Flipped Learning

Flipped Learning...What is that?

Flipped learning is a cool new stratgey teachers are using to help learning becoome fun and interesting.  According to Fliiped Learning, the goal of this method is to conduct, collaborate and disseminate relevant research and act as the clearinghouse for distributing best and promising practices for current and future educators.  Instead of the teachers giving the students the information, they make the students do all the work on their own whereever they decide to. Here is a link explaining the suffigance of flipped learningFlipped Classrooms

 Teachers are taking the normal way of teaching and flipping it to try to get better results in test grades and get students to understand more. Normally teachers stand in front of their basic set up classrooms lecturing the students about the a certain topic.This basic classroom  is a link explaining whats is a basic classroom and how it should look. Well standing upon the students teachers are hoping some of the information stick to the students brains instead of going in one ear and out the other. Sometimes when teachers speak the students zone out and only catch bits of pieces of the information. Teachers are trying to figure out new methods that will increase student comprehension in the subject and in life.

Now I'm all for finding new methods to better educate the youth however, I'm questioning this method. How can us as teachers and professors make sure our students understand what they are doing if we're not there to guide them through the assignment. Anybody can get someone else to complete the lesson for them or copy the assignment off the Internet or another peer and say they did it assignment but the question is do they understand what they did and did they really do it? Here is a link explaining some of the advantages and disadvantages of flipped classrooms

On a positive note I do believe this will allow students to become less dependent on the teacher and others and more dependent on their own knowledge. It will motivate them to pay attention to the little help they receive in class and teach them how to figure things out on their own. This method is basically preparing the students for the real world where there isn't someone giving you the answer to everything;You have to work hard and figure things out on your own. If needed help the teacher is there to guide but its showing them that they hold their future in their hands. They're only going to get what they put in.

Experiencing Blog

Working with three other people was always a problem for me. I never liked counting on others with my grades. I've always been an "individual" group setting type of person. I can honestly say I enjoyed working with my group. Everyone held their own weight and we all got along. There was no one that thiught they were above the group and everyone was willing to help onanother. I think the best part about working together was using google doc. That was so cool to me. I never knew you could use something like that exist let alone use it for homework. I loved the whole thing.