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Flip your instruction so that students watch and listen to your lectures… for homework, and then use your precious class-time for what previously, often, was done in homework: tackling difficult problems, working in groups, researching, collaborating, crafting and creating.

The advantage of the flipped classroom is that the content, often the theoretical/lecture-based component of the lesson, becomes more easily accessed and controlled by the learner.

One of the major, evidenced-based advantages of the use of video is that learners have control over the media with the ability to review parts that are misunderstood, which need further reinforcement, and/or those parts that are of particular interest

" . . .not all material is suitable to be taught through a video lesson."

But, you absolutely must begin by first deciding what the end product looks like.

After determining what you want your students to master and how that should look, begin creating (or collecting) quality learning resources

As learners, we humans only retain 10 percent of what we read and 20 percent of what we hear, but we comprehend 90 percent of what we say and do

The idea has even proved inspirational to other technology-challenged domains (e.g., health care) to spark better use of online information to prepare for face-to-face encounters.

What Khan Academy is not, though,

A synonym for online videos. When most people hear about the flipped class all they think about are the videos.  It is the the interaction and the meaningful learning activities that occur during the face-to-face time that is most important

A blending of direct instruction with constructivist learning.

A class where content is permanently archived  for review or remediation.A class where all students are engaged in their learning.A place where all students can get a personalized education

pre-recording certain topics that students consistently ask about, such as "How do I get to Google Docs?" and "What does MLA formatting look like?" Then, instead of having to answer the question over and over, teachers can simply point those students to a video.

common was a desire to personalize and individualize learning for their students.

ISTE 2012

Science Friday lesson plans are based on our popular Science Friday Videos and are created for us by the New York Hall of Science.

humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world.

Ask any math student what their least favorite part of the math curriculum is, and they will tell you "word problems." Seriously, this is a universal truth : ). Wolfram wants us to give just word problems, letting the com

Watch a video explaining what Twitter is.

Add some well known educational technologists from the list below to your list of people you follow. David Warlick Vicki Davis Angela Maiers Rod Lucier Alec Couros Jen Farr Russel Tarr Kevin Jarrett Steve Hargadon Bernie Dodge Will Richardson Bud Hunt

Finally, consider adding some twitter lists. A list a set of tweeps maintained by one twitter user. That user keeps the list pruned so that it's useful to him or her, and it might be useful to you, too. Here are some lists in content areas relevant to some of you in this class. If you add a list to your list of followers, you're adding dozens of other (ideally) well-chosen minds all at once History | Literature | NYT Book Reviews | Biology | Physics | Music |