Flipped Classrooms

            Flipped classrooms encourage students to use educational technology in their classes and to engage in activities that reinforce what the students are learning through their lectures. The learning environment is better enhanced because teachers are able to deliver lectures to the students outside of the classroom using online videos, podcasts, etc. In 2010 over 30 percent of internet users reported having viewed an online educational video. 

            The numbers are not surprising considering the effects that advances in technology have made in our everyday lives, which have led to changes such as: “flipping” classrooms. Some may question the ability for every student to have internet access at home, but fortunately it only requires students to take 5-7 minutes out of their day to watch the videos or access the classroom webpage at school. I am happy to see that so many schools are beginning to embrace technology and use it as the powerful tool that it really can be.