Into the Driver's Seat

Are you a K-12 teacher, struggling with the flipped classroom concept? Learn how to keep your flip from flopping—or fix it if it already has.

Go beyond “think, pair, share” and clickers in your large classroom. These activities can engage students in higher levels of thinking and analysis.

For parents, students, and administrators to make flipped learning a success, they must understand the best possible outcome and their roles in making it happen.

In this first post, I’ll share some preliminary results about video usage, obtained from initial analyses of a few edX math and science courses. Unsurprisingly, students engaged more with shorter videos. Traditional in-person lectures usually last an hour, but students have much shorter attention spans when watching educational videos online.

One of the biggest questions about the flipped classroom model is how to get students to actually do the pre-class work and come to class prepared.

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"There have been many school reform trends over the past few years: student response systems, video games for math, mobile phones for learning—but none have completely transformed the notion of learning like the flipped classroom. Flipped learning, in essence, turns the idea of traditional classroom instruction on its head by asking students to watch videos of teacher lectures for homework, then apply the lesson with the teacher in the classroom."

Video is a wonderfully visual medium that opens up new opportunities for teaching and learning. Here's how to extend the shelf-life of your course videos.

It takes a little creativity to flip your class, but it doesn’t have to be intimidating. These no-tech strategies get students interacting with the content.

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One way to address this is to apply the flipped philosophy to the online classroom. The flipped classroom model can help us design more interactive and engaging online learning experiences, and online classes can help us expand on what it means to flip. Certainly there is something to learn by combining these two conversations.

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