Module 5 Flip Project

       For my education in technology class, we had to do a project where each student had to create a flipped classroom video by ourselves or with a partner. The flipped classroom is where students will receive a video to watch the night before class of the material that would have been taught during school hours. Since students watched the lesson the night before, it will then allow the entire class to work on activities, ask more questions and do examples, and allows for more engagement with their peers. When the class was given this assignment, I was not worried as much since I had this type of classroom in high school for physics. Along with creating a flipped classroom video, we had to make a multiple choice quiz that went along with Bloom's Taxonomy.

       With this project, I collaborated with a classmate to create a lesson for a third-grade math class. We created a lesson teaching the students what quadrilaterals are and different characteristics of a couple of them like a square and rhombus. To create this lesson, we used the tools we have already been introduced to throughout this class which are WeVideo, Notebook 17, and Screencast-O-Matic. As we put together what we were going to teach, we had to make sure the students could understand and follow along to what they could see and hear. In our video, we drew on the Notebook 17 while recording to help the students understand what we were talking about in that specific moment. When it came to creating the quiz, we had difficulties.

       Creating the quiz for our lesson was the challenging portion of the project for us. From learning in class, there are ways in which a multiple choice quiz should be presented for the students understanding but also had to challenge them. This is where Bloom's Taxonomy helped and challenged us while making the quadrilateral quiz. Bloom's Taxonomy challenged us to have the students apply and analyze the different shapes and characteristics of a quadrilateral on the quiz. Since our video covered most of what we wanted to put on this quiz, it was difficult to figure out a way to challenge the students. In the end, we were able to make a quiz that worked well.

       In the end, I can see the flipped classroom working well in a variety of grades since many children know how to watch videos online. It will be beneficial for each of them since they can watch a lesson at their own pace and can pause and rewind as many times needed. Since my experience with a flipped classroom during high school went well, I would be willing to use this technique to teach my future students. It will allow me to then give them more one-on-one time to help them understand portions of the lesson they might have struggled with.