Flipped learning

What is Flip –Learning?

Flip-Learning (as disused in the video)is a form of teaching in which the teacher acts more as support to enhance the students understanding of the lesson that is being taught. In this teaching modality the teacher also has more time to interact more with his students and also dedicate more time to those students who are having problems understanding the lecture. There are many sources online where we can obtain Flip-Learning lessons and provide more information such as,ed.ted.com, flipped-learning.com, flippedlearning.org and thedailyriff.com. This are very good sources that will help you to create your own conclusions just like they did with me                        

 An example of Flip-Learning class would be a classroom where the teacher utilizes Khan Academy (as shown in video) to teach math to the students, but instead of imparting the lecture lets the computer to do it and he focuses on the students who have trouble with the lesson. When the teacher can focus his attention on students who are at lower levels of understanding, he can help those students to reach the same level as their peers due to the extra one on one attention that they can receive. There will always be questions about any given lecture, however, with Flip-Learning students can rewind the video or call the teacher in order to understand the lesson. Now when utilizing Flip-Learning students will have more resources to succeed and reach their full potential.

However, there are some down sides of Flip-Learning. For instance Flip-Learning does not offer a great deal of benefit for students who learn best with hands on activities (primary education level). Therefore, those students will be always requiring the teacher’s assistance in order to understand the lecture. In this case if only few students hold the entire teacher’s attention the rest of the group may not get the quality of education that they should be receiving.

I strongly believe that teachers should be facilitators of knowledge and that teachers should help students to incorporate what they are learning into their lives so that way that knowledge will never go away. Teacher’s should not teach students just to pass a test, teachers should guide students to a path of adequate learning by using all the resources available around them and Flip-Learning for what I can see is a very attractive option that should be used in more schools.

More Information about Flip-Learning can be found at en.wikipedia.org, www.learningconversations.co.uk and 21 century learning. After learning the origins and the benefits of implementing Flip-leaning in the classroom now you can from your own opinions about Flip-Learning.