flipping the humanities seminar
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Flipping the classroom vitalizes seatwork time in STEM disciplines. But by that standard, the humanities classroom is already flipped. This slideshare discloses best practices for a humanities-specific "flipped" classroom experience.TRANSCRIPT
Kathi Inman BerensCET Distinguished Fellow
Fellow, Annenberg Innovation Research CouncilIBM Faculty Award Winner
University of Southern California
OPTIMIZING FACE-TO-FACE
The Flipped Humanities Classroom
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Mobile Learning
I shoot video lectures for my OL students. Example: http://bit.ly/1mHCwuM
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STEM Flip <> HUM Flip
In STEM disciplines, “Flipping” means doing “homework” in the classroom & watching vid lectures at home. STEM lectures are fast-paced content delivery & edification of textbook.
In HUM & related disciplines, classroom experience is already “Flipped”: learners actively interpret, debate and make meaning both individually and collaboratively. Lecture is dynamic & responsive. Vid flattens a hum lecture from 3D to 2D.
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HUM: “Flip” Graded Work The Classroom is already “Flipped”
Hum & other interpretive disciplines assess performance individually.
BUT… post-univ work environments are collaborative & virtual.
Broaden assessed work to include collaborative authorship.
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Cathy Davidson:
c20 edu = “Industrial” model
KEYWORDS: Fordism, “Efficiency,” Assembly Line.
Students stand up & move when the bell rings .
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There are 2 pieces to the Flipped Classroom equation. The problem solving during classroom time works
beautifully. But for humanists, the live piece, the lecture piece, is not worked out…. A good lecture meanders.
Jack HalberstamProf. Comp Lit, AMST, Gender
Studies, Queer Theory
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F2F’s Value Prop
“LIVENESS”
Databases can’t reproduce serendipty akin to the canniness of embodied learning environments.
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Myths about “Digital Natives”
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Use mobile to optimize hybrid learning.
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The New Learning Is Ancient
http://kathiiberens.com/teaching/philosophy/
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How To? Start w/ 1 assigment. I created these:
• Design Thinking Lab
• Mobile Role Playing Game via Twitter
• Collaboratively authored G-Doc
• QR-code powered Scavenger Hunt on campus
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Why MOOCs entice/ scare univs
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In the era of MOOCs
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How important is intimacy?
“The professor is in most [MOOCs] out of students’ reach, only slightly more accessible than the pope or Thomas Pynchon. “
--A.J. Jacobs on MOOCS NYT, 20 Apr. 13 Img: Ana Albero, NYT
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SCALE
• Raw materials of digital pedagogy can be shared at massive scale;
• But their application cannot.
• Even in Al Filreis’ Modern Poetry MOOC “there are abundant office hours, discussion leaders, and even a phone number you can call to discuss your interpretations of the week’s poem”
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Some F2F “procedures” are now optional
• Meeting physically in a campus room• Talking using voices• Taking turns• Synchronicity
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F2F, optimize for what a database can’t do
Computation can build working relationships from intimacy sparked F2F.
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is software’s procedural goal.
F2F classrooms should optimize
for …
Permanence
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EPHEMERALITY