This is loosely related but I thought it was pretty interesting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...g-the-new-buzz-word-sweeping-the-US.htmlLectures at night, �homework� during the day. Call it the Fisch Flip.
�When you do a standard lecture in class, and then the students go home to do the problems, some of them are lost. They spend a whole lot of time being frustrated and, even worse, doing it wrong,� Fisch told me.
�The idea behind the videos was to flip it. The students can watch it outside of class, pause it, replay it, view it several times, even mute me if they want,� says Fisch, who emphasises that he didn�t come up with the idea, nor is he the only teacher in the country giving it a try. �That allows us to work on what we used to do as homework when I�m they�re to help students and they�re there to help each other.�
When he puts it like that, you want to slap your forehead at the idea�s inexorable logic. You wonder why more schools aren�t doing it this way. That�s the power of flipping. It melts calcified thinking and leads to solutions that are simple to envision and to implement.
