Emma and Tom return to their roots with a podcast episode featuring just the two of them - it's been a while! Tom's also relieved to be back in the land of the living after recording the last three episodes back-to-back while suffering from terrible man-flu. With a two-weekly release cycle, that's over a month he's been missing in action on the podcast, occasionally croaking an intervention and then subsiding behind the controls and quaffing Lemsip... now he's sounding much perkier and ready to make a proper contribution!
Episode 15 is another episode discussing a learning strategy that we can all try out from time to time: the flipped classroom. Emma and Tom discuss how they used it to reduce the amount of 'death by powerpoint' in their very limited teaching time with the PGCE students, how to get round concerns about technical knowhow and planning workload, and what they've found in the literature about the strategy.
Tom's wellbeing tip turns into a fairly epic story, but with a useful message for us all about seeking out the people we think are better than us. Emma shouts out to the students who joined us to record episode 16 (definitely tune in for that one in a fortnight!) and also points out that most of us were never taught how to take notes in classes. Of course, she's found a handy idea to give us a much-needed system for capturing all that vital information from our teachers.
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Join us next time when we squeeze four students into Emma's cosy office to discuss the Minister for Education's vision for the future of education here in Wales.
The article about PowerPoint in the Guardian that Tom mentioned is here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/powerpoint-thought-students-bullet-points-information
The article about the teacher who gave up flipped learning is here: https://plpnetwork.com/2012/10/08/flip-love-affair/
The pupil who thinks flipped learning is just teachers slacking off is here: https://www.thewrangleronline.com/13877/opinion/the-flipped-classroom-doesnt-work/
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Recorded in studio B1.12 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 11th March 2019