Flipping the Classroom

[greatlaurel]

1. When this was tried in my kid's classroom, it was an unmitigated disaster.

This is just another one of those ideas that will get loads of attention, because it is different. In real life it does not work very well at all. Listening to classroom lectures on their own time out of school, just adds to the amount of time kids are being forced to spend on homework. Just another way to keep kids busy and locked inside watching a computer screen. What happens to the kids who did not have access to high speed wireless at home? They never get the lecture at home. This sounds like another one of those for-profit school scams.

It is one more step to not having real teachers in the classroom. It is much cheaper to video a lecture once and play it over and over rather than hire real teachers and professors to teach. Some professors would fall for this, because there are some who do not like lecturing. They do not realize that this will be used to eliminate their jobs completely once the video is made.

Really bad idea.