Flipped Classroom

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Last updated: Jul 06, 2018 by Kathy Fernandes
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From Wikipedia:

A flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning environment by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom. It moves activities, including those that may have traditionally been considered homework, into the classroom where students often work together to support one another in their learning and understanding which may include problem-solving together.

  • Homework 
    • Using Adaptive Learning or other online modules to interact with the subject
  • Class work
    • Using group work to engage with one another and the content

Fullerton - Algebra

Fullerton is using the Flipped Classroom for Algebra. They are using Open Stax books (open resources) and the online activity tool called XYZ Homework.

Here is the link for the following materials:

  • Video of XYZ Homework by Cherie Ichinose 
  • Video of Flipping the Classroom By Cherie Ichinose
  • "Ticket in the door" activity sheet
  • Example of Guided Notes

East Bay - Calculus I

East Bay is using the Flipped Classroom for Calculus I. They produced videos that students were told to watch before coming to class to work on using the concepts taught in the videos.

The three main technology tools we use are Desmos.com, the suite of applications from Wolfram Alpha, and ABCD cards which are a low-tech version of clickers. Some technological tools were used by the instructor for demonstration purposes, and other tools were used by the students for in-class activities or to supplement background mathematical knowledge. In particular, we implemented the following:

  • Desmos: class activity on limits (Desmos Limits Activity)
  • Desmos: graphing functions to use in class exercises
  • Wolfram Problem Generator: we encouraged students to work out problems in the areas where they are weak, such as factoring polynomials (appears in evaluating limits, velocity problems and max/min problems), practicing product, quotient, or chain rule for differentiation, etc. (Wolfram Problem Generator)
  • Wolfram CDF player to show animation of important concepts. Examples are limits of functions, the tangent line problem, and maximizing the volume of an open top box.
  • ABCD paper cards: this is a low-tech version of clickers
  • Latex: we used this mathematical typesetting software in order to produce a series of guided handouts for our class.

See the full context and implementation strategies by Dr. Julia Olkin and her colleagues in this course redesign teaching ePortfolio.