ICT-tools in the classroom

Sum up on reflections from group work, Thuesday October 8th 2013.

Peter has great exsperience working with ICT-tools in the classroom. After the summer school in Lithuania, he decided to incooperate more ICT in his classroom. One of the things he did was "flipping" his classroom.
First Peter search on tools to flip the classroom and found a free program for recording the screen, this he started using and uploaded his videos to youtube. The youtube link he then shared on Google+, where every student is a member. In this way the students now always have a how to do video and they can prepare themselves before the lesson or catch up when they are late or sick.
Besides sharing on Google+, Peter also share information on blogger.

Peters exsperience with the "flipped" classroom is that the students love it. They are taken by this new way of learning, and when they have a test, they have used the material several times to prepare themselves.

Ieva and Trine then talked about how to incooperate the "flipped" classroom in primary school and lower secondary, because here not all student have their own computer or tablet and are not so strong in using the tools for acedemic reasons.
We saw a great oppertunity with homework and the "flipped" classroom. If the teacher recorded different tecniques, for example how to solve a mathematical problem or a reading tecnique,the parents and pupils can use it at home when they are struggeling with homework. In this way the pupil only has to relate to the teachers method, which can cause less confusion.

We think this is a good way to help with homework, because a lot of parents have a hard time helping their kids, and some kids doesn't do their homework, because it is too diffucult or they don't remember how the teacher explained the method.

We all agree that the "flipped" classroom is a supplement to the ordinary lessons. It can not be a substitude for the lesson.