Flip+the+Lang+Classroom

//Flipped? Gaming? PBL? A Journey in creating an ‘engaging’ learning task.//

//I’ve read a lot about gaming, PBL and flipped classrooms over the course of this year and tried to use elements of these in my language classroom. Term 4 2011 saw the chance to create (for Year 7) an experience of language learning far distant from what we may have done in high school.//

//In Term 4 our language students will have made their choices for Year 8 language but will still remain in the classes they are in now. This means that they need a Unit of Work that will enable them to work independently; the teacher in the classroom may not necessarily speak the language they are learning. So, the chance to go out on a limb, take some risks and build their language learning into a ‘transmedia adventure’ presented itself.//

//The aim of the session is to share the journey so far, explain how it all works and where it may lead. It is then to open it up for discussion, share experiences and ideas for how we can effectively use these sorts of tasks for learning.//