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FLIPPING CLASSROOMS<br />

Flipping classrooms<br />

is a new concept<br />

where students<br />

view their lectures<br />

at home and spend<br />

class room time on<br />

the application of<br />

knowledge like open<br />

ended projects.<br />

level students unchallenged<br />

and a group of<br />

struggling students that<br />

does not receive enough<br />

effective remediation.<br />

There clearly is a need<br />

for differentiation”.<br />

How does ICT fit in<br />

today? Most teachers<br />

use digital content as<br />

a supplement to the<br />

traditional class room<br />

experience. However,<br />

the pace of the curriculum<br />

is still offered in a<br />

kind of lock step pace<br />

where every students<br />

moves through the<br />

curriculum in the same<br />

time.<br />

Flipping classrooms is a new concept where students view their<br />

lectures at home and spend class room time on the application of<br />

knowledge like open ended projects. You may want to call this a<br />

fl ip, because the basic idea is that students listen to the lectures<br />

before getting into the classroom.<br />

Initiatives like The Kahn Academy < weblink (www.khanacademy.org)<br />

(4 million users) offer lectures, so that students watch, rewind and<br />

pause the lectures as many time as they need, post questions on<br />

line to the teacher or class mates, look at basic concepts if needed<br />

or just go ahead and listen to additional lectures. One of the main<br />

advantages is that students work in the class room at their own<br />

<strong>ESHA</strong> MAGAZINE APRIL 2012 63

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