By Christina Hoag
The Associated Press
January 28. 2013
The Associated Press reports on the adoption of flipped learning across the country, from California to Michigan to Pittsburgh. See some highlights from the article below and check out more at the Portland Press Herald.
“When Timmy Nguyen comes to his pre-calculus class, he’s already learned the day’s lesson — he watched it on a short online video prepared by his teacher for homework.
“It’s a technology-driven teaching method known as “flipped learning” because it flips the time-honored model of classroom lecture and exercises for homework — the lecture becomes homework and class time is for practice.
“Under the model, teachers make eight- to 10-minute videos of their lessons using laptops, often simply filming the whiteboard as the teacher makes notations and recording their voice as they explain the concept. The videos are uploaded onto a teacher or school website, or even YouTube, where they can be accessed by students on computers or smartphones as homework.
“‘The first year, I was able to double the number of labs my students were doing,” [Aaron] Sams said. “That’s every science teacher’s dream.'”