Since last week's post about flipped classroom, I've been doing more reading/watching on the subject, and come up with a few other exciting tidbits I'd like to share.
Here's a great article on overcoming beginner hurdles to flipped classroom. It tackles a lot of the doubts I've heard from people who are new to this topic, such as: What if kids don't have a computer? What if kids come to school without having watched the videos? How do I get started making videos? This is a wide-spread enough practice now that the community of educators out there have come up with great answers to these questions.
People are flipping classrooms at every level, often in ways I didn't expect to see. I encountered an article on flipping in a third grade class, and another about using these techniques at a university level. Here's someone explaining flipping for a phys ed class!
In addition to these innovating applications of the method, there are some great community resources out there that educators are often building themselves as they embrace this movement. Two particularly interesting ones are a tool to add interactivity to YouTube videos and HippoCampus, a growing body of freely available educational videos perfect for the classroom flipping set.
Lastly, I want to share this quote from an article on a school district that engaged in a district-wide policy of flipping every classroom:
Here's a great article on overcoming beginner hurdles to flipped classroom. It tackles a lot of the doubts I've heard from people who are new to this topic, such as: What if kids don't have a computer? What if kids come to school without having watched the videos? How do I get started making videos? This is a wide-spread enough practice now that the community of educators out there have come up with great answers to these questions.
People are flipping classrooms at every level, often in ways I didn't expect to see. I encountered an article on flipping in a third grade class, and another about using these techniques at a university level. Here's someone explaining flipping for a phys ed class!
In addition to these innovating applications of the method, there are some great community resources out there that educators are often building themselves as they embrace this movement. Two particularly interesting ones are a tool to add interactivity to YouTube videos and HippoCampus, a growing body of freely available educational videos perfect for the classroom flipping set.
Lastly, I want to share this quote from an article on a school district that engaged in a district-wide policy of flipping every classroom:
The next year, Green flipped every class at Clintondale, making it the first school in the nation to do so. Since then, the school has seen an increase in attendance, college acceptance and a fairly significant reduction in failure rates — from 35 percent to 10 percent in just two years.
I know that it's impossible to take such a program as indicative of the overall promise of a relatively new educational idea like this one, but it makes me happy nonetheless to at least have some signs that flipped classroom could really make a difference in students' lives.