Flipped Teaching Speech is a bad medium for communicating information - so watch lectures at home

Flipped teaching reverses, or “flips”, traditional in-class lectures and homework. Students watch the teacher’s prerecorded lecture at home, and in-class time is used for students to test their skills, apply their knowledge, and interact through hands-on projects, discussions, and exercises.

Traditional lectures such as the one below can be sleep-inducing or worse:

Boring Economics teacher from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

The idea behind flipped teaching is straightforward:

• Students watch video recordings of lectures in their place of choice in their own time.
• The time in class is now available for hands-on work and face-to-face interaction with teachers and peers.

The rationale is simple too:

• Speech is a bad medium for communicating information – so watch lectures and videos at home.
• Speech is a good medium for dialogue – so do hands-on work and face-to-face interaction with teacher/peers at school and speaker/peers at a conference.

More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years | Donald Clark

Resources

• Blog Post: Why lectures are dead (or soon will be)
• Article: Twilight of the Lecture
• Article: Great lecture: what was it about again?
• Blog Post: Why I gave up flipped instruction
• Blog Post: What does research say about flipped teaching?
• Research Paper: The flipped classroom for teaching organic chemistry in small classes: is it effective?
• Research Paper: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Flipped Format General Chemistry Course