Flipped Learning: a new idea... or is it??

Hi again....

I am sorry for sending out two posts in one day, but the below article on some "flipped learning" history really caught my fancy.

You see, way way waaaay back, during the last century,(Ahem, that would be in 1998.....) after successfully experimenting with "distance learning" at the school I was working at, I tried to get other Yeshivot and Jewish Day Schools to think about running classes like this and... well... proposing school-wide electro shock therapy would have been easier!

Read the below article - it is soooo good.  To this day, I have troubles convincing teachers and HOS's that "Flipped Learning" (when done well) is a mighty tool that needs to be added to the modern teachers' tool box.  It DOES take time and patience to do well but the results can be amazing.

http://chronicle.com/article/When-a-Flipped-Classroom/151031/

So, what do you think?  Any anecdotes that you can add?  Post them to the blog please!

Regards....

Yossie

Yossie Frankel
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