Week 15

The other day I could hear my 12 year old son talking in the other room.  The only thing that made me go see what he was doing was I knew there was no other person in the room with him.  When I came in the room I saw him playing his Nintendo DS.  I asked him who he was talking to.  He immediately got mad and yelled "Mom you ruined my tutorial!"  I asked him what he was doing, he said he was making a video on his ipad for his friends on how to capture a special character in his Pokemon game.  I apologized and left the room.  It was then that I realized that he was actually making a flipped video for his friends. 15 weeks ago I would not have been able to tell you what a flipped video was or why teachers or anybody would use them.  I don't think I have ever talked to my sons about making flipped videos, or about how they are used.  I thought it was just ironic that he actually was creating one.  Ironic that I have been learning about how to make one and how they are used in school and that he just knows how to create one and he was doing it to help his friends to get better at a video game.  This showed me that children are using this technology and it is second nature for them to learn from a video.  I think about him learning a new dance or how to do almost anything by watching a flipped video.  I guess the old proverb is correct.  It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

Here is about a minute clip from his tutorial on how to catch a legendary Pokemon.

I hope this clip works, I trip to capture a portion of the 15 minute video then email to myself and then upload it to blogger.  I am still learning how to use technology.