A flipped classroom is a new
concept and approach to teaching and learning. In a flipped classroom instead
of the classic instruction in class time and homework to practice while at home
a teacher can decide to flip their classroom to where the students access
instruction and lessons at home and practice their work while in the classroom
with the teacher. When using this technique and style of instruction the
student has more useful time and access to their teachers with videos first
while at home then again in the classroom giving more options with more purpose
learning. I believe this can help students more especially since the number of
students going home and returning with no homework done is increasing.
The digital divide has to do with
the lack of access people have to technology who may not be as privileged as
others and may not have as much access to technology as others. Without access
to technology there may be students who get put behind being unable to do
certain assignments. A big cause of the divide is the big gap with families in
poverty, the middle class and the upper class. Schools are extremely
underfunded giving students even less access to computers, internet, textbooks,
etc. I hope when one day I become a schoolteacher I can help students who don’t
have the privileges of technology and provide as much opportunities for them as
I can.
With the
first PowerPoint assignment it was a more basic linear PowerPoint in the form
of showing information to a class while being ascetically pleasing. This
assignment included aspects that I feel I was familiar with and was able to
incorporate skills I had already known and practiced in the past. Our second
PowerPoint assignment was more advanced requiring a non-linear presentation. I
decided to go with creating a Jeopardy game in PowerPoint, this kind of game
requires many different hyperlinks and settings to be adjusted. I learned the
most with this assignment this past week, I had always wondered how my teachers
made these Jeopardy game and finally I was able to learn. It was actually very
simple and easy to complete, and I am pleased with myself in learning a new
skill.
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