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Don’t flip a class:  Flip a lesson.

You might also not assign the video as homework, but make it a center in your classroom for students who struggle and/or need extra help.

Figure out how you will check

Caryn Friedman, who is an expert in reading literacy.  When we chatted about the flipped class she feels that the place for the video is not at the beginning of learning cycle but rather in the middle.  She tells me that if a student watches a video and learns something incorrectly, then she will have to help the student un-learn the content before they re-learn it correctly.  She sees the flipped videos as being better suited (for her purposes) as remediation and practice.  So make sure you think through where the video (or if a video) is best suited for a particular lesson.

they can ask the teacher questions through the network,

They can check out lectures from experts and professors at iTunes U

they can share and save what they learned with other students on the network.

They can graph their results, sketch a possible example

The teacher might be tempted to direct the students

but focusing solely on the apps, or student control, limits the true potential of the iPad -- "a tool to think with."

Another Example

the students not only can dictate or type the descriptions of the phases of the experiment as it progresses, but they can take still photographs and movies to document the progress