Comments on: Switching it Up http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/09/12/switching-it-up/ Musings about technology and learning... Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:57:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Claire http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/09/12/switching-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1667 Claire Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:36:55 +0000 http://edutrails.edublogs.org/?p=247#comment-1667 I'd like to echo Jeannine's comments. My first response was that many students, especially in the senior grades, already have a lot of homework as well as other commitments. In the previous school where I taught, it was not uncommon for my grade 11 and 12 biology students to have jobs working 20-30 hours per week. Having said that, I think that teachers recording lessons can be very powerful. Sometimes repetition is all a student needs to finally 'get' a concept. Sometimes a student just isn't 'on' when you deliver a lesson--if they can go back to it when they are more receptive--great! And how great would it be if you're prepping for a substitute teacher (who may not be a specialist in your subject area) and you can just ask them to play your lesson?! So yes, record your "lectures", post them for your students as well as anyone else who is interested, but be careful about how much of your students' personal time that you are asking for. I’d like to echo Jeannine’s comments. My first response was that many students, especially in the senior grades, already have a lot of homework as well as other commitments. In the previous school where I taught, it was not uncommon for my grade 11 and 12 biology students to have jobs working 20-30 hours per week.

Having said that, I think that teachers recording lessons can be very powerful. Sometimes repetition is all a student needs to finally ‘get’ a concept. Sometimes a student just isn’t ‘on’ when you deliver a lesson–if they can go back to it when they are more receptive–great! And how great would it be if you’re prepping for a substitute teacher (who may not be a specialist in your subject area) and you can just ask them to play your lesson?!

So yes, record your “lectures”, post them for your students as well as anyone else who is interested, but be careful about how much of your students’ personal time that you are asking for.

]]> By: Jeannine St. Amand http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/09/12/switching-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1666 Jeannine St. Amand Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:34:54 +0000 http://edutrails.edublogs.org/?p=247#comment-1666 Interesting idea for sure Jeff. I think the CBC show you heard was Spark - http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2008/08/the_dog_ate_my_vodcast.html (They cover some great stuff.) While I think the idea of increasing the time for hands on learning and one-to-one instruction is great, I hesitate on shifting the preparation time to "the night before" because I would like to see us reduce the amount kids spend on "homework" rather than increase it. That being said, I see great potential in this for students who choose to review the material from home, or for those who wish to work ahead of the class. Also - we have a lot of students who spend a lot of time sitting on busses - podcasts would be a great way of using that time effectively. Interesting idea for sure Jeff. I think the CBC show you heard was Spark – http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2008/08/the_dog_ate_my_vodcast.html (They cover some great stuff.)

While I think the idea of increasing the time for hands on learning and one-to-one instruction is great, I hesitate on shifting the preparation time to “the night before” because I would like to see us reduce the amount kids spend on “homework” rather than increase it.

That being said, I see great potential in this for students who choose to review the material from home, or for those who wish to work ahead of the class. Also – we have a lot of students who spend a lot of time sitting on busses – podcasts would be a great way of using that time effectively.

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