Ken’s Adventures in Education
This is support for my short 15 minute presentation at the 3rd Annual International Conference on Innovation in Education (my translation to English) in Mexico City on December 13, 2016.
I’ve written before about my work with various tools, the focus lately is on student blogging and using a FeedWordPress setup to create a connected course where my students (and anyone else) can view the syndicated posts of the students in a single place.
My flip classroom does not include many videos. I create a video at the start (well, usually the start) of each week for each course to let them know what’s going to happen that week and what they should focus on.
I much prefer video on demand which matches the style of my classroom being focused on what each individual student needs.
originally posted at http://kenscourses.com/OpenFlipSpring2016/instructors/welcomebienvenidos/
Alternating paragraphs of English/Spanish here since we have a mixed audience. I invite corrections to my Spanish (or English). We plan (and always have with OpenFlip) to support work in both English and Spanish since Ken and April are native speakers of English with enough Spanish to work with teachers in both languages. Feel free to pursue this course in your language of choice or even try interacting with participants in both languages.
Párrafaros alternando aquí de inglés y español. Invito corregir mi español (o inglés). Tenemos planeado (y siempre ha sido así con OpenFlip) dar soporte en inglés y español dado que Ken y April tienen inglés como su lengua nativo con suficiente nivel en español para trabajar con maestros en los dos idiomas. Están bienvenidos en participar en el curso en cualquier de los dos idiomas o incluso dar el reto de interactuar con participantes con los dos.
Continue reading “Welcome/Bienvenidos – OpenFlip Spring 2016”
I am presenting my keynote by the title of “Stimulating Innovation from Below. Engage Your Faculty.” today at this conference (I won’t translate it):
Primer Congreso Internacional, “La Universidad Pública del Siglo XXI, formando ciudadanos del mundo”.
Thank you to the organizers for the invitation, it was a splendid three days networking and learning from other educators.
Continue reading “Stimulating Innovation from Below. Engage Your Faculty.”
I am starting the 5th version of this course, for history about the course go see the main site.
This is an open and free course offered in the connected MOOC style, and you should realize this is not a course about “Ken teaching you” and is highly centered on your learning. A glove-tap/hat-tip to Stephen Downes, George Siemens and Dave Cormier and others for their work on the original MOOCS.
A massive thank you to the work of Alan Levine, Brian Lamb, Jim Groom and too many others to list for their inspiration that led to my using this format.
Spot the error in the title slide of the video.
Nota: voy a ofrecer apoyo/asesoría en español/inglés pero la mayoría del contenido está en inglés.
Note: I am going to offer help/meeting support for this course in English and Spanish but the content is all published in English.
Find all of the details about this instance of the course at http://kenscourses.com/OpenFlipFall2015/
Register at: http://kenscourses.com/OpenFlipFall2015/register/
This is fully online and self-paced. Each participant will post a video reflection and blog post each week about the topic of the week. The course pages describe the details of each weekly assignment, this is just a summary below. Full schedule details at http://kenscourses.com/OpenFlipFall2015/schedule/
Submission deadlines (Sunday at midnight except for first one).
The course content is all visible (and available under a CC-BY 4.0 license) at the course homepage of http://kenscourses.com/OpenFlipFall2015/
This course is offered by Ken Bauer on his own platform and not as an official course at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. You will not find it listed on regular registration but must registration directly with the links above. If you complete the course, Ken will write a letter to you and the director of your campus in charge of training to request credit for 40 hours of training.
For more history on the previous versions of this course (4 before this version), see the main page at http://theopenflip.com
Feel free to comment here or contact Ken via Twitter or email (kenbauer at gmail dot com).
My method of planning is very much based off a constant iteration process. I’ve been teaching delivering classes for 20 years now in mostly the same location so I have the luxury of those experiences (and contact with colleagues) to pull from.
So I iterate each semester. I use what worked the past semester and throw out (or re-tool) what did not. Each end of semester whether summer or Christmas is a reflecting time for me.
I often make a large change each year and sometimes even each semester. Last January I switched to full-on flipped master (see post here), and this year I made a massive switch to fully open content in the style of a #connectedCourse (see blog post here).
I am the teacher #facilitatorOfLearningExperiences that I am from working and talking with so many colleagues in my institution as well as the large internet (thank you Twitter). The time I spend on networking with other teachers is more important than time spent looking for yet-another-assignment.
Find people that interest you or that will at least listen and answer your questions on teaching. Don’t be shy, get out there and blog/tweet/network.
Your turn, what is your planning process?
I am a big believer in the Flipped Classroom and the focus on “the best use of classroom time” as Jon Bergmann (and many others) describes it.
For my classes and in particular my style of working with my students I find that the time outside of the classroom is equally important. The issue becomes how to keep connected with each other outside.
I’ve used many tools for this over the past 20 years or so:
I want the ability for my students to express their ideas and calls for help to the entire class (and course since I usually teach multiple groups) as well as the world at large.
We use a hashtag (#TC1014 and #TC1017 for the courses this semester) to communicate about the class. Students often send me direct messages (DMs) as well but I am trying to encourage them to be more open.
I tried this in previous semesters and it did not “stick”. I think the reason is that I offered other options like the course LMS and a Facebook group for each course. Now this is the main option and (some) students are using it.
Here is one example, note the communication using images (screenshots) as well as the time stamps here. I can’t be sure but some other students might have learned from this conversation and I used this example of communication in class time to stress the importance of:
@ken_bauer #TC1017 Hi Ken I have a question. I got these functions. both of them gavethe same result. are Both ok? pic.twitter.com/ELEOjuneFt
— Samir (@SamirGL) March 25, 2015
In the one on right, what happens if n1==n2 ? @SamirGL #TC1017
— Ken Bauer (@ken_bauer) March 25, 2015
@ken_bauer I didn't declare that but when I run the program the result is the same number e.g. N1=4 N2=4. The gcm is 4
— Samir (@SamirGL) March 25, 2015
@SamirGL it seems to me that gcd(8,8) will just return nothing…..
— Ken Bauer (@ken_bauer) March 25, 2015
@ken_bauer https://t.co/zUwL25kgFH here's the code. I dont't know why gave me the same number as GCD :/
— Samir (@SamirGL) March 25, 2015
@SamirGL You function is undefined if n1==n2 (compiler warning tells you). pic.twitter.com/I9tYVrRQ6k
— Ken Bauer (@ken_bauer) March 25, 2015
@ken_bauer I got it, thank you. The problem is that my compiler does not warning me of that. pic.twitter.com/lHAZqNScUR
— Samir (@SamirGL) March 25, 2015
By-the-way, I asked Samir if I could post this conversation.
@SamirGL Can I use our conversation from yesterday in a blog post?
— Ken Bauer (@ken_bauer) March 27, 2015
@ken_bauer of course teacher :)
— Samir (@SamirGL) March 27, 2015
@SamirGL Cool. http://t.co/C4mmzMs2l9
— Ken Bauer (@ken_bauer) March 27, 2015
Your turn now. Is Twitter useful for you with your students or in your professional practice as an educator? Let us know in the comments.
My goal as a facilitator of educational experiences is focused on creating a sharing culture where students not only take responsibility for their own educational pace but also contribute to the learning of their peers. The first half of this session is sharing the technology and techniques I use to foster this environment inside and outside of my classroom.
I view my main task as getting my students excited about learning computing science to increase their chances of a successful student and professional life. I still need to create formative and summative assessments to ensure they are prepared for the courses that follow. I use common tools as well as my own custom testing platform for in my courses. In the second half of this session, I will share those tools and experiences with the audience. The tools I use could be easily adapted to all levels and topics.
Please watch the videos and include in the survey (see below) form your comments or questions about my students’ experiences with a Flipped Mastery classroom.
Please fill out the survey if you plan to attend (or even if you don’t) my session at FlipCon15.
feature image is creative commons licensed (BY-SA) flickr photo by chuckoutrearseats:
I am a transplanted Canadian that has been living and teaching in Zapopan, Jalisco, México for most of the past twenty years at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara.
I have always focused on giving my students broad learning around the content of the course in question as well as pushing them to be active and visible in their academic and social pursuits.
Three years ago I was introduce to Flipped Classroom and jumped on that bandwagon not so much to change my classroom but because I felt that this “way of teaching” validated how I already ran my classrooms. The most important part of Flipped Learning for me is the community of educators that I follow and how we can help each other become better at our craft of guiding our students on their learning journeys.
Lately I’ve been leading colleagues in their discovery of Flipped Learning as one of many tools in their educator toolbox.
I’m currently offering a course on Flipped Learning in a connected courses format. In the past (and future) I gave courses on blogging with WordPress, tools for formative assessment, tools for writing research (LaTeX, bibliography management), software development and collaboration.
This leads me to my finding of the connected courses community. As usual I latched onto the ideas of others since I have no problem standing on the shoulders of giants. So my courses have been moved to a connected course system. I happen to be a practicing systems administrator (LAMP in general) so I let to get “under the hood” and control the environment my way.
I love expanding my circle of friends and colleagues and especially with those working in domains that I don’t encounter everyday. I hope to share my ideas as well as gain from the ideas of others. Currently I am looking to push my research forward in the area of education (I am a Computer Scientist formally) and am struggling at how to get that area of research kicked off.
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