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You Need to Read Carolina's Flipping Manifesto!

6/9/2018

 
         I must echo and support Carolina Buitrago's terrific recent blog post "What Flipping Is Not". She warns against stretching the definition so far that "flipped-learning" loses its meaning, or that it gets incorrectly applied which leads to false advertising and misunderstandings of the method. Her post contains so many valuable statements, including:
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I blogged about something similar a couple times last July:
  • Do We Need a Flipping Gatekeeper?
  • We Need Another Flipping Term
       
        Both posts received some pushback from colleagues who prefer an "elastic" definition, but Carolina's well-researched article illustrates, explains, and demonstrates the dangers. I suppose that flipped teaching could be achieved well even with textbook readings, depending on how the teacher follows up in the group-learning space. Within the parameters of my daily 45-minute class periods with 13-14 year-olds in social studies, though, I cannot imagine going back to text-based homework tasks. Flipping with videos solves nearly all the problems that I was trying to fix 5 years ago.

         I don't have much to add because Carolina wrote so much and expressed it so well. Thank you for reaffirming the power of #flipblogs!! :)
Carolina link
6/10/2018 08:30:33 am

Thank you very much Andrew!! I didn't think anyone would think this much of my post! Thanks a lot for your recognition and follow up!


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       Andrew Swan is in year 20  of teaching middle school (currently grade 8 US Civics/Government in a Boston suburb). Previously he taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade English, US History, geography, and ancient history in Massachusetts and Maine. 
      For the past 6 years, Andrew has flipped nearly all his direct instruction so we have more class time for simulations, deep discussions, analyzing primary sources, etc. ... and also to promote mastery for students at all levels.
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