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'Flipped' classrooms take advantage of technology - USATODAY.com - 0 views

    • Kelsey K_VHS
       
      Thsi article talks about the use of technology in a high school classroom setting. In some cases, technology has become the new tool of choice instead of the tradtional whiteborad and textbook.
  • Sitting in pairs, students poke at their iPads waiting for class to begin
  • allows students to time-stamp lecture notes
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  • the latest way technology is changing teachers' jobs
  • allows students to chat online while watching the videos
  • digitally records her lessons with a tablet computer as a virtual blackboard, then uploads them to iTunes and assigns them as homework
  • attracted the attention of funders such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has become a major backer of Khan Academy
  • she worries that many low-income students don't have reliable Internet or computer access at home
  • has made her students more independent, less-stressed learners
  • all about helping students understand difficult material
  • applying the lesson to problem sets
Kelsey K_VHS

Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost: 'Flipped' classrooms offer virtual lear... - 0 views

    • Kelsey K_VHS
       
      This USA Today Article give an example of how technology is being used in high school classrooms today. The traditonal whitboard is being replaced by iPads and computer programs. Most students and teachers find this benifical because it allows students to try to think and work through problems for themselves before asking instructors
  • Sitting in pairs, students poke at their iPads waiting for class to begin
  • digitally records her lessons with a tablet computer as a virtual blackboard, then uploads them to iTunes and assigns them as homework
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • the latest way technology is changing teachers' jobs
  • allows students to chat online while watching the videos
  • attracted the attention of funders such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has become a major backer of Khan Academy, a non-profit repository of nearly 2,400 free instructional videos that teachers use to teach everything from pre-algebra to Augusto Pinochet's Chile.
  • flipped classrooms show a lot of potential, but she worries that many low-income students don't have reliable Internet or computer access at home
  • all about helping students understand difficult material
  • made her students more independent, less-stressed learners
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