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I heard a cool piece on NPR the other day, talking about the benefits some schools and students are seeing by implementing flip teaching. Essentially, the hour
by evandena 14y ago
I heard a cool piece on NPR the other day, talking about the benefits some schools and students are seeing by implementing flip teaching.
Essentially, the hour long lectures are presented as a podcast/video/whatever and are to be viewed at home. This allows the students (and parents for that matter) to take as much time as needed, rewind, etc.
Then at class, the students do their homework, with the teacher helping and grading the work.
I'm really intrigued by this, and think there is a future for this method, given how technology has progressed.
- jeremyjh 14y agoThat is really cool. I hope it gets enough adoption we can see if it really helps.
- duncans 14y agoI sent this to a friend who's deputy head at a school in the UK about 18 months ago and they're now using it to great effect in a few subjects: http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein...
- stephencanon 14y agoThat's actually more-or-less the "traditional" british and american method of teaching (at least at the college level); historically, one was expected to show up in class having already studied the material to be discussed and prepared with questions to ask about points that were unclear. I'm not sure at what point it got "flipped" around to the current state where students expect to learn the material in lecture and then study their notes, but attempting to flip it back seems like a good idea.