This is what I get for doing my blog project later rather than sooner because so many issues of the issues in education and technology have already been posted. So in my search for a new and interesting topic I came across this reference to Flip-thinking.
You probably have seen the video Shift Happens by Karl Fisch. [If not, go to YouTube and see it for yourself.] I remembering seeing this video at our teacher convocation a few years back. Talk about starting the school year off with a bang! The statistics will rock your world.
It so happens that Mr. Fisch is teaching algebra this year to 9th and 10th graders. What’s unusual is that he has “flipped” his teaching sequence to the opposite of a traditional lecture style.
Let me explain.
Rather than Mr. Fisch teaching a lesson on polynomials during class time, he has created mini-videos and posted them on YouTube that students watch at home. So their homework is watching the lesson. When they come to school the next day rather than listening to the teacher teach, they work on problems all during class. So in the Flip-thinking model, you go home to learn the lesson, and come to school to do your homework.
Has Mr. Fisch flipped?
What a way to use technology. I don't think that he has flipped out just flipped the way students must think about technology. Maybe instead of gaming, texting and watching TV students are using their time at hand more appropriatly. I think that with so much at home college degrees and going to school in your pajamas he may be on to something!!
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