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Flipped Learning

There are many approaches in classroom. One of the approaches into the classroom is via flipped learning. This pedagogical method has become very popular in the educational circle around the world.  In traditional classroom, a teacher is at the front of a classroom, discussing on the next unit in the textbook. Students are busy on copying notes. But now this model is about to switched or in other words about to flipped. Those new classrooms are called flipped classroom. The flipped classroom is new method of teaching which aims to increase student engagement.

In a flipped classroom, teachers gives short audio videos and notes outside of class time, and students use class time to do work through the different idea by involving in different activities. In flipped classroom , students get information before class start, freeing class time for activities that involve higher order thinking.  In a flipped classroom, the teacher does not give direct instruction. Their role becomes one of a facilitator who sets up the content, homework framework , and provides a space that students can explore in.

Engagement in flipped learning

In flipped classroom model student gets equal learning opportunities, same attention when doing their homework. Yarbro, Arfstrom, McKnight and Mcknight (2014) referred to the Flipped Learning Networks community of practice which showed that there has been a significant increase in the number of members. For example of this increase appears in a simple Google search. According to ,Yarbro, Arfstrom, McKnight and Mcknight (2014) when they carried out a Google search they found that the term “flipped learning” resulted in 244,000 hits in June, 2014. When I put in the term ”flipped learning”, I found 54,300,000 in November, 2022 which is an increase of about 54,000,000 in just under 8 years. In Google scholar, using the same terms they found 314 in June, 2014. I found 63900 hits which is an increase of over 63500 in 8 years. Therefore, there does appear to be an increase in interest in the concept of flipped learning at least.

Why Flipped Learning

Access Content anytime: The content becomes available to students beyond typical classroom time.

• Student come prepared to answer question
• Free up time to work with student individually
• Student are able to view content in video format ( stop, play, pause etc. ) 

How to Flip Class

• Buy in
• Curate Resources
• Classroom Management
• Technology Training
• Assign Content For Work
• Students work problems in class
• Independent Learning

Tools for Flipping

• Video Content
• Devices 
• Links
• Social Media
• Slides and Sites
• Readings

Demerits 

• Not everyone has internet access
• Video is too passive
• What if they don't do their homework

References 

1. Yarbro, J., Arfstrom, K.M., McKnight, K. and McKnight, P., 2014. Extension of a review of flipped learning.
2. Jenny, E., and Aicha R., 2017. A FRAMEWORK FOR FLIPPED LEARNING  
3. Youtube 

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Information Literacy

Information literacy was the term used most frequently in the United States from the late 1980s through most of the 1990s and is still used regularly.¹

With the increasing use of the Internet, it is becoming clear that not only the skills to operate a computer and retrieve information, but also to acquire the information you need from the vast repository of information networks and to use that information for your own benefit or the benefit of the community has become essential. This skill is called information literacy. If we talk about computer literacy today, information literacy is needed today.²

 

Information literacy requires computer literacy as well as the following skills.

Ø  To receive information

Ø  Analyze information

    Ø  To produce information and

Ø  Prepare the information so that it can be used

Information literacy prepares individuals to access, evaluate, and analyze information.³

Components of Information Literacy 4

• Identify :- The information literate student can identify the nature and extent of information needed. For example, writing the thesis document, creating a timeline to complete research paper

• Find:- The information literate student can  find needed information properly. For example,  finding an article from the library database

• Evaluate:- The information literate student can evaluate information and its source critically. For example, summarizing the main idea of an article

• Apply:- The information literate student can apply information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose. For example, using image from a database to prepare power point slide.

• Acknowledge:- The information literate student can acknowledge source of information and the ethical, legal issues surrounding information. For example, citing an information source.    

 

 Computer Literacy

It describes the skills necessary for accessing and using information including the use of the mouse or keyboard, managing files, understanding disk drives, operating system etc. 5

References

1.      1 Craig Gibson, “Information Literacy and IT Fluency: Convergences and Divergences,” Reference &      User Services Quarterly 46, no. 3 (2007): 24.

2.      2 Gorkhapatra daily

3.      Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson, “Reframing Information Literacy as a               Metaliteracy ”(2011) 

4. https: //prezi.com/

5. Computer and information literacy in post-qualifying education