I’d like to flip my either my World History I or II classrooms in quarter four. History is one of those courses where the same skills are simply applied across different content areas, so my choice of unit isn’t that important, although I suspect these two units (Medieval Europe and the Cold War, respectively) are somewhat better suited than others since there will be more video content available than that for a topic like Tang China.
Here’s a list of things I’ll need to consider:
- Where will I find video sources? How will intellectual property considerations affect my choice of materials?
- How will I hold students accountable for watching and understanding the videos?
- How will I check for that understanding in class?
- How will balance the removal of reading time from homework and keep exposing students to a variety of interesting and challenging text?
- Which of my assessments and activities will need to be removed/replaced?
- How can I create larger, more in-depth, and/or more authentic activities and assessments from that class time I’ve freed up?
- How will I hold students accountable for using the class time effectively?
- How can I maximize technology integration in my in-class assessments when we’re not on a 1:1 program?
- Do I NEED to maximize technology integration for maximum learning?
- How will I scaffold and teach the habits and skills that students will need to get the most from this new approach?
Here’s a very preliminary list of what I think this would entail:
- ~30 minute of nightly video
- Collaborative notes or viewing guide on Google Docs
- iClicker quizzes the next day
- Students’ choice of several tech assignments, with class time given to work on them in the labs:
- Infographic
- Digital story
- etc
- Class Activities:
- Speaking
- Role playing salon/speed dating
- Graded discussion
- Debates
- Writing
- Essay outlines
- Short answers
- Exit slips
- Reading
- Source analysis
- Current events parallels
- Short stories
- Review
- Crosswords
- Ball toss reviews