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Flipped instruction and Twitter for independent learning

Terese Birdt.bird@le.ac.ukLearning Technologist and SCORE Research FellowInstitute of Learning InnovationQueen Elizabeth I College Research Talks 4-6-2014

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What shall we talk about?

• The Flipped Classroom

• Examples of successful flips

• Twitter as a catalyst toward independent learning

• Examples of how Twitter might be used for independent learning which feeds into class work

Photo by Trina Alexander on Flickr

The Flipped Classroom

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How to flip sensibly

Image by Xristina La on WikipediaCC-BY-SA

Class

Home

Example of successful flipping: Clintondalehttp://www.techsmith.com/customer-stories-clintondale.html

Resources for flipping• Make your own – ScreenR, ScreenOMatic, Quicktime

• Kahn Academy

Twitter for independent learning

#actandprotest

Ideas for Twitter to Flip

• Students follow 10 economics practitioners. For 1 week, watch what these are tweeting, and note 3 trends. Post these trends onto VLE or bring to class. Map these trends to current events.

• Students find 3 experts on a topic of their choice, to follow on Twitter. Students may wish to do this using an impersonal account (?). Students ask the experts their opinion of the topic, the current event, whatever it may be. Do these opinions make sense, change students’ perception of the topic?

More resources

• Mrs Caviness: http://novemberlearning.com/educational-resources-for-educators/teaching-and-learning-articles/how-twitter-can-be-used-as-a-powerful-educational-tool

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• 50 ways to use Twitter in the classroom: http://www.teachhub.com/50-ways-use-twitter-classroom

• Kahn Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/

What do we think?

• Public/private issues in social media

• Do the benefits outweigh the risks?

• Other issues?