Karl Fisch a 20-year veteran teacher at Arapahoe High School in Colorado, and co-creator of one of the most viral videos on the web Shift Happens (Did You Know) has "flipped" the way he teaches math. Traditional teaching involves presenting lessons during the school day and sending students home to work on problems. Karl instead is videoing his lessons and uploading them to Youtube for students to watch at home. He uses class time the following day to answer questions and help students work on problems together.
Daniel Pink, in an interview with Fisch quotes him, “When you do a standard lecture in class, and then the students go home to do the problems, some of them are lost. They spend a whole lot of time being frustrated and, even worse, doing it wrong.”
And while most of us have expanded our ministry tool box to include other strategies, processes and delivery systems other than a “talk”, there are millions of youth every week sitting on terazzo tiled floors listening to "talks" they could watch online.
A few questions:
- How much of our face time with the busiest generation in the history of civilization are we spending giving talks?
- What can you offer young people face to face that they cannot get through and online medium?
- How might we use technology to better leverage the time we spend face to face with young people?
- What are the things that take up time in your classes, meetings, etc. that can be replicated online?
- How might parent outreach be more effective using webinars in lieu of having them find babysitters and handle the evening routines in order to attend another meeting?
This doesn’t have to replace face time with our families, staffs, volunteers, teens—but it should be another “tool” in our box to share the gospel with youth and their families.
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