Things I did not know I missed: #3/100 ***A Flipped Classroom*** First class at my new educational institution. And it flipped. Way more fun than my usual here-are-some-slides-that-we-will-read-together lecture. Ive always admired people who write on a blackboard. It slows the lectures pace and gives students time to reflect on what is being said. But, my handwriting is so atrocious that I only resort to it to obscure a topic. Students spend more time figuring out what my hieroglyphs spell than worrying about their meaning. By the time theyre done parsing, I am erasing. My closest thing to writing on a blackboard is live coding: start with a script and go through a series of little coding vignettes. Works nicely. Students like to see me make mistakes. For this class, as usual in a flipped classroom, the students had read the material and done homework in preparation. In class, we did some Q&A and some live coding. I used a technique from Greg Wilsons OOPSLA keynote: a shared GoogleDoc where students could write questions during the lecture, push code fragments and edit each others answers. We would display it on the screen from time to time and discuss its contents. That worked very nicely. All in all an enjoyable first lecture.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 02:38:00 +0000
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