Blog Post #9


       A flipped classroom defies the normal roles you would normally think of teachers and students having in a class and the way their time is spent. Rather than a teacher lecturing during instructional time, for homework the students listen to prerecorded lectures. this changes the student's role changes from "passive receivers to active learners engaged in exploration and discovery" since they have already learned the basis of content and fundamentals through homework. This allows for teachers for take a guidance role in deepening understanding of content rather than an information source pouring/drilling information into students. Technology is vital in the success of flipped classroom, so students can access their at home lectures through YouTube, Twitter and other websites. Here is a link to "TeacherTube" a website full of educational videos that teachers could use in their classrooms: https://www.teachertube.com



 



      Through open education, people around the world who may be limited because of health, financial resources or even location can be exposed to the wealth of knowledge that has the potential to be shared to all people through the technology of today. Today's schools often have a "fundamental disconnect between old practices and the vast potential of technology and the Internet to support more affordable and effective teaching and learning." Allowing all people to have access to the information available through technology is the a great way to begin to close this gap. Anyone from all around the world can use open resources "free of legal, financial and technical barriers" allowing for our learning to be endless.  Open content interpreted by all kinds of people than discussed between them can allow for us as a society to reach our "great goals while making learning and teaching more effective".
Source: https://sparcopen.org/open-education/

        By working more in depth with PowerPoint recently I have gained and refined many new skills applicable within the software. I have always known the features of transitions and animations but I used to put them in on random slides, images, etc. just for fun but now that I was making a lesson for a specific class I learned how to use uniformity throughout transitions to preface if we were moving onto to an activity, a notes slide, or an introduction/conclusion slide. I also got to experience what it is like to use the presenter recording for the first time. It was cool to see your presentation really become more than just slides with information, you can give examples and anecdotes that students can gain almost the same learning experience they would in class. Using hyperlinks as a way to form a nonlinear presentation is also a new skill that we have worked on throughout using PowerPoint, I like how you can hyperlink to websites, images, or the home slide etc. but I don't like how nonlinear is used the same as linear because I feel like some times it is just extra work for the same presentation if used in this manner.

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