Derek Bruff gives his unique take on the flipped classroom… what to have the students do before they enter the classroom and what to do once they get there.

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Shin, H. (2015) ‘Flipping the Flipped Classroom: The Beauty of Spontaneous and Instantaneous Close Reading’, The National Teaching & Learning Forum, 24(4), pp. 1–4. doi: 10.1002/ntlf.30027.

What are the experiences and activities we want to have our students engage in that will help them make sense of this material and have them do something interesting with it?” – Derek Bruff

Vanderbilt flipping the classroom

FlippedClassroom.org

If students aren’t doing the pre-work before they come to class, the time together isn’t going to be well-served.” – Derek Bruff

Concerns that the flipped classroom is doubling the work for the students.

Effective Grading, by Barbara Walvoord

Schwartz, Daniel L. and Bransford, John D.(1998)’A Time For Telling’,Cognition and Instruction,16:4,475 — 522

Diet coke and Mentos experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS2vG1o7Op4

This video is just an example of the Mentos/Diet Coke experiment; it isn’t Derek’s daughter

Students first need to encounter a problem, or a challenge, or something mysterious… and then that provides motivation to hear the 15 minute [explanation].” – Derek Bruff

Classes should do hands-on exercises before reading and video, Stanford researchers say. (2013, July 16). Retrieved 21 October 2015, from http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/july/flipped-learning-model-071613.html

Even when you have defaults [in your teaching], you want to have good defaults…” – Derek Bruff

Peter Newbury on Teaching in Higher Ed talks about Peer Instruction

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