Here are three great tools for doing that: I am not quite ready to admit that the whole-class lecture is dead ( here’s a really interesting NY Times Op-Ed about this very topic ).īut, I do think that we can take those awesome PowerPoints/Google Slides, and using screencasting software, modernize what once took us a whole period to do in front of 25 students. I know that I was a student who responded fairly well to a good lecture. Teachers sometimes bristle when there are calls to give up on the “sage on the stage” model. This post will be the first in a series about introducing these videos with your classes. But, no matter how you blend your classroom, I am finding that the most powerful and game-changing choices we can make is to use short, engaging teacher-created videos. More notably, I’ve been using the station rotation model of blended learning, something that Tucker writes about quite frequently (My favorite blog posts of hers related to this model are here, here, here, and here ).

I found a lot of crossover between these two leaders’ voices, with both clearly outlining the WHYs and the HOWs behind their respective educational philosophies.

Tucker is an ELA teacher and Blended Learning extraordinaire. At around the same time, I discovered Catlin Tucker’s blog. I had the good fortune to hear Jon Bergmann speak at ISTE 2016 (I talk about this a little bit in my ISTE 2016 post here ), initiating my research into the flipped classroom. A little over a year ago, a few different spheres in the education orbit collided right in front of me, and I have been reaping the benefits since.

2017 free screencasting software