Saturday, July 28, 2012

The flipped classroom is not just video

I'm trying to wrap my head around what I want to call this flipped classroom for my particular needs.  


I believe in more of a blended approach to delivering content that combines some flipped instruction along with learning centers and, yes, some direct instruction.  


In preparing the math videos, I keep recalling the rich conversations I had with my students as they explain to me and to their classmates how they solved a math problem, what strategies they used.  That doesn't happen if I only teach via video.

Here is a video done with a kick-butt ninja tool called  

Jackie Gerstein makes a valid point that it's "not all about watching videos as homework."


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