Episode 12: A flipped classroom through digital chalk talks

In this episode, Sally Keith, an ecologist from the Lancaster Environment Centre, talks about how she transformed her delivery of teaching from a traditional, lecture-based approach by flipping her teaching through creating and using digital chalk talks.

Sally also talks about the theories that informed her new approach to teaching. The result: more engaged learning and teaching.Theories that informed digital chalk talk.

Part of the inspiration for this transformation comes from how Khan Academy develops and delivers its teaching.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LsgbuFtMh5qUVdtAuxMN2

Resources/reading

Below is a paper by Sally that provides an in-depth look into the background of flipping and the approaches that she took to inform her practice:

Individual Curriculum Enquiry - Tips to Flip: For the Many, Not the Few by Sally KeithDownload

Some of the theories that informing this approach

• Cognitive theory of multimedia learning

• Cognitive overload

• Cognitive affective theory of learning with media

Practicalities - what was used

• An Apple iPad and Apple Pencil; though a similar graphics tablet could be used

• A smart whiteboard app, in this case, Vittle (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vittle-smart-whiteboard-video/id1231173677) and there are others that can be used:

  • Google Jamboard

  • Microsoft Whiteboard

  • Explain Everything

  • Miro

  • Mural