So this year I am 'flipping,' recording mini-lectures, and asking my students to watch a video for homework -- in essence I am 'flipping' the lecture and homework. I see it as a way to help differentiate for my students and gain precious class time. Some students, maybe even a majority (arguable), do okay with the traditional lecture, but that leaves a large portion who cannot follow the lecture due to many factors - whether they struggle or excel, or are more kin esthetic -- the point is lectures are not the best for a sizable segment of a class.
And it looks like the videos will really work well for nearly all the students -- this is based on the instructional videos I have been watching at FIZZ. The traditional lecture students will still get what they need, the advanced students can fast forward and students that want or need more review can stop me and repeat me!
The challenge will be planning higher order activities in the open time. I am starting slowly, just my Algebra Class and maybe a couple of Physics things. And as I finish the first group of 20-30 videos I will spin my attention to how the class will run from bell-to-bell.
It means changing the work they do, how they do it and how they show they did it. Now the FIZZ site does have a team grouping worksheets and a lesson plan that I want to work with (just starting to work with it). It kind of matches what I want to start doing, which is taking more time with students working out problems in groups and presenting out solutions.
But I also want to have them spend more time working out bigger problems too. Ones requiring research, assumptions, conjectures and revisions. And I truly believe this is how we will make students ready for the world. So watch out world - here comes math videos co-starring Mr. Anderson, remember the math is the star.
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