Over the past two years, the Flipped Learning method has created quite a stir. Some argue that this teaching method will completely transform education, while others say it is simply an opportunity for boring lectures to be viewed in new …
Khan Academy: The future of education? (Interview: 60 Minutes)
With the backing of Gates and Google, Khan Academy and its free online educational videos are moving into the classroom and across the world. Their goal: to revolutionize how we teach and learn.
Khan Academy Enters Next Era With iPad App
Offline learning is the latest tool for the unorthodox education organization. Here’s how that and other new features will power Khan Academy’s new app.
3 Free And Easy Tools To Help You Flip The Classroom
With so many ways to flip the classroom, here are three of the best tools to help you record, present and host your content online.
http://www.fractuslearning.com/2012/02/27/tools-flip-the-classroom/…
To flip or not to flip? Does reverse instruction work?
It seems as though many teachers are afraid that videos will replace teachers. That is not what reverse instruction is about. In fact, the overarching majority of testimonials of those who have indeed “flipped the classroom” have been positive.
http://www.coetail.asia/jilliann/2012/02/20/to-flip-or-not-to-flip-does-reverse-instruction-work/…
30 Online Multimedia Resources for PBL and Flipped Classrooms
A great list of resources for Problem Based Learning and the Flipped Classroom approach.
Answers to your ‘Flipped School’ questions
See the answers to the most common questions about the Flipped Classroom model.
http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/30/answers-to-your-flipped-school-questions/…
Khan Academy Blends Its YouTube Approach With Classrooms
Salman Khan wants to weave his digital lessons into the fabric of the school curriculum — a more ambitious and as yet untested proposition.
4 Ways to Maximize Your Flipped Classroom Videos
Improving your videos for your flipped classroom classes doesn’t require you to be a film expert; it does require that you review what you provide for your students with a critical eye to get the maximum learning.
http://rsu2teachertech.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/4-ways-to-maximize-your-flipped-classroom-videos/
A radical approach to teaching Canadian students in the digital age
How the flipped classroom approach is improving the grades of students in a British Columbia school.
Khan Academy Gets $5 Million to Expand Faculty & Platform & to Build a Physical School
Khan Academy announced that it has raised $5 million.The money is earmarked for several initiatives: expanding the Khan Academy faculty, creating a content management system so that others can use the program’s learning analytics system, and building an actual brick-and-mortar …
To Flip or not to Flip Your Classrooms ?
The flipped classroom provides avenues for teachers to become facilitators of learning and move away from the sage on a stage approach to teaching. See the pros and cons of using such an approach in your classes.
http://www.classroom-aid.com/blog/bid/71534/To-Flip-or-not-to-Flip-your-Classrooms…
The Flipped Classroom
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Lectures Are Homework in Schools Following Khan Academy Lead
Many educators are experimenting with a “flip model” instructional approach. It requires students to watch online lessons and lectures at night so that they can spend class time going in depth with lab work, discussions, projects, and other activities.
8 Observations On Flipping The Classroom
One of the more unfortunate buzzwords to appear in online education circles and the press is “flipping the classroom”. This means that instead of lecturing students in lessons in school, the teacher records the lecture as a video and uploads …