Leading a Digital School Conference

Flipped classrooms? Blended learning? What are we to make of this trend in education and how should it inform our practice into the future? Based on five years of recording and publishing live teaching on a Youtube channel that’s attracted over 130,000 subscribers, this session will explore these questions and provide a window into technology innovation in practice. This session will tell the story of how Wootube came about, showcase the successful elements of using a variant of the flipped classroom model, provide a critique of its shortcomings and talk about ways that it can develop further in the future. Topics that will be discussed include using videos for observation and professional development, student created videos as assessment for learning, global “crowdteaching”, and practical issues related to filming and production.