This study sought to determine the extent to which high school students’ attitudes toward mathematics change during the course of their mathematics class delivered via the flipped classroom model. This study examined how the implementation of flipped classroom affects the students’ self-confidence, motivation, enjoyment, and value of Mathematics — the four subscales of students’ attitudes toward Mathematics. Students enrolled in four different Mathematics courses that used the flipped classroom pedagogy at Barstow High School in Barstow, CA were given the Attitude towards Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) before and after the implementation of flipped classroom. In order to determine the effect of flipped classroom model on the students’ attitude towards Mathematics, a t-test on the difference in the students’ average score before and after the implementation of flipped classroom in each of the four subscales of the ATMI were conducted.

Gamify, gamify, gamify! We’ve heard this buzzword a lot lately. How do we use games purposefully in our college classes? Can gamifying be efficient for the quiz creator? Can it facilitate high-quality student engagement?

Quizzes are often silent, linear, and lonely. Students come to college over tested and underprepared to engage in discussion or live problem solving. In my quest to address this, I began giving quizzes as live group activities. Students still study and earn grades for the quiz, and I’ve seen increased engagement with the content. In teams, students become competitive and more motivated to clarify something they don’t understand. Somehow, students perceive higher stakes, and are more motivated to “play.”

I’m a teacher, not a game designer. I began seeking templates for quiz games that would allow me to convey and test my content without sacrificing too much of my teaching time. Enter PPT game show templates. These templates can be found all over the web and mimic popular game shows such as Jeopardy! and Family Feud. They are customizable and have been a big hit with my students. Through them, I’m able to deliver and test the same content, but students exhibit greater engagement and results.

I’ve tried various gamifying technologies, and find the game show PPT templates to be engaging, efficient, and easy to create.

The goal of this workshop is to share with fellow educators tips and tricks for leveraging the best of open culture quiz game templates. Educators will leave the workshop having the skills to implement a game show-facilitated quiz in their class. These interactive PPT/Video/Audio game templates can be used in any content area.

Today’s students expect education on their terms. What are those expectations and how do the educators of today meet those expectations? This presentation will provide a venue of technological tools and associated apps that will appeal to and engage a new generation of adult learners.

Web 4.0 technological tools will be discussed and shared. These should be able to be easily deployed to promote collaboration and engagement, of which an outcome is retention in the online world of education of today and beyond.

If students are “edu-tained”, showing up to class becomes a social event. Join us for an interactive session of ideas and suggestions.