AN ENDURED BURDEN
“Hot topic, hot topic! Come and get your hot topic!”
Hello there, lads! As you’ve seen in the title, my friends (Mert &
Suvda) and I have prepared a sample flipped lesson for 5th graders. But
before I go about explaining what we did, I would like to give you some information
about what the flipped classroom approach is. Now, the flipped classroom
approach is a novel way of turning teaching into an individual practice received
by the students through digitally prepared materials. Some of these materials
could be instructional or practice videos and digital quizzes allowing for
personalization, active learning, engagement, student autonomy, digital fluency,
and improved learning outcomes with their respective components. Such affordances
allow students the opportunity to fully immerse themselves throughout the
learning process and to increase their retention of knowledge. However, there
is the other side of the medallion. Lack of effective self-regulation, non-completion
of assigned work, and technological issues due to economic disparities stand
out as some of the challenges. With proper consideration of both aspects, it
becomes apparent that the approach could partially be implemented in language
teaching in Turkey’s context given that institutions do their best to provision
the appropriate materials and technologies for their students. Having this
knowledge in mind, we managed to complete our assignment on preparing a flipped
lesson for vocabulary teaching to 5th graders. However, recording the
video and finding an appropriate app for preparing one was a burden for us. We
had to check many websites to come up with something, and at last we decided on
Canva. Each of us had their own part for the lesson plan and for the categories
in the video, and Canva allowed us to prepare our material and to record our
lesson with its versatile features. We later used CapCut to combine our recordings
and uploaded them to YouTube.
!AN UPDATE!
After we were done with our assignment, a group of friends provided us with feedback and assessed our work. It turned out that they praised it but also pointed out some aspects for improvement. They suggested that it'd be much better to smooth the transition between narrators to avoid disruption mid-video and deviate students from the course of learning. Additionally, they find the length of the video rather long, as it exceeds the given limitations by our instructor. Though my friends and I found their reflections quite valuable, we decided not to adjust the video, since the provided content was presented at its best and even a slight intervention could cause rearrangement of the flow of the lesson, which could possibly lead to unease by our targeted students.
SO LONG, LADS! 😄
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