Blog Journal 10

The Flipped Classroom is an idea that I think I would like to follow as an educator. As a student, I always hated listening to a lecture in class and then have to go practice the materials at home, because I would end up needing help and I wouldn’t be able to get it from the teacher. In the Flipped Classroom model, students learn the material at home and then practice in the classroom, making it easier to follow along and ask questions about the practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdKzSq_t8k8

With the Interactive Non-linear Powerpoint assignment, I learned new skills I can use in and outside the classroom. I had seen before that you could make games and such with powerpoint, but I never understood how it could in an order other than linear. However, learning about the buttons and how it is possible to move around the presentation without going in an order made it seem more possible for me to use powerpoint for other things and cool activities.

In the blog post “what I learned from your blog posts #1-5,” an interesting topic I saw was about how lesson plans might be changed due to new technology that Abraham brought up. I think this is an interesting idea, and I agree. I have always seen lesson plans on paper and with worksheets, but with new technological advancements in the classroom every day, new lesson plans should evolve with them.