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Nicolin Catalina,
RMEPFA, Calea Grivitei 120, sector 1, Bucharest, Romania
catalinanikolin@yahoo.com
Abstract:
The emergence of new devices in education, has created new paradigms for teaching, learning and training. Even if
the Flipped Classroom is not used in Romania, is the time to make a change in the training structures and models, and
promote an innovative frame for training using Flipped Classroom model.
Figure 1 Mediums
The device Tablet or Smartphone is the facilitator of your interactions, it contains all soft and applications you need
to perform from everywhere your role.
Teachers roles in using Tablets in teaching are : Painter, Redactor, Scenarist, Reviser,
Operator,Estetician, Writer ,Technician ,Reporter
Teachers Actions in performing teaching through Tablet, in different structures of courses, and
Flipped Classroom too ::Selects Appropriate apps and texts for use with apps selected, Manages, Transfers,
Evaluates,Facilitates- The transfer of competencies and the easy move of teachers from one level to other,
Fixates, Variates -Apps , mediums, web uses, Creates - All materials created must respect the contents and
needs of students, Reflects, Connects community, Follows progresses, Corrects errors, Exemplifies Show
how to use, Cooperates, Helps technical, Auto-trains Provides training, Mentors Tutors, Mediates,
Innovates
Before you perform teaching with Tablets, you must establish with your students, which apps you
will use in teaching and which apps they will use for learning and do home works. This aspect means some
training hours, for teaching students how to search, to select, to download and to use apps from Google Play.
The Apps Specificities: utile, to create, to communicate, to expose, to entertain, to explain, for telling a story,
for resumed, for structure, for assessing, for training,and.
Before the advent of Tablets in teaching we all had pc or laptop and we usually edit texts and make presentations
with Word and PowerPoint, programs from Microsoft Office. Because every big trademark has realized his own
Tablet, they have specified a personal browser, a personal OS and also a personal Office programs. For Android one
of them is Polaris Office 5. Students and teachers are not skilled to use it, one cause of the tactile screen of the
Tablet and another cause, because has a lot of multiple facilities that must be learned before using it. This means
some hours before using teaching with Tablet, for having skilled students in using Office tools in learning.
On a larger scale is used the concept of the Flipped Classroom. This new concept which is based on individual work,
epistemic curiosity, and the ability to assimilate new knowledge through collective learning hopes to resolve
dropouts and to make learn all students.
From years ago I use Facebook as online learning tool.
My accounts have also contents for study easily in Flipped Classroom
Figure 6 Print screen of a selection about History of French Language resources from Facebook account.
It is very important to have resources accessible, for facilitating the students learning.
But not only the resources are very important, also the tutoring proceedings.
Long time ago, I have published a book about Tutoring on-line.
I have discovered that is very actual also on this time in the process of Flipped Learning.
It is not so important to use only apps in the teaching process.
There are tools of Web 2.0 who could be used in teaching and training with great results. And they could be viewed
also on tablets.
For increasing the attractivity of a course, you can use Facebook or Storify and compose your course
content. Then you can upload it on an Edmodo Classroom as I do myself.
https://storify.com/catalinanicolin/utiles
This link and many other courses about ICT, are all in my online course on Edmodo
Figure 7 Printscreen from the training classroom on Edmodo with ICT contents
(Every student will present his own nuggets from readings and his own interpretation and exemplification
extensions, Short summaries, Extended summaries, Key ideas and links commenting ideas, Questions about
contents, discussion points, ramifications)
At Week 4 trainees work at Didactical applications using Google Classroom app, Edmodo, Storify,
Symbaloo, Mindmap, Padlet , Trello or Prezi every trainee applies things learned on various learning contexts and
contents:introductive lesson, consolidation lesson, reviewing lesson, assessment test lesson, online lesson, flipped
lesson, tutoring lesson, training lesson
Last Week the 5th will be dedicated to the Presential training and will be based on: Trainees questions ,
Trainers comments, common activities and full learning on: contents of teaching subject, methodic of subject
teached, ICT applications in teaching
3. m-Tutoring Activity
The activities of Flipped Teaching consist when learning is online, a tutoring activity realized by the
teacher. Because we had mention the tutors in case of Flipped Training, I specify that the Tutor activity as
example will be based on different aspects in tutoring the trainees on
1. How to read, make notes and enrich the study materials
2. How to make fiches avec notices and ideas about the readed materials
3. How to communicate with your tutor/prof
4. How to make annotations on materials on Android
5. How to realize the materials
6. How to resolve the Web quest
Tutors sites on weebly will contain as a must:
1. A short resume, a photo, all social contacts: Facebook, Twitter, G+( Gmail, Hangouts, Edmodo,Youtube,) etc
2. Tutorials about:
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As a conclusion, the Flipped Learning Model and the Flipping Tutor Activity are the most important facts, and the
keys of a complete training in the Tablet Era. When all apps will be created, we will have the possibility to train
using only apps.