If you want to understand teens and their new social spaces and all of the implications that come along with that, Danah Boyd's new book, It's Complicated: The social lives of networked teens is a must-read.
This interview is on the topic of this research and her book.
“Ultimately, flipping a classroom involves shifting the energy away from the instructor and toward the students and then leveraging educational tools to enhance the learning environment.”
This allows students to spend time problem solving, creating, critiquing, and synthesizing in class with their peers and with their instructor. Students are more active in flipped environments which add a new level of complexity to the classroom.
Instructors focus on higher level learning outcomes during class time and lower level outcomes outside of class
focus on involving students in the process of learning during class.
The true essence of the flip is really to focus on the student.
Flipped classrooms are interactive— sometimes even ‘messy’—because students are working together and solving problems rather than sitting passively listening to a lecture
are also risky. Instructors relinquish a degree of control when the energy in the classroom shifts to the students
“What do the students need to DO to achieve the learning outcome?”
or even call for more rigorous or competitive grading and testing.
The point may not have been to produce a better outcome for students at all but to make sure they don’t “get away with” something. If you do something bad, something bad must be done to you -- regardless of the effect.
Survey finds over half of teachers have no plans to use social media with students/in classroom... largely because they don't understand it/don't know how to leverage it.
“A risk-averse society will, paradoxically, exacerbate rather than reduce the very vulnerabilities it seeks to protect by undermining the development of resilience.