Neo LMS

JUNE 28, 2022

It helps them find a balance between frontal lessons and individual study, interaction and reflection, formal evaluation and self-assessment. . Today’s educational technology makes it easier to support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond it. Flipped classes. They don’t only help educators teach and assess students.

LMS 403

LMS Classroom E-rate Competency Based Learning 403

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s.

Flipped Classroom 140

Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 140

Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 20, 2016

Recently I have been helping a number of teachers move from a flipped classroom to the Flipped Mastery classroom. A mastery classroom is difficult to implement because students are not all learning the same thing at the same time. Benjamin Bloom wrote a landmark paper called Learning For Mastery in 1968.

Moodle 40

Moodle Assessment Flipped Classroom Video 40

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

One of the first curricular tools I built to share—on the first day of school—was a public, student-friendly gradebook on Google Sheets. Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!) This competency-based system made sense; if students were chronically absent, holding them accountable to a pacing calendar would prove futile.

System 124

System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 124

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I came away from the institute eager to try inquiry-based instruction in my class during the 2015-16 school year. The switch to inquiry-based learning required a dramatic shift from teacher- to learner-driven instruction. They self-assess and give themselves a grade, which goes in the gradebook as long as it’s reasonable.

Data 163

Data Classroom Strategy Student Engagement 163

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. The Flipped Classroom". He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145