Overview of the Flipped Classroom
Go to school, listen to your teacher lecture, go home, do your homework.
For centuries, this has been the way that school’s been done.
But now, a new model of teaching is turning the traditional classroom on its head. Under the flipped classroom model, students watch lectures at home, online. Class time is reserved for collaborative activities that help reinforce concepts and increase engagement.
source: The Knewton Blog
Overview:
In this module you will be learning about the concept of the Flipped Classroom concept whereby teachers deliver course content via digital media for homework, allowing time for the teacher to facilitate classroom activities that foster higher level thinking and differentiated instruction during class time.
Objectives:
- Understand the concept of the Flipped Classroom
- Join the Flipped Learning Global Initiative
- Evaluate the Flipped Classroom as a teaching pedagogy
Student Responsibilities: Please review the linked resources below and complete the tasks on Google Classroom.
- Read: Overview--Read This
- View: Overview--View This
Tasks:
- Sign-up to become a member of the Flipped Learning Global Initiative, a worldwide coalition of educators, researchers, technologists, professional development providers and education leaders who are committed to flipped learning. FLGI's mission is to coordinate, orchestrate and scale the key elements required to successfully expand flipped learning internationally. FLGI’s primary focus is building bridges between the silos of robust flipped learning activity occurring worldwide.
Discuss: Complete the following on Google Classroom.
- What did you already know about the assigned readings and videos?
- What information was new or interesting to you?
- What excites you the most about the potential for flipping your instruction? What makes you the most anxious?
- What do you want to know more about?