Advantages And Disadvantages Of A Flipped Classroom

Blended learning has been used in my own classroom for various content areas, but not in a workshop approach so I was interested in learning specifics. Authors Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansen understand the challenges of the classroom and offer clear step-by-step solutions to implementing a flipped approach.

Our Elementary School Blended Learning philosophy will be based on the work of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and subscribes to the following understandings. Blended learning focuses on the development of instructional strategies that are data driven and incorporate technology as a tool for engaging students in new levels of learning. By examining how to include strong components of student directed and personalized learning into each student’s, program our staff will discover new instructional strategies, new building structures, and identify professional learning needs. As a result of these discoveries, our Elementary school will seek to implement a blended model that is best suited to the needs of our learners and high expectations for all. Through our participation in this grant, we will explore the various blended learning models; including flex, station rotation, and lab then choose the model that best fits our students’ instructional

In a “flipped” classroom, students are introduced to new topics by watching assigned instructional videos at home. Class time is then reserved for practice, collaborative projects, and more meaningful discourse. In this way, the traditional means of teaching is flipped; instead of learning new concepts in class and then doing practice problems at

With 21st century skills and the movement of technology in classrooms today, teachers have a wide variety of ways to interact and reach their students. Marks (2015) states that flipping a classroom is the best way to address the ever changing classroom dynamics. Most classrooms have students who are struggling to master they content and those who are in need of more challenge. Marks (2015) claims that by flipping the classroom teachers are able to target students who are struggling, challenge students who are ready to move on, and support learning for students who are absent.

In a portion of today’s class we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of flipped classrooms, which are when the student watched the lesson plan at home and comes ready to do the activity or discussion in class the next day. Some of the advantages are that the students will be engaged in the material since its video form, it helps with time management in the classroom, the student can watch the lesson plan as many times as they like, etc. I think the best advantage of the flipped classroom is that the students can pause, rewind, and fast forward, where as in the classroom, that’s not an option. Some disadvantages to a flip classroom are not all students have a computer or Internet access at home and some students won’t watch the lesson plan. Especially in Title One schools, many students do not have computers at home or access to a computer to watch a lesson plan, making it extremely difficult to do the activity the next day. I think a flipped classroom would be good on a high school level or even college level, but I think it would be very difficult at the elementary school level.

Before one can explore the impact of a flipped learning classroom, we must first explore the topic of education. What is its purpose and why does society need an education system? We citizens understand that we start attending school at a young age and continue our education at least until the age of 18, upon graduating from high school. Then, should one choose to, some form of a higher education follows: technical college, junior college, or a four-year university. Throughout my 20+ years I’ve spent as a student, I have never thoroughly investigated the purpose of my education; I have always known that I want to better myself and continue my learning as long as possible. However, Richard Smith, a professor of education at University of Durham in United Kingdom put the definition of education into perspective: “Education has been identified as the inculcation of basic skills at one extreme and in terms of more high flown ideals concerned with civilized thinking and behavior at the other,” (Smith, 2007). Reading, writing and arithmetic, the basic skills most associate with an education, the basic skills needed for any person who wishes to be a member of society. Critical thinking, collaboration, innovation, inquiry-based learning, these are the ‘high flown ideals’ needed to attend an institute of higher education and to become a leader within any major profession. Smith goes on to state that “education may also be said to aim at the development of knowledge and

The report dwells on flipped classroom, which is about student centric learning approach rather than traditional learning. The university has the hypothetical aim of increasing the use of flipped classroom. It has partial implementation of this model and focused on extending it to other courses. Most of the courses are online with recorded lectures and few face-to-face communication sessions such as workshops primarily come under flipped learning. Though it can be considered as partial flip, there are certain ways in which it can be implemented. The following discussion on business need analysis and stakeholder analysis focus on Academic support perspective. The ways the academic support can be improved in order to enhance

The most common strength of students is technological literacy due to an increase in availability of technology such as laptops and smartphones as well as an increase in online assignments and/or typed assignments. The most common weaknesses of students include critical thinking, time-management, communication, and soft skills. Strategies to improve upon students’ weaknesses include reforming America’s education system by revoking the No Child Left Behind Act, decreasing the amount of exams and homework, allowing teachers more freedom in the classroom, and increasing the amount of collaborative and creative work for students.

It will try to pin points some of the difficulties involved in the learning and teaching process and suggests some appropriate methods and techniques for teaching the same.

Some of the problems in the use of this Online Learning Environment is its inaccessibility sometimes leading student’s failure to attend timed-online quizzes and activities. Most of the supplement activities is done online instead of doing it in the classroom. Another pressing concern that is that students who don’t have an internet access finds this online learning challenging. One of the challenges in flipped classroom is the inconsistency in bridging digital divide. Flipped classroom lack strong provision in cases where the learners don’t have a home technology access [5]. Although there is an internet connection throughout the entire campus, it is not guaranteed that each students has the tool to access it taking into consideration the diverse demographic profiles of the

The motivation to examine the flipped classroom as a theme of investigation originates from this present creator's advantage and mastery in utilizing innovation and how it can be utilized to draw in and upgrade the classroom condition today. Most secondary school seniors were conceived and grew up concurrent with the introduction of cell phones, youtube, myspace, facebook, snapchat and instagram. With the advances in innovation regularly, one starts to contemplate what is the eventual future of education. Flipped classroom turned into an enthusiasm of mine since it includes utilizing online videos and it can possibly furnish educators with additional time in the classroom to provide learning experiences that will reinforce the skills needed by the 21st Century student.

When students hear of the word “flipped learning,” most of the time they have no idea what you are talking about. For example, a peer of mine in the education department, had no idea what I was talking about. Her initial response to my question was, “What exactly is a flipped classroom? Isn’t that when students teach a class?” People, especially in the education field, should be more informed on what a flipped classroom is. In the study done by Schmidt and Ralph, they found that out of the 58 teachers, fifteen were knowledgeable about flipped classrooms whereas 13 were somewhat knowledgeable and 30 were not knowledgeable about the subject. Especially, with technology advancing, flipped classrooms are going to become more popular in the near future. However, most of my fellow classmates in high school went through a flipped classroom. In fact, when I went to interview them, they had completely forgotten or didn’t understand what a flipped classroom was. I found that most people do not understand what a flipped classroom is until you explain it to them.

“I don’t want my child sitting in front of a computer all day!” This is a criticism often heard from parents when they hear the term technology-based education. It is also a great misconception about this model of learning. Online education is on the rise as noted by the authors of Disrupting Class when they project that 50% of all high school courses will be online by 2019, and 80% by 2024 (Christensen 98). It cannot be ignored. Some parents and educators dislike this move away from the traditional classroom and feel the need to choose one learning model over the other. They fail to recognize that there is another choice – the best choice. An increasing trend in education today is a blended learning model that integrates a technologically-based approach with traditional classroom instruction. With the advantages of individualized instruction and college readiness, blended learning is the most efficient and effective way for students to learn.

This can be also used to have mix of both worlds. Not just online or full recorded classroom videos but something that gives a better learning experience. It is also called as Flipped learning. Flipped learning is combination of online teaching and recorded video sessions, which students watch usually at home and homework is now completed in the class with interaction from teachers and collaboration of students. Flipped teaching is a new form of blended learning instead of pure lecturing.

Courses offering flipped method of learning need additional student support for subject specific information delivered as webinars through the Griffith portal.