Category: K12
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The Lobster Connection
Friday, May 3rd, 2013. I’m in Scarborough Middle School, Maine, US. A banner across the entrance hall reads ‘You Are Now Entering THE KINDNESS ZONE’, a caution for bullies to take a break, I’m told. I’m here with Sarah Morriseau from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute to visit Mrs. B’s science…
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Flipped Learning in the UK – Two Examples
A BLOG POST BY KARI ARFSTROM PhD, Executive Director of the Flipped Learning Network As a Fellow of the OER Research Hub Project at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, I had the incredible opportunity to visit for two weeks in September, 2013. The Project and Fellowship program is supported…
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Flipped or flipped open?
PHOTO: CC-BY B. de los Arcos Claire Walker and I were scheduled to present at FlipCon13 last Wednesday, June 18th. Sadly, we never made it, as this silly Spaniard single-handedly decided it would be better fun to visit the local hospital, and not exactly to research their use of OER,…
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About flipped learning
Picture this: you are a Chemistry teacher in a school in Colorado; it’s Friday and you give kids a test; some kid fails, what do you do on Monday? You move on –“I’m sorry kid, I hope you can figure it out between now and the next test”. It sounds…