Flipped Classroom info. Flipped Classroom info. 21st century teaching. Sweden debuts first classroom-less school. Desks, chalkboards and even classrooms themselves are a thing of the past at Telefonplan in Stockholm, Sweden.
Education scholars have long been experimenting with tactics to facilitate learning in the classroom. Are kids more likely to take in knowledge when at desks arranged in tidy rows? When divided into smaller groups? Perhaps when sitting in a circle on the floor? The Collaborative Learning Network. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning. The European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning – EURODL is an electronic, multi-media journal on distance and e-learning distributed on the Internet.
It publishes the accounts of research, development and teaching for Europe in its most inclusive definition, exploring the potential of electronic publishing. EURODL presents scholarly work and solid information about open, distance and e-learning, education through telematics, multimedia, on-line learning and co-operation. Cottenie lab: collaborative learning: two sides of a coin. Collaboration is on my mind these days.
Ingrid pointed out this article to me, about, among other things, the potential pitfalls of group work. The author, Susan Cain frames this in the presence or importance of introverts, and how negating introverts has a negative effect on the performance of group work. Choice quote from the interview: "Forty years of research shows that brainstorming in groups is a terrible way to produce creative ideas. " (After I blogged this, I found a similar article were Susan Cain explains it in her own words: