What Is a Flipped Classroom?

BBS Professional Development Day7 October 2012

Kathleen McKim, HS Media Specialist

In this session, we will

• Define "the flipped classroom."• Explore how this concept changes the

instructional landscape.• Reflect on ways that "flipping" can enable

student success.

Some Definitions

• The flipped classroom changes the place in which content is delivered (Valenza, 2012).

• Basically the concept of a flipped class is this: that which is traditionally done in class is now done at home, and that which is traditionally done as homework is now completed in class. But as you will see, there is more to a flipped classroom than this (Bergmann & Sams, 2012).

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The Changing Educational Landscape

• The home becomes the lecture space. The hundred+ year-old frontal teaching model flips.

• The class becomes conversation space, creation space, space where teachers actively facilitate learning.

• Class time is freed up for interactive and applied learning, activities that inspire critical thinking, exploration, inquiry, discussion, collaboration, problem solving.

-Valenza, 2012

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Time Spent: a comparison

(Bergmann & Sams, 2012)

The New Bloom’s

The Blooming Butterfly poster by Learning Today is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

(Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2009)

ISTE Nets for Students

(ISTE, 2007)

Does flipping enable student success?

Pros• Easier for students who may

have missed class to keep up because they can watch the video at any time.

• Teachers spend class time working through any gaps or misunderstandings around the content.

• Students move at their own pace.

• More time for one-to-one.

Cons• Same lecture-centered

approach, only online.• Repacking of traditional,

didactic learning.• Lack of teacher interaction.• Digital Divide• Not everyone learns best

through a screen.

THINK/PAIR/SHARE

How Can We Make It Work?

(Gerstein, 2011)

Reflect

• Think of your favorite lesson? Could it be enhanced by flipping? What would your students gain? What would be lost?

Take Away

• Reflecting on pedagogy.• Rethinking how

teachers reach students.

• Inspiring teachers to change the way they’ve always done things.

• Motivating teachers to use technology.

(Herz, 2012)

Resources• Flipped Learning Network

(www.flippedlearning.org)• Flipped Classroom Manifest,

http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-manifest-823.php

• Jackie Gerstein, http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-flipped-classroom-model-a-full-picture/

• TechSmith, The Flipped Classroom, http://www.techsmith.com/flipped-classroom.html

For great videos you can use:• TED-ed , www.ed.ted.com • OER Commons,

www.oercommons.org• Curriki,

www.welcome.curriki.org• Khan Academy,

www.kahnacademy.org• SolveforX ,

www.wesolveforx.com• MIT Open Courseware,

www.ocw.mit.edu/high-school

References• Bergmann, J. & Sams, A. (2012). Chapter 2: the flipped classroom. Flip Your Classroom: Reach

Every Student in Every Class Every Day. Virginia: ASCD/ISTE.• DMS Flipped Math. The Flipped Classroom by Aaron Sams. Accessed October 4, 2012, from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHYm7U0ePWY.• Gerstein, J. (2011). Flipped classroom full picture: an example lesson. User Generated

Education. Accessed October 4, 2012, from http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/flipped-classroom-full-picture-an-example-lesson/.

• Gerstein, J. (2012). An illustration of the flipped classroom: the full picture. Accessed October 4, 2012, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXcCBuU3ytU&list=UUxhUm1DtscZtu6mHOpORivQ&index=2&feature=plcp.

• Herz, M.B. (July 10, 2012). The flipped classroom: pro and con. Edutopia. Accessed October 4, 2012, from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-pro-and-con-mary-beth-hertz.

• International Society for Technology in Education (2007). ISTE nets-s. Accessed October 4, 2012, from www.iste.org/nets.

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2009). 21st century student outcomes and support systems. Accessed October 4, 1012, from http://www.p21.org/overview/skills-framework.

• Valenza, J. (August 14, 2012). The flipping librarian. Neverending Search. School Library Journal. Accessed October 4, 2012, from http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2012/08/14/the-flipping-librarian/