Flipped Teaching

 Hello everyone,

In this blog post, we will discuss the idea of flipped teaching, along with its main ideas, advantages, and ways it's changing education in the future.

What is flipped teaching?

Flipped teaching is an innovation in education that challenges traditional methods while encouraging a more student-centered approach. In a flipped classroom, students participate in lectures and readings outside of class, often accessing online resources or videos. After that, class time is dedicated to interactive, group projects, conversations, and problem-solving activities that let students put what they've learned into practice. Flipped learning has many benefits, including more individualized learning and higher levels of engagement. However, some drawbacks must be considered, such as differences in technology and the requirement for teachers and students to adjust. This advanced technology teaching method can help minimize the negative aspects and optimize the advantages with a well-planned implementation strategy.

My peer Arda Duraker and I worked collaboratively to explore benefits and learn how to implement flipped teaching in our language classes. We created an instructional vocabulary video about games and hobbies for 5th-grade students. We used Animaker as our tool, and we enhanced our video with visuals and GIFs to demonstrate the meaning of the words that we were going to teach. However, it was challenging to create an animation and design each slide along with our voices in the beginning while using our tool, I realized how much it is enjoyable and nourishing to create a teaching video using technology because Animaker provides nearly infinitive choices and opportunities to materialize your purposes. 

Here is the video we created

Also, we prepared a quiz for our students to exercise;

Corpus-based Teaching Material

 Hey there !, it's been a long time to see you.

Welcome again to my digital diary of exploring technology. Fasten your seatbelts, dear readers, as we set sail into the endless sea of technology. I am excited to share the new adventure with you.

 This week's post is about integrating Corpus-based teaching materials into our classrooms. In this task, I worked with my peer Arda Duraker. We created a worksheet on Canva about health problems and emergencies for our preparatory class students and used SKell to enhance students' knowledge. Working on the worksheet we prepared, Our students will be able to test their former knowledge of the topic and use the corpus to expand their vocabulary. They will learn about diseases, problems, and see how to use collocations about them by integrating technology into their learning process. After this activity we expect our students to be informed about health issues and situations using SKell will foster their understanding of basic health issues, their causes, and symptoms that might they face in their real lives. So that they will be able to express their problems to other people or a doctor and have a sense of how to live a healthy life and give advice about issues by using their problem-solving skills. 

I think using the corpus in this activity will improve students' comprehension and knowledge while helping them to achieve the objectives of the unit. But as a problem might occur, students can get lost while using SKell doing their research and end up finding irrelevant and unnecessary information about the topic but don't worry we are here as teachers to help and guide students. 😊

You can find the worksheet by clicking here.

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