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'Flipped' classrooms take advantage of technology
- 10-07-2011
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By Greg Toppo/USA Today
Step into Stacey Roshan's Advanced Placement calculus class some morning and two things become apparent: The students don't seem stressed-out, as AP students often do. And the teacher is barely teaching. Sitting in pairs, students poke at their iPads waiting for class to begin. But in place of a long-winded lecture there's Roshan, a petite brunette with a broad smile, moving through the room, urging students to take out their homework. In a word, Roshan has "flipped" her class. Pressed for time and struggling to reach a generation raised on YouTube, Roshan, like a growing number of teachers, digitally records her lessons with a tablet computer as a virtual blackboard, then uploads them to iTunes and assigns them as homework. In class the following day, she helps students work out exercises and answer knotty questions. It's the latest way technology is changing teachers' jobs — in this case it's literally turning their workday upside-down. (more...)
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