WBU
As long as I understand the definition of “flip” teaching. Group work with peers is needed. Video’s PPT great because I can stop/practice/take notes – review – go back, etc. Class room component also needed to clarify, ask questions, get feedback from instructor and peers. Peer groups very important to me.
I feel traditional and flip teaching go hand in hand.
Teaching both ways at the same time will help the students prepare for traditional teaching and will be more class participation, because everyone is familiar with assignment and subjects.
I would strongly prefer the traditional way of teaching over the flip-method. I was very dissatisfied with the amount of flip-method teaching that was involved in this course and felt that it was much more confusing.
CTC
I have spent the entirety of the class trying to catch up. The flip teaching has been better since there is exposure to the material before the class. I wish that I would have had a video and a powerpoint before the 1st class. It would have made a huge difference to have had at least a partial understanding. I think that flip teaching is a great idea. It should start at the very beginning of the course.
A combination of the 2 methods works.
While we have seen the Powerpoints, I’m not sure if we did a flip teaching class. Maybe the class transition from traditional to flip was smooth and, therefore indistinct.
Pros to Flip: Simple, straightforward, in consumable chunks
Cons to Flip: Math is a hands-on subject. The Powerpoint does not include hands-on, so watching it prior to class didn’t help much. If incorporated with practice, may be better.
I enjoy the traditional method. I feel like I learn the material rather than guessing with the flip teaching. The flip teaching would be great for online students, but I prefer the traditional style.
I didn’t learn anything on the flip teaching. Sorry.
Interviews
Person #1
Q What was the most helpful thing about the online usage of the YouTube and the KhanAcademythat we did in the last 2 weeks with radicals.
A: I think the most helpful thing was the fact that II could pause and I could see how the problem was worked out. It was at my own pace. So, if I was falling behind, I could just kind of rewind and go back until I understood.
Q: What was the least helpful? What was not good about it?
A: I don’t think there was anything that was the least helpful, honestly. They all looked pretty good.
Q: Feel free to be critical. How did the classroom activities help or not help.
A: It helped me because there’s always something that I’m not seeing and that somebody else might see that I’m not seeing. So, we kind of put our problems together and figure it out.
Q: Did you feel it was helpful for learning?
A: Yes it was. The group learning? It worked, definitely.
Q: I just want a quick comment from you on the two types of teaching styles. Today was more traditional and the other two classes, it was different, and before that, it was more traditional. What are your thoughts? How do you compare?
A: For me personally, I like the traditional style of teaching, because I feel it’s more natural with the teacher. If I have questions, I can ask. But with the YouTube and the KhanAcademy, I kind of have to figure it out for myself until we met up in class and did the group work.
Q: And was the group work – today we didn’t do any group work – how did that compare in the class – doing the group work or not doing the group work?
A: I think it helped a lot.
Q: Which way?
A: Doing the group work. Like I said, if I’m not seeing something, somebody else could be seeing it and we kind of figure it out together.
Q: OK, thank you, Person #1. This was helpful.
Person #2
Q: I want to ask, with YouTube and Khanacademy, and the whole approach we did those two classes, what did you find was most helpful?
A: Most helpful was being able to go back and actually look at the steps that you might not be getting and kind of go at your own pace and make your adjustments from there to get to the right point to what the end result is.
Q: OK! And what did you find was not helpful, if anything? What was least helpful?
A: Just the variety. It was very limited on the problems Sometimes you want to do a couple of more, but, other than that, it just gives you a pace. You can’t go back and forth.
Q: Now we’re not talking about MathLab; we’re talking about the KhanAcademy stuff. Do you want to go back on those questions and make sure we’re . . We’re not taking about the MathLab; we’re talking about the YouTube and the . .
A: The YouTubes were more helpful than MathLab at the pace you went at. The Khanacademy didn’t really touch on that; but with the YouTube videos that you did do, those did actually help me out with the radicals and how you’re explaining the situation and how to get to the end result, you know, of the problems and the grasp of it.
Q: OK. How did the classroom activities help with teaming up and doing problems?
A: It helped out. You could use a neighbor, share answers on what he got and what you got, see if it was the same thing. Or if he got something different and you got something different, you go back and double-check each other on where one of you might have made a mistake or where you made a mistake and, you know, get to the right answer.
Q: OK. The two styles of learning and teaching. The traditional, I did traditional here today. Those were non-traditional, the last two classes, and there were traditional before that. What were your thoughts on these?
A: A good combination of the two. It gives a little change of pace and it doesn’t get very redundant. Sometimes you just have teachers up there doing it; sometimes students zone out. But this will get a little classroom interaction and helps you out. It’s a good balance of the two. Sometimes you have to go back the other way just to get that structure and get the point out and then you could practice the other way. So, it’s a good combination of the two.
Q: OK, thank you.
Person #3
Q: And my question for you is, please let me know what you thought was most helpful about the YouTube and the KhanAcademy stuff?
A: YouTube was how you explained step by step how to solve any problems and the part I like about that is you do it at your own pace, because it’s like wherever you miss something or you misunderstood anything, then you can go back and then keep plugging, instead of worrying about sitting in the class and worrying about the time limit.
Q: OK, and what did you find was not so helpful?
A: The variation, it was kind of limited. You could only study so much, compared to like if you’re looking at a book or the MathLab you have a wide variety of samples of questions.
Q: How did you find the classroom activities? Were they helpful or not helpful?
A: They’re very helpful because you know, everybody has a different experience or technique on how they solve their problems and, you know, when you’re working with somebody else, you can kind of see how they’re working on their problems and what kind of techniques they use.
Q: How would you compare the two styles of learning – the flip teaching that we did where I put stuff out and you looked at it and then came in and we did stuff in class, versus the traditional, which, like today was an example of the traditional?
A: I think I would go with – it’s kind of both. I like traditional because you see it’s step by step what’s going on, but I think the downside is you go too fast and then you fall behind. And that’s from my heart.
Person #4
Q: What I’m asking is what did you find with the YouTube and the KhanAcademy? What did you find was most helpful?
A: With KhanAcademy, they have a structured layout for what it takes for you to get to understand a certain topic, so the different pieces that lays it out – that’s very nice. With YouTube, you can replay it.
A: What did you find was least helpful for those?
A: I think personal interactions, explanations are fairly helpful. I like math, first of all, and so, just a little less impersonal, that’s the only thing.
Q: How did you find the classroom activities helped or didn’t help?
A: I think teamwork is pretty good, because we can help each other out and relate it. I think teamwork is good; however, it just depends on the interaction of the team
Q: OK, and just a quick comparison of the two styles of teaching – the regular traditional one and the flip teaching that we did for those two classes
A: With traditional teaching, when you introduce new things, you can explain it. With the flip teaching, you see the topic beforehand, and so whether or not you really understand it, when you get in the class, it’s almost forgotten as far as what the flip teaching. But what I did like about the flip teaching is it’s in chunks, nice little chunks that you can review with post-class. So after having done the traditional and then going back to some of the flip powerpoints and videos, it was nice to do a review.
Q: Thank you very much.