Please read the blog post "There Is No Such Thing as THE Flipped Class"
The post is somewhat long, so do your best to scan the entire thing.
With your group, discuss the reading. Summarize the author's main points, and consider the following questions:
- What are some of your assumptions about what the "flipped classroom" is? What are its key components, what does it look like?
- How would you describe what happens in a "flipped classroom" to a colleague?
- "[U]sing screencasting technology is not a one-size-fits-all methodology to be rolled out on a large scale because it would be foolish to use this tool when it is not appropriate to do so; it is [a] tool in the toolbox of education that prevents a teacher from wasting class time lecturing... and spends class time meeting the individual needs of students."
- When and/or why is screencasting appropriate? What kinds of course material could be adequately presented using screencasting?
- When and/or why is screencasting inappropriate? What kinds of course material do you think students need to get from an instructor in class or another form a of instruction?
- "The Flipped Class is not a methodology, it is ideology." What does it mean for the flipped classroom to be an ideology? What do you think is the ideology of the flipped classroom?
Record notes from your discussion in the Google Doc. Your notes will be stored on this workshop website for future reference.