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Flipping the classroom

Flipping the classroom

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Flipping the classroom

- I'd like to talk about how a Flipped Classroom Model using video can shift the way we define homework, and better support rigorous academic curricula. The standard model of academic instruction has been as followed: the teacher delivers a lesson to students in the classroom, then students go home and practice what they learned by completing homework. If they have questions, they bring them up in class the next day. This model is actually relatively new. Homework was discouraged in the first half of the 20th century. In 1901, California passed a law banning homework in grades K through 8, and limiting it in high school. But following the launch of Sputnik, Americans began to believe that schools weren't rigorous enough and began adding more and more homework. Many current student have over two hours of homework every night. The problem with this trend of adding more homework is that research reveals that homework provides little benefit to academic achievement, and giving too much…

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