More Teachers Using Flipped Learning Model

The AP (1/28, Hoag) profiles the "technology-driven teaching method known as 'flipped learning' because it flips the time-honored model of classroom lecture and exercises for homework - the lecture becomes homework and class time is for practice." The AP notes that the concept, in which students watch brief online video lectures at home, and then do exercises in class, "apparently is catching on in schools across the nation as a younger, more tech-savvy generation of teachers is moving into classrooms. Although the number of 'flipped' teachers is hard to ascertain, the online community Flipped Learning Network now has 10,000 members, up from 2,500 a year ago, and training workshops are being held all over the country, said executive director Kari Afstrom."