This presentation combines the notions of the flipped classroom with the educational use of Twitter to explore ideas of using Twitter to encourage students to learn outside the classroom.

1. www.le.ac.uk
Flipped instruction and Twitter for
independent learning
Terese Bird
t.bird@le.ac.uk
Learning Technologist and SCORE Research Fellow
Institute of Learning Innovation
Queen Elizabeth I College Research Talks 4-6-2014
Photo by vanhookc on Flickr

2. What shall we talk
about?
• The Flipped Classroom
• Examples of successful flips
• Twitter as a catalyst toward independent learning
• Examples of how Twitter might be used for
independent learning which feeds into class work
Photo by Trina Alexander on Flickr

3. The Flipped Classroom
Image by
ransomtech
on Flickr

4. How to flip sensibly
Image by Xristina La on Wikipedia
CC-BY-SA
Class
Home

5. Example of successful flipping: Clintondale
http://www.techsmith.com/customer-stories-clintondale.html

6. Resources for flipping
• Make your own – ScreenR, ScreenOMatic, Quicktime
• Kahn Academy

8. Twitter for independent learning

9. #actandprotest

11. Ideas for Twitter to Flip
• Students follow 10 economics practitioners. For 1
week, watch what these are tweeting, and note 3
trends. Post these trends onto VLE or bring to class.
Map these trends to current events.
• Students find 3 experts on a topic of their choice, to
follow on Twitter. Students may wish to do this using
an impersonal account (?). Students ask the experts
their opinion of the topic, the current event,
whatever it may be. Do these opinions make sense,
change students’ perception of the topic?

12. More resources
• Mrs Caviness: http://novemberlearning.com/educational-resources-
for-educators/teaching-and-learning-articles/how-twitter-can-be-used-as-
a-powerful-educational-tool/
• 50 ways to use Twitter in the classroom:
http://www.teachhub.com/50-ways-use-twitter-classroom
• Kahn Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/

13. What do we think?
• Public/private issues in social media
• Do the benefits outweigh the risks?
• Other issues?