Posted on 05/04/2012 12:14:08 PM PDT by MichCapCon
Technology enables schools to rethink the way that they deliver instruction to students, and a recent phenomenon that’s catching on is called “flipping the classroom.”
It works by having students receive direct instruction — often via online videos — outside of the classroom, enabling teachers to devote more time to collaboration, project-based learning, developing critical thinking skills and mentoring students individually.
Clintondale High School in Metropolitan Detroit has flipped all of its classrooms, and may be the first school in Michigan to do so.
Based on just their short experience with this model, it appears to be a remarkable success. According to Principal Greg Green, since exclusively using the flipped classroom, the school has dropped their failure rates for freshmen in English from 52 percent to 19 percent, in math from 44 percent to 13 percent, in science from 41 percent to 19 percent and in social studies from 28 percent to 9 percent. And this is a school that one might reasonably expect to have higher than average failure rates, since 70 percent of it students come from low-income households.
For more information about Clintondale High School’s story, see the video below...
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“IF this comes to pass, it would make sense to cut back the number of days students are required to be in a physical classroom with the goal being one or two days a week where the students can go to a classroom to ask questions, receive personal mentoring, and take exams while the majority of coursework would be done at home.”
Why ANY days at school? Proctored tests (and preferably entirely different tests) could be administered/taken in any local Elks lodge! Either find another use for the school buildings or raze them. Questions are as easily answered onscreen as inhouse. Once the teacher’s obsolete (and that happened a long time ago), all the federal/state/county education adjuncts are equally obsolete.
My observation...from the 1970’s atmosphere.
Around fifteen percent of all kids really don’t need a teacher more than three hours a week. You can hand workbooks out, give out five hours of homework per day, toss in History Channel-like DVDs to watch, and this group of fifteen percent will easily graduate by age 16 from any high school achievement test.
Around sixty percent of all kids need two full days of teacher instruction per week...with various homework projects inbetween, video-teleconferening when they run into problems, and they could all wrap up school by age 18.
The final group? The twenty-five percent group? They need massive coaching....day-in...day-out. Forget anything less than full class attendance and massive coaching.
The true answer is that we aren’t using our teaching manpower in the right fashion. Teachers hate my analysis of this because the gifted students really don’t want or need that much help. So teachers get stuck with the smaller group of screwed-up kids and putting in man-hours to bring them along. The positive side is that you could operate a classroom with twelve of these kids, and they might advance faster.
That’s very interesting.
The public schools know their factory designed model of education is not working anymore.
They know kids can learn without them with computer programs with only guidance from an adult who understands the material if they reach a block. Alot of computer program classrooms come with a human to help the child if they get stuck in a lesson. But the computer lessons are a million times more proficient than today’s teachers and zooy classrooms.
So they are trying to give the public school teachers and system a new role as “mentor” for the students with individual attention. Computer classrooms are going to be the way of the future for most education through college and the unions are trying to hang on to their gig through the transformation.
And parents are going to go along with this? They’ll go to their jobs during the day and at night they’ll do what the teacher should be doing during the day?
Good luck with that. Parents are going to figure out pretty quickly that if they are the ones who are going to do the heavy lifting at home, they certainly aren’t going to pay taxes to support teachers who are going to “supervise homework.”
They might as well pull their kids out and homeschool them.
This sounds to me like the educational continuum is moving in the direction of homeschooling. Many of the parents you describe in your scenario will end up homeschooling altogether, as it’s not much of stretch. They will realize they can educate their kids as well or better without the “school.”
Exactly.
It took John Dewey and his Socialist apostles 80 years to brainwash parents to think of “teachers” as being other than parents. The best teachers and most important teachers of children should be the parents. Brilliant people who were based in individualism were homeschooled-—not conditioned and brainwashed (and humiliated) in the Prussian system designed for mass conformity —to conform to the Marxist ideology where you are only allowed to think one way (sodomy is good, there is no God, Right and Wrong are relative, The Bible is myth, Evolution is true, Atheism is intellectually superior, etc.) All to destroy Virtue and Goodness in the child and confuse them, so they can never think logically, with reason and intellect. They are taught emotional responses—to let the emotions rule their world—and ditch intellectual pursuit (maturity). All past true knowledge of the Ancient Greeks, Locke, Adam Smith, Founders, Thomas Reid are eliminated, so there is no understanding or critical discussions of ideology. Children are told what to think by the Al Gore’s brainwashing/conditioning movies which twist facts and reality and glorify evil.
There is emotional and character development—crucial to the development of a “Virtuous” society essential for Freedom—only instilled by loving, concerned parents or family, which was destroyed by the curricula of moral relativism and socialism that Dewey injected into the curricula to get strangers to “mold” the “plastic minds” of the child. They intentionally destroyed curricula—destroyed phonics to deliberately create American children who were considered “dyslexic”—something deliberately created in the 30’s to cover up the deliberate destruction of logic and reason in schools and blame it on the genetics of family—or the home. Prior to the manipulation of curricula by Dewey, the Black family had a literacy rate of 90%. We are talking about a time of Jim Crow. The poor were the ones to first be destroyed by the forced public school educational system.
Parents need to take control over the education of their children and not “trust” strangers or just those “certified” by the Marxist government. They need to burn all the “approved” public school curricula which is destroying the worldview of our children and making them into “useful idiots”. It is intentional—by the Department of “Education”. It is documented by many people—including BK EAkman and John Taylor Gatto and thousands of books in the 1980’s-—Why Johnny Can’t Read—was based on facts.
“Cheaper and far more efficient.”
That’s what I expected, then discovered my daughter’s distance education (online) university classes cost more than if she’d taken them on campus. I was aghast that they were hundreds of dollars more with a slew of fees tacked on, including fees for services only used by on campus students. She watched videos online and did her exams online. It should have been a fraction of the cost.
The liberals want to take better care of illegals, criminals and such than the tax paying general public.
Healthy competition among peers is a powerful motivator for learning. Without that element, online learning can fall flat. Kids are naturally competitive and they like to win and impress their parents. The reason many kids drop out of school is they always lose, all because they are in the wrong league. With the internet, everyone can find their league and everyone can be a winner, at least some of the time if they try. We can maximize learning that way.
About Call of Duty type 3D games, there are some superhuman memory methods that rely on storing knowledge in a 3D map visualized in the mind. Humans are good at 3D memory from our hunter/gatherer days. A learning video game that has the student walk around in a 3D virtual world may reinforce knowledge retention. They can think back and walk through their memory. The days of union hirelings serving up a crappy socialist education are coming to an end!
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