2F. Instructional Design

​With the shift towards the knowledge society, the change of working conditions, and the high-speed evolution of information and communication technologies, peoples' knowledge and skills need continuous updating.
Learning based on collaborative working, creativity, multidisciplinary, adaptiveness, intercultural communication, and problem solving has taken on an important role in everyday life.
Integrating education technology into our classroom is an easy and productive way to differentiate instruction, increase student engagement and motivation, improve outcomes, and add some variety and interactivity to your lessons. I introduce you Flipgrid as one of the best tools that enhances student’s classroom experience and encourages work ownership and social interaction.
Flipgrid
Flipgrid’s platform allows teachers to encourage student reflection, collaboration, communication, creation, and critical thinking through their easily accessible platform - which is now FREE for EVERYONE! Teachers can use Flipgrid in a number of ways in their classroom to get a clearer picture of what students know and where they need help. Teachers create a grid in Flipgrid and then post topics for their students to respond to using video. Teachers can determine the length of the student submitted videos and can allow students to comment and react to their classmates’ videos, and can even share grids/topics/student videos through email, link, and QR Code!
After discovering Flipgrid as high school math teacher I immediately asked the question, “How I could use Flipgrid in my math classroom?”
 
Here is a few ideas I brainstormed to use Flipgrid with math that can help us get started.  

1. Weekly Math Problem. This could be done as a review or about the current topic. For me, I’ll be teaching Algebra 1 and Quantitative reasoning, so it can be e a great way for my students to interact with each other.
2. Find the mistake. Post a video or picture of a math problem that was worked out incorrectly and has the wrong answer. Students must then find the error and explain in their response how to solve it correctly.
3. Would you rather…? Have seen www.wouldyourathermath.com? It’s a website put together by Classroom Chef co-author John Stevens. On the site are tons of scenarios posted that challenge the students to think, solve some math, choose a path and justify their reasoning. The best part is that new ones are continuously added and you can search them by categories!
4. Student created math tutorials. I can see this happening two ways. The first option is to have students add math tutorial responses on a predetermined math skill. Then share the filled Flipgrid Topic as a resource for others to use. The second option is like a “math help hotline”. Provide a topic where students can post questions or calls for help. Other students can respond with a short how-to tutorial. For either one these options, a screencasting app could be used to create the video and then just upload those videos to Flipgrid.
5. Student – Created Assessment. Have your students create questions for their classmates to answer. With Flipgrid’s response feature, you can view responses before posting them so you don’t have to worry about other students “copying” a response. And you can directly address any issues through comments to students.
6. AppSmash. Appsmashing is the process of combining two or more apps, and Flipgrid makes appsmashing easy! Students can record a video in Snapchat, Instagram, Adobe Spark, Chatterpix or any other platform and then upload the video to your class Flipgrid.  Be prepared for some of the most creative responses you’ll ever see!

 
These are just some possible ways I’ve brainstormed to use Flipgrid to enhance the mathematical discussion and learning in my classroom.

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