So this happened today...

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Are you currently in education??

Yeah, I'm currently doing my PGCE and on placement in the Computing dept. at Blackpool and the Fylde College where I did my degree. My dissertation was 'teaching conditional statements through an interactive application within a flipped classroom' and was one of the reasons Lancaster sought me out for thier PhD programme

 

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Nice - is this self-funded?

Studentship

What's a flipped classroom?

In 2007 two high school chemistry teachers, Bergmann and Sams (2001), pioneered the flipped classroom whereby recorded lectures were made available to students in order that they could prepare or catch-up in the event of a missed class. Further research has since identified that a flipped classroom enables students to develop lower order cognitive skills e.g. remembering and understanding; these are the two lowest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains (Forehand, 2005). In class activities subsequently concentrate, through active learning (Prince, 2004), on Bloom’s higher order cognitive skills e.g. analysing, evaluating and creating. This contrast, where initial knowledge is traditionally imparted via lectures versus learning independently of the classroom, is the basis of the flipped classroom paradigm (Brame, 2013); however, recent studies have concentrated on defining the effectiveness of video tutorials only (Roach, 2014; Jones, 2014), rather than exploring the opportunities a broader range of technology offers to a flipped classroom.

Yeah, I lifted that straight from my dissertation

congrats

Thanks dowie

though, will you pay back your student loan after this?

Considering my age and the roles I'm looking at post Doctoral then it's not looking good

 

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I was going to reply but it's all rather futile.

Well done on turning a nice thread into another bash.

 

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Dowie - I accept all your points, they are well made and well argued.

After the being held back, abused and suppressed at work in my 20's and 30's, maybe I do have a tendency to exaggerate things now I've broken free of that environment. I'll take your points on board from now on.

 

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Exaggerate bro. Sing it from the mountain tops, and no, I'm not being sarcastic. If blabbering your mouth off to people who are of zero consequence to your career helps you to big yourself up and gain confidence to reach your goals, then go nuts.

In dutch there's an expression which I love, sadly it doesn't translate to English very well, so here it is in Dutch:

Geen oude koeien uit de sloot halen

Maybe Dowie and Moses can find a decent English expression for it, I certainly don't know of any.

I appreciate the sentiments dude

I think the dutch thing means 'Let bygones, be bygones'.