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. 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.
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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. 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. Gabriel's Catholic School in Austin, TX has unveiled a technology initiative designed to use iPads and videoconferencing to improve student learning through performance-based outcomes and a comprehensive evaluation of metrics. 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.