TED8570Spring2013

This is a great resource for explaining simply what a flipped classroom is for educators. It also is positively persuading how the flipped classroom model is extremely productive for the students. It gives examples of flipped classrooms and explains different models for different types of courses (online, traditional, etc.)

A PDF document that goes into detail on 7 important things to know about a flipped classroom. The document gives a scenario of a student taking a gardening class in the flipped style. They go into detail on the following areas. 1. What is it? (definition) 2. How does it work? 3. Who is doing it? (using the flipped model) 4. Why is it significant? 5. What are the downsides? 6. Where is it going? 7. What are the implications for teaching and learning?

A Stanford student enrolled in a online version of a class and posted a blog about his dislike of the course. He would rather have live classroom lectures, felt as though he wasn't being challenged, and thought that if all classes turn to this that their tuition should be lowered. There were several rebuttals to this blog post in favor of flipped classroom and talking of professors that offered a mixed live and video classroom.

Defines what a flipped classroom is. Advocates and highlights the advantages and mocks critical opinions which appear to stem from fear of change rather than well-thought potential pitfalls of the flipped classroom.

A website with a pros and cons list of the Flipped Classroom. It is displayed in pictures and graphics. After the pros and cons list the websites author went through and dissected all of the cons, in a kind of mocking way. So, the website is pro-flipped classroom. But, I did like the way the information and facts were visually displayed.

This article discusses the advantages of flipping the classroom and how working with students 80% of the time and lecturing 20% has better results than the traditional lecture method. Also discusses the business advantages of flipping the classroom and companies such as McGraw Hill that are willing to advance technologically to aide learning

This article describes how researchers at Harvard initiated a Peer Instruction Network for users of interactive teaching methods. The Peer Instruction Network is based on the idea of the flipped classroom. Used at the university level, the PI has transformed how professors are conducting college courses. Instead of lecturing, class time is spent addressing questions, discussing topics more in depth, and correcting mistakes.

This article provides a theoretical background to the discussion of the efficacy of the Khan Academy. Two important epistemologies, objectivism (the theory that information exists independent of the learner) and constructivism (the idea that knowledge is constructed through the learner's interaction with the world) are discussed. The three learning theories associated with these two theories (behaviorism, information processing, and constructivism) are also discussed. Those who espouse the constructivist (more traditional) approach to learning, have been the most critical of Salman Khan. Some argue against the Academy's approach by stating that, for example, mathematics is not just the acquisition of skills but also the processing of mathematical thought in the mind of the learner.

This website is a great source for a teacher transform their classroom into a flipped classroom. It gives explanations as to what it is, it gives examples and reflections on how wel it worked for the viewer, it gives articles and explanations from teachers who have used it successfully. It also gives technology considerations and content that is already created. It gives software options and web-based screencasting options. This site also gives you suggestions for low tech tutorials. There are tools you will need, blogs and articles about testimonies of it, misconceptions about it, and also issues to consider. This is a very informative and helpful resource.

This website offers tutorials in chemistry, biology, physics, geography, astronomy, and even math topics. As you click on the different topics you come to sites that are packed with information and activities, games, and extra links for more resources.

This website is for 21st Century Fluency Project and all about the fluencies that educators should have as they move into the future. These fluencies include solution fluency, creativity fluency, collaboration fluency, media fluency, and information fluency. This company's vision is to offer schools the resources that will assist in transforming learning. Thier focus is on professional transformation.

This is a website that is there to help teachers really think about the flipped classroom and how they could make it work effectively and smoothly. It talks about what you need to know about it, how to use engaging models, brings to mind the technology you would use to incorporate it, making sure students have an activity to reflect on what they learned, and the time and place in which the teacher would expect the student to do the tutorial. This does not say the flipped classroom is bad, it simply brings reality to it and forces the teacher to analyze how they will best implement it.

This website is a wonderful site for many subjects in music theory. The site contains lessons, customizable exercises and other tools to help both students and teachers.

This website has a ton of interactive exercises to help students learn grammar. It has mini lessons for students to read about and then activities for them to apply what they learned. There are also handouts teachers can print out as a supplementary assignment.

Interactive Solar System Tour, Constellations, Views from space and awesome background music

This site has tons of clip art in categories with audio and spelling if you hover over the picture. There are many different language options other than English available if you need them. Not all the topics work properly for me though--some just stream through the words instead of letting you hover over them to hear them.

Duolingo is a fantastic new website for learning languages. It offers courses in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian. Each course allows the learner to progress along various logical steps towards greater fluency. Additionally, it has a cooperative, social-media aspect in that it allows users to exchange information how to best translate materials. Overall, the site is an excellent tool for students to learn a language at their own pace and in an entertaining manner.

I love this website! I am using it to brush up on my German from high school before hitting Europe again next summer!

A browser-based virtual planetarium of stars and planets, customizable to any location and time.

The site includes several java applets to investigate Graphs of Functions, Equations, and Algebra. Topics explored are: equations of line, ellipse, circle, parabola, hyperbola, polynomials; graphs of quadratic, rational, hyperbolic, exponential and logarithmic functions; one-to-one and inverse functions and inverse trigonometric functions; systems of linear equations; determinants and Cramer's rule; inverse matrix and matrix multiplication; vectors, complex numbers, polar equations; absolute value function; slope of a line; angle in trigonometry, unit circle, solutions to trigonometric equations; graph shifting, stretching, compression and reflection.

This article is all about the backlash math teachers seem to have about Khan Academy. It talks about how Khan academy and similar sites are not a good substitute to the normal in class approach of math classes. And about how "When you attempt to distribute mathematics through any media, it changes the definition of mathematics." Which makes no sense to me…but I haven't taken a math class since my junior year of high school, so maybe that makes more sense to math people. They talk about how they don't like the approach Khan academy uses and how it doesn't seem to transfer in their classrooms when they've tried to use it.

This site had a nice little blurb about flipped classrooms and had three video interviews with educators who use the flipped classroom style in their schools and the talks about how successful it was and how positively the students responded to the flip. After the other site I reviewed was so negative, it is nice that this one was positive and I'm surprised by the percentage change before and after the flip of students failing the courses. The number of students failing the class was cut in half for science, math, social studies, and English in one case.