Tuesday 11 December 2012

Why the flip’s a flop

I don’t like the Flipped Classroom approach because its foundation is in flipping lectures from classwork to homework.

There are two problems with that.

  1. Lecture
    Lecture is not the most effective method for learning and,
  2. Homework
    Not only should families not be forced to bring school into the home, but there is a growing body of research shared by education thought-leaders like
    Alfie Kohn, Peter Dewitt, Ira Socal, and Joe Bower that says there’s little to no benefit in doing so.  

When this is pointed out to flipped classroom proponents they often carry on about the model being more than lecture-driven homework. Especially, they explain, for those who have evolved to flipped classroom 201 or 2.0. But for those teachers who are enlightened to know that homework and lecture are not best ways to support learning, why hang on to a term rooted in that?  

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