ESHA Magazine April 2012.pdf
ESHA Magazine April 2012.pdf
ESHA Magazine April 2012.pdf
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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