About Us We are a team of four Master of Education (Teacher-Librarianship) students that came together in March 2015 to create our Flipping Teachers web-based resource. The inspiration for our resource grew from Flipped Learning being featured in The NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition and to a lesser extent The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 K-12 Edition. Also, anecdote suggests that many secondary schools are investigating, providing professional development to their teachers, and introducing Flipped Learning. We share a mutual interest in innovative pedagogies, connected learning, secondary education, and new media that affords improvement in secondary students' educational outcomes. Consequently, we decided to contribute to the professional discussion on Flipped Learning by creating this resource. Flipping the Classroom was created as a practical resource to introduce secondary school teachers to Flipped Learning and to help them develop the necessary knowledge and skills to confidently apply this pedagogical approach to their professional practice. We have tried to develop a resource that allows teachers who share our interest in Flipped Learning to contribute to this resource, socialise around it and in it, and learn about this remarkably powerful 21st century teaching and learning approach in this space, our space. We hope that with time, and your vital contributions, that this will be the one stop shop for those keen to learn about Flipped Learning. |
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Pedagogical note: This resource was created in accordance with the framework of connected learning principles that is peer supported, interest driven and academically oriented (Ito et. al., 2013, 61-65). Flipping Teachers provides users the opportunity to learn through developing the necessary theoretical and conceptual framework with which Flipped Learning hinges, thus being academically oriented. Similarly, user interest is fostered through practical, high-quality, relevant and engaging activities that aid users in developing the necessary skills to confidently apply a Flipped Learning approach to their teaching. Some necessary skills to enact Flipped Learning are fostered in users through the 'Let's Get You Started' activities. A number of design considerations account for the 'peer supported' nature of this resource, primarily centering on the affordances of our 'community' areas. The various Web 2.0 platforms employed here serve to support the development of community, including our blog, the forum and their threads, and our Google+ community. These tools align this resource with the key connected learning principle of being 'peer-supported', since it provides the necessary features that allow for learners to 'contribute expertise, ideas, and questions, share work, give feedback to their peers, socialize and hang out, and mess around/play in a social context' (Ito et. al., 2013, 62).
References: Ito, M., Gutierrez, K, Livingstone, S., Penuel, B., Rhodes, J., Salen, K., Schor, J., Sefton-Green, J., and Craig Watkins, S. (2013). Connected learning: An agenda for research and design. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub.
Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V., and Freeman, A. (2014). NMC Horizon Report: 2014 K-12 Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium. Retrieved from http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2014-nmc-horizon-report-k12-EN.pdf
Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V., and Freeman, A. (2015). NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium. Retrieved from http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2015-nmc-horizon-report-HE-EN.pdf
Spencer. (2013) Flipped Learning Resources [Image]. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/runfardvs/8450019871/
Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V., and Freeman, A. (2014). NMC Horizon Report: 2014 K-12 Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium. Retrieved from http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2014-nmc-horizon-report-k12-EN.pdf
Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V., and Freeman, A. (2015). NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium. Retrieved from http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2015-nmc-horizon-report-HE-EN.pdf
Spencer. (2013) Flipped Learning Resources [Image]. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/runfardvs/8450019871/