Educators Evaluate 'Flipped Classrooms'

Salman Khan inspired a movement called “flipped classroom”.  Flipping a classroom would mean swapping homework for class work.  Students would watch video lectures for homework and do hands-on activities in the classroom.  Educators are realizing that there are many ways to “flip” a classroom. Some teachers allow time in class for some of the videos to be watched and some teachers do not require students to watch the videos at all, they are just there if needed.  Flipping your classroom allows teachers to spend more one on one time with the students.  For the flipping your classroom concept to actually work you need to ask your students questions about the videos or make them take notes on the videos like Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams get their students to do.