The+Pedagogy

Flip teaching is not about kids watching videos, or on line learning. It is not even about the kids doing classwork at home and homework in class. The Flip is more about the way the teacher views their expertise and their job. As teachers we know our subject material ~ most of us have an almost encyclopaedic knowledge about sections of our subject. We know essentially how our students learn and we communicate effectively with them in order to facilitate this learning. We plan how we assess this learning; whether it be formative or summative assessment. And we are great helpers and communicators. It's easy to "tell" our students what they need to know. We can often impress them with what we know. But that's about US, it's not about our students. Our students are "Net-generation" learners, Millenial students, Generation Y, Digital Natives. We (or me, a baby boomer!) are more likely to be Digital Immigrants. As Rodgers et al in "Teaching the 21st Century Learner" described the differences between most students and their teachers:- **BUT this is not the main reason to flip. **
 * ~ Students ||~ Teachers ||
 * = Multitasking ||= Single or limited task ||
 * = Picture, sound, video ||= Text ||
 * = Random access ||= Linear,logical, sequential ||
 * = Interactive and networked ||= Independent and individual ||

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">The great philosopher Socrates was also an amazing educator.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;">The Socratic Method is a pedagogical technique in which a teacher does not give information directly but instead asks a series of questions, with the result that the student comes either to the desired knowledge by answering the questions or to a deeper awareness of the limits of knowledge.Essentially he said to his students 'You go and study and when you have some knowledge, come back and we'll discuss it.'Using the ideas of Benjamin Bloom, and his taxonomy <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;">'You go and do the low order tasks, come back and I'll use my expertise in subject matter and teaching techniques to bring higher order thinking into our classroom' **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">That is why we flip! **  <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Sometimes wisdom comes from the strangest places. Stephanie Mills (an American R&B singer) wrote: **<span style="color: #0059ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old." **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Once I decided to try the flip I had to find resources. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">