A flipped classroom is an interesting concept to me. I think it would be great to do periodically throughout the year, but I don't know if it would be best to do it ALL the time. Homework isn't generally designed to take up a whole school day, so doing this would involve a lot of extra planning. But it might be worth it. A lot of the time, students think they understand the material that they've learned at school, until they get home to work on their assignments-and get stuck. Doing their homework at school during the day would definitely get rid of that problem. If I were to apply this in my classroom, I would probably do it for the material that was harder to grasp. I feel that there is a few set back though such as the students not having access to a computer or internet at home to watch the lectures or the students having a lot of extracurricular activities outside of school (dance, football, soccer, etc.) and just being to busy to sit in front of a computer and take notes at their own pace.
I do agree that it would put a fun spin on an otherwise 'boring' classroom or boring lesson. Students love technology, and we as teachers need to keep that in mind. It also minimizes the amount of discipline during lecture time (which is the only time that I would mind my students talking in the first place). As I've said, there are a lot of positive aspects of a flipped classroom, but not everyone would be able to establish this strategy.
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