FlipCon13

Students different ways of learning is a great challenge for teachers in our schools. Students enter the school system with very differing abilities, prerequisites and experiences. The last couple of years the results I Sweden concerning language acquisition at large and, more specifically, literacy has decreased. The use of ICT in society is increasing rapidly. Schools are having difficulties coping with this challenge. It is of great importance that the schools meet its students on their arena, i e use the new technology as possible ways to enhance and redefine learning in comparison to more traditional teaching methods.
In Sweden, flipped learning is still a fairly new phenomenon. In the municipality of Halmstad there are a few teachers that have seen the advantages of the Flipped Classroom. We would like to share how flipped learning could be an answer to reaching our diverse group of students.

In order to facilitate the teaching of speaking and listening skills, teachers need to continually find engaging and interactive methods to trigger students’ interest and motivation. Through the use of videos, teachers are able to integrate and customize their tasks based on students’ needs and learning styles.

Video based instruction, hosted on Wordpress, allows classrooms to go organic and ‘live’ with a click of a button. After input from the blog videos, students are assigned to create their own digital stories based on communication themes introduced to them. These in return are shared by them on a common blog platform as contributors to a wider range of audience.