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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Hechinger Report | Promise of the ‘flipped classroom’ eludes poorer school districts

Hechinger Report | Promise of the ‘flipped classroom’ eludes poorer school districts:


Promise of the ‘flipped classroom’ eludes poorer school districts

Jasmine Redeaux (left) and Nakesha Wilkerson team up to finish a worksheet in a "flipped" chemistry class at their Macon, Ga., high school, while other classmates work on a lab. (Photo by Sarah Butrymowicz)
When Portland, Ore., elementary school teacher Sacha Luria decided last fall to try out a new education strategy called “flipping the classroom,” she faced a big obstacle.
Flipped classrooms use technology—online video instruction, laptops, DVDs of lessons—to reverse what students have traditionally done in class and at home to learn. Listening to lectures becomes the homework