Timeline for For interview questions about innovative or engaging teaching, is it OK to say I give lectures in the standard way?
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| Jan 2, 2020 at 1:58 | comment | added | Ben I. | ... ignoring the approach. But that's just doing it badly. Bad enactment doesn't reflect poorly on the model, only on the teacher. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 1:55 | comment | added | Ben I. | ... the study you cite without being about the study at all, it's simply a basic overview of the technique. hanoverresearch.com/insights-blog/…. Student and teacher buy-in are central, but so is choosing appropriate lessons. It further stands to reason that any pedagogical approach you take must be reasonably supported by the other things you do (e.g. group work in class) or they will simply not do as well as they should. If your understanding of the model is fixed at "make them watch videos and don't teach", then you are justified in... | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 1:51 | comment | added | Ben I. | I find this entire answer objectionable. You start off by dismissing the flipped classroom model as a "fad" that will "swing out of favor", and then cherry-pick studies. The answer reads like you are interested in digging out ways to avoid the technique without having to go to the trouble of actually learnijg about it. You don't have to dig far to find basically everything Buffy said in his critique verified. My top Google result for "flipped classroom best practices" (no quotes) pulls up an article explaining the basics very well, and it echos every one of Buffy's objections to... | |
| Jan 1, 2020 at 17:58 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @Buffy: I've read your critique and don't find it to be compelling. E.g., the model used (such as watching videos alone) is very standard and matches multiple sources in the bibliography, for example Schaffhauser 2016: "Fifty-five percent of the survey respondents said they are somewhere along the spectrum of flipping all or some of their courses, in which they ask their students to view videos or some other digital matter online before coming to school..." | |
| Jan 1, 2020 at 16:55 | comment | added | Buffy | I've given a long form critique of the paper mentioned at the end of this post on Math Educators: matheducators.stackexchange.com/a/17665/8756. The question asked there is more specifically about teaching methodology. | |
| Jan 1, 2020 at 14:15 | comment | added | Buffy | Most important, the conclusion in the paper that the flipped classroom disadvantages minorities is just a consequence of a poor experimental design. The design itself advantages cultural and economic majority students. The classroom design used in the experiment would be malpractice if extended. | |
| Jan 1, 2020 at 14:04 | comment | added | Buffy | Sorry, but the paper you cite is badly flawed. It discusses a "model" for a flipped classroom that few who do that would recognize. The experimental methodology is also fatally flawed. Sorry that SE doesn't give me a way to expand these comments fully. But beware. | |
| Jan 1, 2020 at 8:07 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | The examples you have given are neither innovative nor teaching activities. They are good things to do. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 13:37 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @Bobgom: Good point. I've edited that sentence to focus on the strong/weak distinction, not white/non-white. Hopefully that's more defensible. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 13:36 | history | edited | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2019 at 4:18 | comment | added | Bobgom | Surely if flipped classrooms actually reduce equity for minority and weaker students, then it is not justified to continue using these techniques on the grounds that the school is already dominated by elite white students. The fact that a school is already grossly unequal is not a reason to continue using methods that entrench it further. | |
| Dec 27, 2019 at 16:34 | history | edited | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2019 at 16:31 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @Buffy: I asked the author for a citation to the recent study on flipped classrooms, and added that to the bottom of my current answer. Thanks for inquiring about that. | |
| Dec 27, 2019 at 16:27 | history | edited | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2019 at 16:07 | comment | added | Buffy | Since that article is so focused on technology in the classroom, I tend to doubt their conclusions about the flipped classroom. If what they studied is also tech-heavy then I find it easy to question the results. It certainly isn't what I mean. Words are easy to misuse. One use of the flipped classroom is that the instructor can focus on those students who need the help most and can even enlist the superstars to help. It isn't about where things happen, but about what happens when people are together. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 15:59 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @Buffy: You seem to have misread the linked article. Highlight: "A similar effect has been found for 'flipped' courses, which have students watch lectures at home via technology and use class time for discussion and problem-solving. A flipped college math class resulted in short-term gains for white students, male students, and those who were already strong in math. Others saw no benefit, with the result that performance gaps became wider." | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 15:54 | comment | added | Buffy | Hmmm. I don't consider giving six year olds access to iPads a positive educational practice, and it certainly isn't what is meant by a "flipped classroom." And "fully guided" doesn't equate to lecture, nor is it an argument against the flipped classroom. | |
| Dec 25, 2019 at 20:03 | history | answered | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |