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The flipped classroom, allows students to have 24/7 access to teaching and learning materials through online (often video) instruction. While many educators use the flipped classroom differently (Tucker, 2012), all of their approaches involve engaging students through overt instruction at home, in order for them to have more time to collaborate, share, design and create in class.
Jinlei et al. (2012) define the flipped classroom as “a classroom the swaps the arrangement of knowledge imparting and knowledge internalization comparing to the traditional classroom.” (Jinlei, Wang, & Baohui, 2012) In the flipped classroom, teachers are in a better place to facilitate learning, and students are afforded more one-to-one guidance and instruction from their teacher, helping create a more collaborative space for learning, and creating. Future students need to have the ability to work with more information, and develop more skills than ever before. Through creating a flipped classroom by providing students with videos, and shared lessons where students can interact, the majority of the overt instruction has already been learned at home; an environment where students can learn at their own pace, and find answers to questions, by using digital tools. As a result of this, time at schools can then be used to help students develop the skills they need to think critically, problem solve, design and create. Through the use of this teaching model “instruction can be rethought to best maximize the scarcest learning resource—time” (Tucker, 2012). |