Turning Education Upside Down

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   Three years ago, Clintondale ___ School became a “flipped ___,” one where students watch ___s’ lectures at home and ___ what we’d otherwise call “___” in class. Teachers record ___ lessons, which students watch ___ their smartphones, home computers ___ at lunch in the ___’s tech lab. In class, ___ do projects, exercises or ___ experiments while the teacher ___.

   Now flipped classrooms are ___ up all over. Havana ___ School (Illinois) is flipping, ___, after the school superintendent ___ Clintondale. The principal of ___ says that some 200 ___ officials have visited them.

   ___’s well known by now ___ online education is booming. ___ can study any subject ___ in a massive open ___ course. Courses are being ___ by universities like Harvard ___ by the teenager next ___ making videos in his garage. But while online courses can make high-quality education available to anyone with an Internet connection, they also have the potential to displace humans, with all that implies for teachers and students.

   Like everything innovative, online education is highly controversial. But the flipped classroom is a strategy that nearly everyone agrees on. “It’s the only thing I write about as having broad positive agreement,” said Justin Reich, from Harvard University.

   Flipping is still in the early stages, with much experimentation about how to do it right. Flipping’s track record in schools, while impressive, is anecdotal and short. But many people are holding it up as a potential model of how to use technology to humanize the classroom.

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