Reading 1

Read the following article: Flip Your Students' Learning and answer the following questions. Please be sure to copy the question before your response.

1. Describe what a "flipped" classroom is and how it works.

2. What is the role of video in a flipped classroom?

3. Define "screencast".

4. What do the authors mean by the following statement?

"we concluded that our instructional videos were valuable in shifting the lower levels of Bloom's taxonomy out of the class, enabling us to spend more class time at the upper end of the taxonomy"

5. How does the flipped classroom enable students to work at their own pace?

6. Why did the authors give some students DVD's?

7. How does the flipped classroom encourage "mastery learning"?

8. In the "Universal Design for Learning" section, the authors discuss two nontraditional approaches: one for delivery of instruction and one for assessment. Describe each.

9. What do you think about flipped classrooms? What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages? Would you use this methodology as a teacher? Give an example.