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The flip: Classwork at home, homework in class. Today, the 48-year-old helps teachers around the world “flip” their classrooms. Last week, he was at Harvard Law School talking about the virtues of flipping. A book he and Sams wrote, “Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day,” is coming out in June, and Bergmann is planning the fifth annual conference on Flipped Learning this summer. He and Sams also are launching a nonprofit organization to train teachers in the concept.

He is now the lead technology facilitator for the Joseph Sears School in Kenilworth, Ill. Here are excerpts of conversations I had with Bergmann on the phone and by e-mail: Q. In the simplest form, basically, it’s this: What’s normally done in class, the direct instruction piece, the lecture, is done now at home with videos. So it’s homework in school and lesson at home? When you are stuck in the old model, kids would go home and do one of three things. Tell me about the videos.

The access issue is big. So what was the next iteration? Students Enthusiastic About ‘Flipped Classroom’ Students at Hilliard Darby High School are experiencing what some refer to as a ‘flipped classroom’. Instead of listening to the teacher lecture on a subject at school and doing homework at home, now students watch the lecture at home, being able to pause and rewind the presentation to increase comprehension or note down question. Project work and problems that might traditionally be assigned as homework is now tackled during the classroom where the teacher is available to help.

“It was something I’ve never done before, and I was nervous to learn at home,” said Jessica Hutchinson, 16, a student in Tsai’s class at Hilliard Darby High School. “But I liked it. While some teachers videotape their lessons themselves, others direct students to the Kahn Academy which provides more than 3,000 free tutorials in math and science. Professors put lectures online, use class for activities. David Marcey decided to mix things up in his biology classes last fall.

The professor at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks decided he wouldn't lecture in class anymore. Instead, he put his lectures on YouTube so students could listen to them whenever they liked. Then, instead of listening to lectures, his students worked on activities in class, usually in groups. One time, for example, they built a model of a molecule.

Marcey's theory: Students will learn more if they're actively involved in what they're learning. "I wanted to experiment with using technology to engage students so more of them learn the material expected in a rigorous science class," he said. When Marcey came up with the idea, he thought it was new. Flipping the classroom takes a variety of forms, but students generally take more responsibility for what they learn. Priscilla Clough, 26, put off taking a biochemistry class at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo because she knew it was flipped. eSchool News TV. K-12 Digital World Language Courses Immerse Students in Language & Culture Middlebury Interactive’s digital world language courses—from kindergarten through high school and Advanced Placement—utilize principles of the immersion pedagogy and teaching methodology of Middlebury College’s famed Language Schools.

Courses… TechSmith in Education See how instructors across the country use TechSmith solutions to enhance learning. Evergreen Schools Case Study: How Online Learning Serves a Diverse Student Population Evergreen Public Schools in Vancouver, WA, serves more than 26,000 students and is one of the fastest-growing school districts in the state. Deliver the Bilingual Advantage Preparing today’s students with 21st Century skills increasingly includes language. TabPilot Android Tablet Management for Schools TabPilot is a cloud-based management system that puts teachers in control of classroom tablets. Teachers get more teaching time Teachers waste less time waiting Kids stay learning longer. Flipped Classrooms in Michigan aid student learning. Technology enables schools to rethink the way that they deliver instruction to students, and a recent phenomenon that’s catching on is called “flipping the classroom.” It works by having students receive direct instruction — often via online videos — outside of the classroom, enabling teachers to devote more time to collaboration, project-based learning, developing critical thinking skills and mentoring students individually.

Clintondale High School in Metropolitan Detroit has flipped all of its classrooms, and may be the first school in Michigan to do so. Based on just their short experience with this model, it appears to be a remarkable success. According to Principal Greg Green, since exclusively using the flipped classroom, the school has dropped their failure rates for freshmen in English from 52 percent to 19 percent, in math from 44 percent to 13 percent, in science from 41 percent to 19 percent and in social studies from 28 percent to 9 percent. St. Gabriel's Launches 1:1 iPad Initiative To Flip Classrooms. Tablets | News St. Gabriel's Launches 1:1 iPad Initiative To Flip Classrooms By Mike Hohenbrink04/03/12 St. The school, which serves students in grades preK-8, will provide each class through grade 3 with classroom iPads and provide individual iPads to all students in grades 4 and 5, and all classrooms will be connected via videoconferencing to museums, laboratories, and other learning environments.

The new technology will be integrated into the curriculum and students will be able to use the iPads to access their schoolwork remotely. The school is also making iPads available to St. The school has also announced that it will make available the findings it gathers from student metrics as the program is implemented. "Our mission is to raise our children to be world-ready leaders," said Head of School Steve Balak.

The initiative builds on an existing commitment to technology at St. More information is available at sgs-austin.org. Flipped learning: A response to five common criticisms. One of the reasons this debate exists is because there is no true definition of what “flipped learning” is. Over the past few years, the Flipped Learning method has created quite a stir. Some argue that this teaching method will completely transform education, while others say it is simply an opportunity for boring lectures to be viewed in new locations. While the debate goes on, the concept of Flipped Learning is not entirely new.

Dr. Eric Mazur of Harvard University has been researching this type of learning since the early ’90s, and other educators have been applying pieces of the Flipped Learning method for even longer. It’s our opinion that one of the reasons this debate exists is because there is no true definition of what Flipped Learning is. Dr.