Flipping the Classroom, and teaching via YouTube
One of the most exciting books Karen has read for a while, this is about Salman Khan's revolutionary new approach to education via online technology. Reading it, you begin perhaps with a little scepticism - does this approach really work? What about the pedagogy behind it? But the figures speak for themselves - the Khan Academy gets results.
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Flipping
There's a new buzzword - 'flipping'. Flipping the classroom, and now, Flipping the conference.
What's it all about?
Using technology to deliver what used to be delivered in the classroom (or conference). And then spending classroom (or conference) time talking about what pupils (students, delegates) have already had the chance to view.
- LearningConversations.co.uk on the concept of the flipped classroom
- YouTube on 'The Flipped Classroom':-
"Peer into Aaron Sams' classroom as he explains why he flipped his classroom. Aaron Sams, along with Jonathan Bergmann were the first to flip their classes. They currently teach in Woodland Park Colorado and are writing a book about the Flipped Class."
So today, Whittaker offers you a posting from InsideHigherEd.com - Flipping the Conference. Mention it to our own educational technologist, Gordon McLeod, and see his face light up. (Well, it might not, if too many people mention it, but you could be the first ...)
