Much Ado About the Flipped Classroom

Thea offers the following information and links regarding the flipped classroom:

"The words 'flipped classroom' have been getting a lot of buzz lately.  But what does that mean for educators?  here are a few resources to break it down.

Flipping the presentation part of a lesson and having students come to class prepared to discuss isn't a new concept, though tech has changed how we can do this.  Author Mary Beth Hertz gives an overview of the basic principles of flipped learning and a list of potential pros and cons in her Edutopia.com article here.

Providing students with meaningful, autonomous, and interactive experiences with which to find the material is challenging.  It's easy to rely on one method of presentation, though we have the ability to connect in more ways than before.  So how do some instructors go about incorporating Flipped in their lesson planning, and what are their experiences?  Check out teacher Crystal Kirch's Prezi presentation describing her own experience here. (Links to an external site.)

Finally, this is clearly a method that is more appropriate to some situations than others.  It's a great way of engaging people who are already used to working autonomously and have easy access to technology, for example.  Here is a list of suggested free resources to check out if this sounds like your learning situation, including apps like Survey Generator and video streaming sites like ed.ted:" here.