Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams
Remixing Chemistry Class
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Two Colorado Teachers Make Vodcasts of Their Lectures
to Free Up Class Time for Hands-on Activities
As educators, we continually for struggling students to review a lesson,
strive to improve the quality and for us instructors to have high-quality
of time spent in class with our lessons available in our absence. Now
students. Aschemistryteachers, we podcastinghashelped usrecon gure our
know that lectures are necessary to chemistry courses so that students still
convey content, but experiential learn- receive direct instruction, but class time
ing is more e ective at constructing is not used to deliver it. Instead, class
and solidifying knowledge. time is now reserved exclusively
Podcasting and vodcasting our les- for lab activities, demonstra-
sons at rst proved to be an e ective tions, one-to-one assistance,
way for absent students to catch up, and small group tutoring.
