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Flipped classroom- what is it?-from Monica

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Flipped classroom- what is it?-from Monica

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Flipped classroom model

What is flipped learning?

- instructions are delivered online, outside the class

-homework is moving into the classroom

Students are more in charge on their own learning.

Teachers prepare selected material

Showbie

Khan Academy

Socrative

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Thank you, Sergio

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Thanks!

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Interesting lesson plan.

Congratulations!

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From assignments to collaboration, Showbie helps you bring your classroom together in one simple, easy to use app.

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Dream English songs are used all over the world to teach English to children, and for Special Education.
Join Matt and learn basics from ABCs and 123s to how to order food in a restaurant. Get started now! It's Free!

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Congratulations, dear Pavlina!Great LD an useful resourses.

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The Teacher’s Guide To Flipped Classrooms

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Since Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams first experimented with the idea in their Colorado classrooms in 2004, flipped learning has exploded onto the larger educational scene. It's been one of the hottest topics in education for several years running and doesn't seem to be losing steam.

Basically, it all started when Bergman and Sams first came across a technology that makes it easy to record videos. They had a lot of students that regularly missed class and saw an opportunity to make sure that missing class didn't mean missing out on the lessons. Once students had the option of reviewing the lessons at home, the teachers quickly realized the shift opened up additional time in class for more productive, interactive activities than the lectures they'd been giving.

And voila: a movement began.

A 2014 survey from the Flipped Learning network found that 78% of teachers said they'd flipped a lesson, and 96% of those that tried it said they'd recommend it.

What is a flipped classroom?

Once a new idea becomes a buzzword, pinning down the definition can become a tad more challenging. The flipped learning network has developed what they hope will be seen as the definitive definition:

"Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter."

That gets the idea across, but it's a bit of a mouthful. The gist, in somewhat simpler terms, is that it's about moving the more passive elements of learning (watching a lecture, reading a chapter, etc.) outside of the classroom, so that more class time is available for interactive, hands-on learning.

Most people hear "flipped learning" and picture kids watching videos at home, but proponents of it suggest that it doesn't have to be exclusively about videos. Teachers are encouraged to give students options - some students will still learn better by reading a textbook chapter, but others will benefit from videos, audio files, or any other type of material you can find or create that covers a given topic.

The Benefits of Flipping Your Classroom

For a veteran teacher, flipping the classroom means completely re-thinking how to do the job you've done a certain way for years. And it comes with some extra work. That being the case, why would any teacher bother?

1. Flipped learning keeps students more engaged.

The flipped classroom model addresses how students learn best. We all know how hard it can be to stay focused during a long lecture, even if it's on a subject we're especially interested in. Discussions and hands-on activities tend to keep students' interest. While you work with students directly as they explore the concepts they're learning in class, you can provide immediate feedback that helps them improve their learning as they go.

2. Teachers provide more personalized attention.

Students don't all learn at the same pace and in the same ways. That's always been a complicating factor in teaching. The question of how to meet thirty or more unique students at their own levels is one that keeps teachers up at night.

The flipped classroom model gives teachers more opportunities to work directly with students. They can therefore clearly see when an individual student is having trouble with a concept and work with them directly to get through it. The increased interaction with students in the classroom will help teachers gain a clearer idea of the different learning styles of their students, so they can tailor their instruction to the needs of each one.

3. Students can work at their own pace.

A student sitting in a lecture, diligently taking notes will almost certainly miss one thing the professor says while writing down another. And that's still a vast improvement over the student whose mind wanders so they don't catch much of anything.

If they're watching a video at home instead, they have the power to pause the lecture while they write something down, and rewind and re-watch a particular part they didn't fully understand the first time. If they feel they could really use a second viewing to better understand the concept, they have that option. They have more power over the way and process by which they study and learn.

Examples of Flipped Classrooms

As in most things, there's no one right way to flip a classroom or lesson. But knowing how other teachers have done it can help give you ideas about what will work best for you.

The Backwards Classroom

Stacy Roshan's classroom is probably the closest to what most people think of as a "flipped classroom" of those on our list, although she's referred to it as the " backwards classroom " herself. She flipped her classroom largely to help reduce the anxiety she saw students experience in her AP Calculus class whenever she'd introduce complicated new concepts.

For homework, her students watch videos she's recorded in advance that cover the concepts explored in each chapter of her textbook. They spend their time in class doing the types of math problems that students have traditionally done as homework. If they have difficulty working through a problem, the teacher's right there for them to ask for help.

She does have to spend a lot of time creating those videos, but is happy enough with the results of using a flipped model that she's been at it for over four years now and is taking the time to experiment with new ways to make it better, like including embedded quizzes in the videos that students watch at home.

The Faux Flipped Classroom

One of the common criticisms leveled at flipped learning is that it depends on a certain amount of privilege: what about all the students who don't have a computer at home to watch videos on? Tracey Gillies addresses this concern with what she calls the "faux flipped" classroom.

Students who don't have a computer at home can watch the assigned video in class. Gillies' classroom is full of students each doing their own thing - watching a video, working out problems, taking quizzes, or posting or commenting on an online discussion board to get input from other students. Each of them is able to work on an assignment for as long as they need in order to master it, and then move on.

And Gillies is there to work with anyone who needs her help, at whatever point in the process they are at.

An Evolved Flipped Classroom

Shelley Wright embraced the flipped classroom back in 2011 and wrote a post about her experiences with flipped learning so far. But she followed it up a year later with a new post about how her flipped classroom had turned into something else - not a reversion back to the traditional way, but a more evolved version of the student-centered classroom she was seeking by flipping her lessons.

As students in her classroom became better at taking the lead on finding valuable resources and pursuing learning their own way, she shifted her focus to helping them with the process of learning how to learn better on their own rather than teaching about the subjects directly.

Her lesson to other teachers interested in flipped learning seems to boil down to: don't think it's all about the videos, they can be a part of it or not. It's about shifting from passive learning to active learning, in whatever way works for you and your students.

The Tools of Flipped Learning

A comprehensive list of every possible tool educators could use to flip a classroom would require a book (and probably still miss some), but we wanted to address a few resources that are common in flipped classrooms.

Of course, familiar tools like YouTube, Evernote, Google Drive, and blogging platforms can play a role as well, but here are a few more specifically suited to flipped learning.

To create videos for students to watch at home, you'll need easy-to-use screencasting software. Camtasia isn't the only one on the market; you can find a list of some of the other screencasting tools you can use here (including some free ones). We're highlighting Camtasia, because the company has optimized the tool for flipped classrooms.

Using Camtasia is fairly intuitive for new users. It allows you to record either your screen, or yourself. And, in one of the features that most sets it apart, it allows you to add interactive elements to your video. You can include quizzes throughout a video to test students' comprehension of what they've just seen, and you can include links out to any additional materials you want them to read or view. It does cost $75 if you're buying the Mac version, and $179 for the PC version, so it's a bit of an investment. But there are volume discounts that may help out if enough teachers in one institution are interested in exploring the flipped classroom.

Part of the appeal of flipped classrooms is that all that extra class time provides more opportunities for collaboration amongst students. Wikispaces is a great tool for encouraging and enabling that collaboration. It's free, unless your school is interested in purchasing a more secure version of the product.

The free version provides a lot of useful features though. You can give students assignments through the wiki, for both individual and group projects. You can load content for them to review and comment on, start discussions (or let them do so), and track how engaged different students are with the content you've assigned. It's plenty useful for non-flipped classrooms as well, but can help students collaborate and interact more both within and outside of the classroom, so lends itself especially well to the challenges of flipped learning.

EdModo is one of the most commonly used education tools in the world and can even claim the title of largest K-12 social network. It enables a lot of the same kind of tasks that Wikispaces does: loading content and assignments for your students to access, and allowing students to share discussions and comments, for instance. But it adds a much larger social element since you can interact with other students and educators beyond your own classroom. That means you can tap into the content and lessons beyond those you've developed and students can seek out insights beyond those their own classmates have.

The tool also provides analytics that help you spot who needs help with what so you can make your class time more productive. And students can access everything loaded to Edmodo on mobile devices as well as desktops, so they can do their learning wherever works best for them.

Like WikiSpaces and Edmodo, Moodle has the functionality to serve as the platform for a flipped classroom. Teachers can load resources, including any relevant ones they find shared by other teachers in Moodle, to create the assignments and curriculum for each class.

Conveniently, an educator from Northwest Regional ESD created a course on how to flip a class using Moodle within Moodle itself. So you can learn about some of the best practices and processes, while also seeing an example of what a course in Moodle looks like at the same time. You can load all the content related to each module, divide it according to topics, and include a variety of content formats.

The last resource on our list is less about providing or organizing content and assignments for your students, and more about actively soliciting their feedback. If the goal of a flipped classroom is to make the learning experience more student-centered, then it makes sense to regularly check in with them.

You can use Poll Everywhere both for occasional quizzes to see how students are doing throughout a class period and to solicit input from the class on which concepts to focus on and how to address them. If you have three ideas for activities students can do together to explore a particular concept, make them choices students can vote on. You can group the students according to their preferences, or focus on the winning option for activities that involve the whole class.

Additional Helpful Resources

As you've noticed by now, this is a big subject. You can find a lot more to learn and say about flipped learning than we've covered here. If you want more information before trying the flipped classroom out, here are some helpful places to start:

In Conclusion

The flipped classroom may not be for everyone. It involves some extra upfront work and just might not mesh with the teaching style of every educator out there. But enough of the teachers that have tried it are having success that you may find it worthwhile to experiment with flipping a lesson or two to see what happens. You might just become a convert.
Editor's note: This article is a revision and combination of several older Edudemic articles, updated and re-analyzed to reflect the latest innovations.

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1. Dream: we want something -

2. Explore: we do research

3. Map: we order and systemize the informations

4. Make: we realize what we wanted

5. Ask: we ask for input from others

6. Remake: We work to streamline the products

7. Show: we share the results

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I am on my first steps on flipping my

classroom using tablets. But I feel-my students

are more confident and active. We`ve done more

activities. I think I'll continue using this method.

Students learn better as they are really engaged.

Challenges for me are:

-TIME to prepare my resources

-Giving individual feedback (I have 24

students)

- Get a tablet for all students

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I use tablets to

develop students`writing,

speaking and art skills using audiovisual games, apps

and exercices with feedback, This way every student

can follow their own rhythm.

Tablets can be used by the students to present

their final product of work.

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My students are 8-10 years old.

They are too young to reflect about

their styles of learning, it`s very difficul

t at their knowledge to identify that.

I explain them the different ways of learning.

I usualy ask them what kind of work they prefer.

At the beginning of the school year

I always give entry tests ,using different strategies,

Observation and discuss with their parents and

other teachers that teach these studentsis are also

important for me in classrooms with 24 students

it is difficult to give careful attention to the students'

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http://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/

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Learning+Diary+Example+Review.pdf/

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4.6.Apps for personalized learning and flipping the classroom

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4.6.Apps for personalized learning and flipping the classroom

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http://ucha.se/

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en

http://www.showbie.com/

https://www.khanacademy.org/

http://www.socrative.com/

http://www.aurasma.com/#/whats-your-aura

http://goanimate.com/videomaker/full/custom

http://www.dreamenglish.com/

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Thanks, Rosie! :)

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Wonderful learning diary, dear Pavlina!

And great resourses you have shared.

Thanks a bunch :)

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1. http://www.etwinning.net/bg/pub/index.htm

Easy and funny:

http://edu.glogster.com/?ref=com

https://www.edmodo.com/classrooms

Dropbox and Facebook

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3. 3. What strategies have you used to assess group work? What are the main challenges for you when it comes to assessing group work?

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3. 3. What strategies have you used to assess group work? What are the main challenges for you when it comes to assessing group work?

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Assessing group work has the similar characteristic as assessing individual work: - objectives of the assignment, both process and product. Also:

- Group performance

-I also ask students to assess their own contribution to the team.They must evaluate their own teamwork skills using a self-assessment that focuses on the process skills. It is important to assess individual contributions and understanding.

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3. 2. How do you keep your students focused and on track during collaborative projects? How do you ensure all students contribute to the task?

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3. 2. How do you keep your students focused and on track during collaborative projects? How do you ensure all students contribute to the task?

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-I give simple and clear instructions

-Make a lists of predefined tasks. The work had to return to their levels of competence.

-I try to show students that Individual success is dependent upon group success and they must assist each other.

-I give students from the most sucsseful group badges or stickers to motivate groups.

-To motivate individual students and discourage the free-rider phenomenon, it is important to assess individual contribution

-Every group has a checklist.

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3.1. How do you form groups of students for group work and why do you take this approach? Based on your experience what strategies of forming groups work and which do not work? Why?

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3.1. How do you form groups of students for group work and why do you take this approach? Based on your experience what strategies of forming groups work and which do not work? Why?

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When I think how to make groups, I usually look for common interests of pupils. But if groups are from 3 or 4 (because bigger groups don`t work well-in my opinion), I try to form

heterogeneous groups. "Students from different backgrounds, having different abilities, experiences and interests, represent a rich resource." Then I give them time limit to assign roles in the group.

Every time the decisions about group size is different-deppending fo tasks.

There must be is a close accompaniment by the teacher. I (as a teacher) must observe the behaviors of each student in groups. I must Identify situations of conflict and provide further support in this case.

-I try to include in each group a student who has good organising skills

-I repeat several times that they need to listen to others and establish common goals

-The main challenges for me is to explain children that their roles depend of their skills. Sometimes something is not on the right track. My role as teacher-mediator needs to react and change the roles.

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Great apps for kids by Cristina Nicolaita

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Great apps for kids by Cristina Nicolaita

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Add text, web link, video & audio hotspots on top of your image and 360 content.

On thinglink.com, edit images, videos and 360 photos in one place. Explore content created by others.

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Use the ThingLink mobile app to tag images on smartphones and tablets.

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Great Apps for kids, Best Free Apps for Kids, iPad Guidel... by Mrs. Brown

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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Below is a list I have been working on for the last couple of days. This list features some interesting web tools for teachers keen on integrating technology into their instruction and work routine. There are loads of web platforms that are educationally focused and to contain them all in one list is way beyond the scope of a short blog post like this , therefore I selected only what I deemed the most important.

Google Drive is a great suite of productivity tools that works across different devices. Google Drive provides 15 GB of free storage. Wheher you want to create stunning presentations, collaborate on a document, make beautiful drawing or design spreadsheets for your class, Google Drive is the answer. Check out this resource page to explore the tools and tips on how to use Google Drive in your teaching.

Dopbox is another wonderful cloud-based storage platform that allows you to easily save and store your docs and PDFs and share them with others. The syncing capacities of Dropbox makes it a must have tool for teachers. Check out this resource page to learn more about this tool

Evernote is powerful web tool that you can use to make notes, bookmark webpages and many more. Evernote is free and works across different devices mobile and web based. Check this page to discover tools you can use to tap into the educational potential of Evernote.

This is one of the best social networking platform out there. Twitter allows you to create your PLN and and connect with other educators from all around the world. Check Twitter for teachers to learn more about this web tool.

This is another wonderful social networking platform and though it is not as popular as Twitter , Google Plus remains a powerful platform for connecting with like minded teachers and educators. It also offers some great services like Google Hangout, Communities, pages and many more. Check out this resource page to learn more about these services

Pinterest is a visual bookmarking website that allows you to bookmark,organize, and curate your digital content into pinboards that can be easily shared with others. This page has some practicap tips on how to use Pinterest with your students.

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Check out this page to learn more about how to use Edmodo with your students.

Tweetdeck allows you to create a custom Twitter experience. Organize and build custom timelines, keep track of lists, searches, activity and more-all in one interface.

This is a cloud based presentation tool that allows you to creating awesome presentations embeddable in different websites and blogs

This is a cool tool to use to turn the feeds of your Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus into a neat looking magazine.

ThingLink is a web tool that lets you create interactive images. These interactive images can contain links, videos, presentations and many more.

This is a good platform you can use to collect, and curate your favourite stories and read them in a magazine like format.

This is Voice-over-IP service that allows you make individual and group calls. It is also an ideal tool to host hangouts and tutorials.

This platform allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.

Edutopia is one of my favourite educational resource, Edutopia's motto is "Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education."

19- Google in Education

This is a platform created by Google where you will get to learn everything you need to know about using Google products in education

20- YouTube Video Editor
This is by all means a wonderful video creating and editing tool for teachers and students. It is available for free on YouTube and is very simple to use

WeVideo is an online video creation platform, providing video editing, collaboration, and sharing across any device - mobile, tablets, laptops & PCs.
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This is an excelent web tool that lets you curate content in the web and organize it into boards similar to Pinterest boards.

Talk, Listen. TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your students in realtime.
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The new Keynote for Mac makes it easy to create and share stunning presentations. Interactive charts make data pop. It's even PowerPoint compatible.
25-Poll Everywhere

Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote
26-Piktochart

From all the infographic making tools out there, PiktoChart is one of the best of them all. It's free and very easy to use. It also provides you with already made templates to use.

This is another wonderful web tool to curate, organize and share web content.

Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page
29- Slideshare

The world's largest community for sharing PowerPoint, OpenOffice presentations, Keynote, PDF and infographics.
3o-Pearltrees

Pearltrees is a social library. It lets you cultivate your interests. Collect, organize and share everything you like.

A safe, free way for teachers to text message students and keep in touch with parents.

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Topic: Must, Mustn`t -3 grade

Every 2 students colaborate using 1 tablet. They make dialogues,

-Study usage of Must, Mustn`t from the video (http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-videos/school-rules) ,

take a look to the teacher`s example and then create your own comic. Make dialogues, using Must, Mustn`t

Group 1- make a content about rules in classroom

Group 2- make a content "Pedestrian Safety Tips"

Group 3- make a content "Health tips"

Expected outcomes:

Every student will study usage of Must, Mustn`t by producing own comic

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Ideas for a piece of content you can

produce with your class that has a purpose

beyond the classroom activity

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-We decided not to do class paper poster about school rules.

Students agreed it`s more interesting do it by a tablet app.

-I divided students into groups.

-We can share these rules with smaller students.

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-Pet Yap is an interesting app that can make talking objects. I made

my video and explained crossing street rules. Then children made their

own talking notebooks, pets, traffic signs that repeated rules.

-Using the same app, children give voice to their pets. Now animals can describe

themselves.

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-After vacations we (children and I) shared our

photos using USB card, PC and projector. Boring

presentation of amazing moments. So I think it`s a good idea

to use Book creator app to make an album.

-Using the same app, I think to a sk my children to

create a listing for books they have read.

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Elena Mosa, INDIRE, Italy said the same that I think "... the role of the students
was really important because the students were actively engaged in the production of this content"

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Create A Comic - App Review - You Create Your Own Comic Strip

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Book Creator - the simple way to create beautiful e-books on the iPad. This video shows you how to create an e-book from scratch and read it in iBooks in just a minute and a half.

Available now in the App Store. Find out more at http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator

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Samsung Galaxy Tab Running Education App BlackBoard Mobile Learn

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Galaxy Tabs @ CLV -  Flipped Classroom and Galaxy Tabs

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Galaxy Tabs @ CLV -  Sound and Music apps

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Scenarios and Learning Stories will play an essention role in the Creative Classrooms Lab project. For the scenario development, the project builds on the expertise of the iTEC project. This flagship project on the design of the future classroom, which is also coordinated by European Schoolnet, is providing a Future Classroom Scenarios Toolkit that is being used by participating Ministries of Education in the CCL project.

This outcome of this process will guide the CCL teachers in the use of the tablets during the first round of pilots starting in November 2013.

Literature review

In preparation of the development of the scenarios, the e-Learning Foundation has carried out a literature review. This literature review identifies and documents results of published 1:1 studies related to a number of key themes, such as innovative and creative pedagogical use of tablets for collaborative learning, active learning, personalisation, engagement and assessment. Download the literature review here (v. July 2015)

The paper ' Tablet use in Schools' (v. February 2015) focuses on specific characteristics of the tablet.

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3. What do I need to consider at a classroom level when using tablets?

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3. What do I need to consider at a classroom level when using tablets?

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I started using classmate PC-tablets 4 years ago when my students were 6 years old. Now I use mobile devices only once a month, because I use other programmes and devices for educations like ENVISION, e-books, interactive whiteboard and PC in computer labs. I try to keep balance between using new technologies and traditional communication and learning between students and a teacher.

As Diana said, we need we have strong rules for using tablets and computers. And these rules are common for all teachers and students.

When we use tablets I always give pupils list with tasks. I try to show my students that they can use tablets for educational games and it can be funny.

The challanges  I found are:

-Time-for planning lessons and for realize them.

-- some students can do something else /play online games/

-the decision :which is the proper app for different tasks /I hope I will be more confident with this, after more use the tablets/

-free applications  for  use

I hope this course will give me answers and support.

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Using tablets require certain technical skills. In our situations- not all of my colleagues have such abilities. So, it`s important to improve teachers` digital skills. We have tablets for one class, so we must make a list and wait the order. Another challenge is time. Nowadays teachers have a lot of work-prepare tests, exams, etc. etc.- you know. Using tablets require time. Teachers must start thinking how teach in new way.

Technical support is another difficulty. Reality is - sometimes students support teachers, because they know a lot about devices. At the end but not at least-don`t forget parents! Some parents understand new reality and they help with using new technologies in school. We must involve more parents in the implementation of our projects.

We have one special course for using tablets and apps. But it`s not enouh. At school we share our knowledge with colleagues. So, we need a programme of how to learn new useful apps and exchange ideas.

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I`m a lucky teacher, cos in my school we have wi-fi and my school leader did`t need a reason to justify the big investment in tablets. She and some of my

colleagues are convinced of the benefits of using tablets in school. There is a policy to improve student`s skills and key competences that help pupils in future

I don`t want my sudents get bored during my lessons. Using tablets give me chance to support students creativity and use students` addiction to gadgets for studying. This way they are active part of the educational process. Students can collaborate and share their ideas. Studying can be fun!

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"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays."
Friedrich Schiller

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a primary teacher at 30 SOU "Bratya Miladinovi" It is a General secondary school located in

the centre of the capital of Bulgaria- Sofia.

There are more than 900 students and 75  teachers. My students are aged between 8 and 11  years.

At school students study  foreign languages​​: Spanish, German, English and Italian

Our teachers and studens are working on the latest programs on ICT. It is equipped with new Classmate PC

tablets, Windows tablets, interactive whiteboards, educational software. There are three computer labs.

During my career I was a primary, pre-primary teacher and English teacher. I am a curious person and I like learning new things.