By Jay Bullock, Bay View Compass
A “flipped” class is upside-down: Traditional homework activities are done in class with teacher support, while lecture- or demonstration-style teaching is done online, where students watch at home, or individually in class. Flipping lets students, who are working at home, take as much time as they need to understand a lesson—rewinding and re-watching videos as often as necessary. Likewise, they receive as much help as they need to complete the homework while they are physically in their classroom, since the teacher is right there with them. Perhaps the most famous flipping is done with help from Khan Academy. Former Wall Streeter Salman ‘Sal’ Khan started making web videos to tutor his cousins in math in 2006. Since then his work has exploded; he has received funding from the Gates Foundation and Google. A number of schools, mostly in California, are using his videos to teach math. Khan, via YouTube, does the teaching; teachers coach one-on-one as students work on practice problems.
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