how to use screen captures.


Excelsior's online writting lab



Excelsior have published their Online Writing Lab or OWL 

Excelsior Collage have borrowed very heavenly from other online digital learning sites such as the Khan Academy with videos and follow up questions. Much like the Khan Academy the OWL it is also free and is yet another example of how online resources are helping children.
Flipped Classroom
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