Teaching a blended Chemistry course

Teaching a blended Chemistry course

by Luis Bello

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​Northeast Campus

​Brief Summary

​Blended teaching/learning is an approach to education that combines online educational materials and opportunities for interaction online with traditional place-based classroom methods.

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It requires the physical presence of both teacher and student, with some elements of student control over time, place, path, or pace.

​​Teaching blended  Chemistry courses

​Teaching blended  Chemistry courses is one of the challenging tasks presented to me when the college decided to close due to the pandemic.

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Some of the experiences have been satisfactory and others have allowed me to improve as the courses have been developed.

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Some of the tools used for the teaching of Chemistry in the subject Principles of Chemistry are explained.

​Quizziz

​1- For the conferences, the Quizziz application was used, which allows making presentations and at the same time inserting feedback questions to guarantee the active participation of students, this application also allows inserting web pages, images, and videos.

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​​Screencastify

​Screencastify was the tool used to create videos that were later published on a YouTube channel, this tool has recently included the possibility of including questions within the video that help interactivity.

Screencastify | Simple Video Creation Software

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​Online Labs

​ For the laboratories, some practices that are currently available for free on the Internet were used, such as the Titration and Synthesis of Aspirin, another option was to assign laboratories to do at home, such as the determination of the pH of different products that are in the houses such as detergents, vinegar, coffee, you using the red cabbage for this.

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​Edpuzzle

​In replacement of the face-to-face laboratories, the Edpuzzle tool has helped me to create practical experiences that are very useful for student learning, it shows real videos, where the student has to answer questions as the course progresses. experimental activity.

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​​Possible application of the experience to other disciplines:

The use of these tools can be an easy introduction to any other science class, since the use of online presentations, the videos with questions, and their qualifications, are not only applicable to the science area.

​​Reflection:

Undoubtedly, blended teaching and learning are one of the trends that have been gaining popularity in recent years, one of the reasons that have stimulated it is the use of technologies and the massive access that has been achieved in recent years. Sometimes, the recent virus pandemic has given a boost to the use of this form of teaching and I believe that it has come to stay as one more option in the teaching-learning process since it allows greater access to the courses that are taught by educational institutions.