The Flipped Classroom Guide for Teachers. As technology becomes increasingly common in instruction at all levels of education from kindergarten to college, the modern classroom is changing.
The traditional teacher-centered classroom is falling away to give students a student-centered classroom where collaborative learning is stressed. One way educators are effectively utilizing online learning and changing the way they teach is by flipping their classrooms. Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn. Flickr:AllHails At the star-studded Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching (HILT) event earlier this month, where professors gathered to discuss innovative strategies for learning and teaching, Harvard’s professor Eric Mazur gave a talk on the benefits of practicing peer instruction in class, rather than the traditional lecture.
The idea is getting traction. Here’s more about the practice. By Emily Hanford, American RadioWorks It’s a typical scene: a few minutes before 11:00 on a Tuesday morning and about 200 sleepy-looking college students are taking their seats in a large lecture hall – chatting, laughing, calling out to each other across the aisles. The Flipped Classroom: Turning the Traditional Classroom on its Head. Videos: Not the only medium for successful flipped classrooms. I did not attend this year’s FlipCon14 conference, but I did read a wonderful and collaborative recap of the conference from attendees in this google doc.
The event covered a range of interesting topics in education and technology but I especially enjoyed reading the section titled, “Setting the Record Straight,” where educators discussed certain misconceptions around flipped learning. As I was reading the notes I realized my own biases towards flipped learning. When someone talks about flipped learning I immediately think of a teacher taping their lecture or creating a voice-over on a powerpoint or video they created.