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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Education Ride 365: The Spotlight Can Create Harsh Shadows And Illuminate Imperfections Fascinating. Controversial. Thought-provoking. A district in north Texas is allowing students to use their cell phones to record lessons in class. The video story embedded below explains. The print story can be accessed here. Clearly this practice can improve student performance. One could argue that recording all lessons---or at least crucial parts of lessons---and posting them on teacher websites for later review---or viewing by students who missed class---would be a sound practice towards improving student performance. It is easy enough to do. In fact, a teacher or school produced video may be preferable to a classroom full of smartphones recording at once. Having said that, it is predictable that there would be significant opposition to this practice. It reminds me of when I would start a hypothetical conversation with a group of teachers about the idea of having model classrooms on campus designed with one-way glass and a viewing area for observers behind the glass. Other teachers, administrators, and even (possibly) family members could observe class without students knowing they were doing so. For one, imagine the deterrence factor to poor student behavior if they never knew who was watching from behind the glass. When I threw this idea out there to start a discussion, it was very common that excellent teachers loved the idea, mediocre teachers were quite lukewarm about it, and the least effective teachers thought it was a terrible idea! Of course, there were exceptions. The idea of lessons being video recorded on student smart phones---like this district is now allowing---is not much different in regard to the implications for teachers. It is interesting to listen to the teacher association's basis for opposing the practice as presented in the story below. Does anyone on Earth really believe their stated reasons here for why they oppose this practice? Posted at 9:37 PM Keywords: Education Ride 365 , EdClick , Cycle Of Education , Technology , Instruction 2 Comments |
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Harry said... A related emerging practice is to use video to reverse the roles of classwork and homework. (Sorry, I don't remember the name of it.) Teachers record videos of their lectures and assign viewing them as homework. Then class time is spent in applying the lesson, working through problems, clarifying and so on. It also provides the benefit that class time can be spent in students helping students, which is beneficial for both the helper and helpee. Wednesday, April 18, 2012 2:06 PM |
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Kathie said... Flipped classroom might the name of the concept you're thinking of... Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:05 AM |