CLASS DRIVER-- Flip. That. Learning.

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No two people are the same and their learning styles aren’t either. While some students learn better by listening others might retain information better from reading or writing. I took a Biology class last semester and I might as well have been taking Chinese. Listening to and taking notes on the lectures was totally above my head. Even reading from the book wasn’t enough to help my learning. Thank God for YouTube. After class, I would go home and watch videos on YouTube explaining the concepts we covered in class. I didn’t learn mitosis from a book or from a teacher, but I learned it from the World Wide Web. YouTube videos contained the visual representations and demonstrations that I needed to grasp the concepts and processes. The friendly and quirky YouTube scientists delivered the information in video form and a way that made it easier for me to understand and apply.

It’s the night before a final paper is due. 30 pages. 10 scholarly sources. 5 hours. This is when my best work is done. Just me, my Mt. Dew, and a laptop sitting silently at my kitchen table. I can’t spend a week working on a running draft. I just can’t. I lose my train of thought and all articulation goes out the window. Pressure expedites my process. This rings true for studying for tests as well. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a crammer. Yes, I am a proud crammer. There’s nothing like stuffing the brain with information two hours before a test.

Flipped learning is cool learning. I like the idea of my students knowing a little bit about what we’re going to cover in class before we cover it. One issue I have with flipped learning is the levels of participation. How can I ensure that my students will go home and learn outside the classroom and be prepared to come back and discuss the next day? The thing I like the most about flipped learning is that it fits nicely with the 4C pedagogue. I firmly believe that student centered instruction makes learning better and school more fun. 

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