Flipped Social Studies Classroom

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Flipped Social Studies Classroom

• By Adam Schnug

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What is the flipped classroom?

• Credit for the beginning of the flipped classroom
  began with two science teachers at a Colorado
  High School
• Since that time it has evolved into different
  styles and is growing at an exponential rate.
• It is blended learning

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How it began for my class

• In October of last school year I read an article
  about the flipped classroom and thought it was
  a good idea.
• After learning more about the flipped classroom
  (youtube, edutopia) I decided to give it a try

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How it began in my class

• During my planning period I set up a flip cam and
  recorded my lecture of the John Adams Presidency.
• Just me in the classroom
• Gave the normal lecture
• I posted it on my I-SS webpage and told my
  students to watch it at home as a test run

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How it began in my class

• The following day I asked for feedback on how the
  process went.
• Problems all over the place
• Still I continued to make videos and post them
  and kept the process going. Along the way I
  learned some tricks and found some helpful
  resources

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Data!

• Around March the class was moving along with the
  flipped classroom comfortably. I wanted to see
  how well the process was working so I collected
  some data.
• Checked overall grades
• Checked missed assignments
• Checked exam scores

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Data Results

• Data revealed a huge improvement in one area and
  a small improvement in another.
• Missed Assignments (0s)
• Before the flipped classroom 21 total (2 students
  A and B had above 5 each)
• After the flipped classroom I had 3 for the
  remainder of the school year.
• Student A had all three - phone call home

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Data Results

• Report card grades increased on average by 2. A
  small improvement related to the lack of zeros
  received.
• Did not see a difference in classroom exam scores.

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What not to do

• Early in the creation of the videos, my focus was
  on the homework videos.
• The classroom activity after the video is far
  more important than the video.
• Do not waste time checking to see if students
  watched the videos.
• Dont post your videos on one webpage for
  students to access
• Use youtube (or a website like it) and dont
  forget to disable the comments!

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What not to do

• Do not make videos longer than 5 to 7 minutes.
• Student attention span downloading and uploading
  takes awhile.
• Never post the links to videos that are part of a
  playlist.

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No internet, no problem!

• So what about the students who dont have
  internet at home?
• Another reality is the internet doesnt work all
  the time.
• Set time aside for them at the beginning of class
  to watch the videos.

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Ah-Ha moments

• Students will help you! The reality is they
  probably know more about technology than we do.
  Ask them for help if you need it.
• Uploading videos to Youtube was the best way for
  all my students to see the videos we created.
• By the end of the year, most students watched the
  videos on the bus on the way to school with their
  smart phones.
• Most of your videos are already created for you,
  you just have to find them.

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Ah-Ha moments

• 5th question on our I-SS Model
• What will we do if they already know it?
• Have them evaluate the videos prior to viewing!
• The videos dont need to be your lectures all the
  time.

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Example of a Flipped Lesson

• Go home tonight and view this video on the XYZ
  Affair. Write a one paragraph essay explaining
  the events that took place.
• Next day we put ourselves in John Adams shoes
  and evaluate his options as a class.
• Students then broke up into groups (each group
  was assigned a specific option to evaluate)
• Then the students are regrouped so there is one
  option located in each group and they share their
  findings
• Each group voted on the way out of class which
  option was best.

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Resources for creating videos

• Screencast-o-matic
• Free online screen recorder that allows you to
  upload to youtube
• TechSmith.com/screencastcom
• Free (up to a point) similar to
  screencast-o-matic
• Screenr
• Very simple, like screencast-o-matic

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Samples of Flipped Videos

• Khan Academy Ancient Rome
• Careful with Khan Academy most videos may be
  above our students understanding or too long.
• TED-Ed Teenager in Ancient Rome
• Thought provoking videos most videos come with
  questions and ways to dig deeper
• Cosmolearning Aral Sea
• Cosmolearning compiled a ton of videos into
  categories
• Knowmia

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Resources to help you get started

• https//flippedlearning.eduvision.tv/default.aspx
• http//flippedclassroom.org/
• http//flippedlearning.org/
• http//flipped-learning.com/
• http//www.ascd.org/professional-development/webin
  ars/flipped-classroom-webinars.aspx
• http//www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-c
  lass-conversation-689.php
• https//sites.google.com/a/fargoschools.org/integr
  atingtechnologyfargonorth/resources-tools-for-flip
  ping-your-classroom