Comments on: Pondering about flipped classrooms

By: Tarmo Toikkanen

Tarmo Toikkanen — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:05:11 +0000

I’ve understood one major problem with students multitasking is that some of those other tasks are not education-related, eg. Facebooking with friends. Our idea about the flip is about making the main activities during class time so engaging and interesting that there is no need to fill bored moments with Facebook, IM, and games.

By: Janet Abercrombie

Janet Abercrombie — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:59:10 +0000

I like your point of view (and would really like teaching in European activity-based schools!). I’m not convinced that lecturing on video is any more effective than lecturing in class. Lecture is lecture – and I prefer that students construct ideas through activities.

There is value in having short videos – to the extent they initiate or guide student activities to a specific end. I think videos can be used for differentiation but, if the videos include lecture, they should be viewed by pairs of students with conversation/reflection built in every 5 minutes.

I wrote an article about how we should talk about flipped lessons instead of flipped classrooms: http://wp.me/p1Dq2f-i9. By flipping particular lessons instead of whole classrooms, the flipped model becomes one of many models in the teacher toolchest.

By: Adil Tugyan

Adil Tugyan — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:00:50 +0000

Fliped classrom has advantages for students who are not good note takers.Intead of assingnig students with revisions ,teachers can say Watch this video at home as your assignment.Some experts say ,it is better than traditional teaching ,in some ways I agree with them .

By: Eero Nukari

Eero Nukari — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:16:52 +0000

Students also multitask in classrooms. While watching a video they can at least press pause and rewind.

By: Peeii

Peeii — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:10:43 +0000

Think you speak more about collaborative learning activities than flipped classroom? And probably that’s the point at hand.

By: Anna Keune

Anna Keune — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:02:43 +0000

A good background information about Khan Academy written in Finnish. Helpoin tapa kantaa maailmaa harteillaan on seisoa paallaan