The Flipped Classroom

I attended (and presented at) the Region X "Innovate 2 Educate" day of technology. It was a great day and many thanks go out to all the presenters for sharing their talents with us. The keynote speaker was Kevin Honeycutt from Wichita, Kansas, and he was awesome! Another post to follow on him. If you ever have the chance to talk with him or hear him speak, it will be well worth your time.

One of the sessions I attended was on the Flipped Classroom with Kimberly Howard. There is a big push in many schools to use this format in the classroom. I think this method has a lot of merit and needs to be closely examined. Teachers may find it initially time intensive to prepare for it, but once you are past that, it will be easy, easy, easy. I plan on using this in my classroom next year. I'm sure I will have plenty to talk about!

To basically define the Flipped Classroom this is where the "lecture" or teacher centered activity is done at home via prepared video by the teacher and the "homework" is now moved to the classroom where a teacher can be a guide for the student.
Take a look at these links and the info graphic that follows:

The Flipped Class Network

DMS Flipped Math Classroom

Prezi presentation from Kimberly Howard (presented at Region X)

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