Flipped Classroom for Education

Flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning environment by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom. It moves activities, including those that may have traditionally been considered homework, into the classroom. In a flipped classroom, students watch online lectures, collaborate in online discussions, or carry out research at home and engage in concepts in the classroom with the guidance of a mentor.

source: slu.edu

Traditional vs flipped teaching

In the traditional model of classroom instruction, the teacher is typically the central focus of a lesson and the primary disseminator of information during the class period. The teacher responds to questions while students defer directly to the teacher for guidance and feedback. In a classroom with a traditional style of instruction, individual lessons may be focused on an explanation of content utilizing a lecture-style. Student engagement in the traditional model may be limited to activities in which students work independently or in small groups on an application task designed by the teacher. Class discussions are typically centered on the teacher, who controls the flow of the conversation. Typically, this pattern of teaching also involves giving students the task of reading from a textbook or practicing a concept by working on a problem set, for example, outside school.

The flipped classroom intentionally shifts instruction to a learner-centered model in which class time explores topics in greater depth and creates meaningful learning opportunities, while educational technologies such as online videos are used to deliver content outside of the classroom. In a flipped classroom, content delivery may take a variety of forms. Often, video lessons prepared by the teacher or third parties are used to deliver content, although online collaborative discussions, digital research, and text readings may be used.

Flipped classrooms also redefine in-class activities. In-class lessons accompanying flipped classroom may include activity learning or more traditional homework problems, among other practices, to engage students in the content. Class activities vary but may include: using math manipulatives and emerging mathematical technologies, in-depth laboratory experiments, original document analysis, debate or speech presentation, current event discussions, peer reviewing, project-based learning, and skill development or concept practice. Because these types of active learning allow for highly differentiated instruction, more time can be spent in class on higher-order thinking skills such as problem-finding, collaboration, design and problem solving as students tackle difficult problems, work in groups, research, and construct knowledge with the help of their teacher and peers. Flipped classrooms have been implemented in both schools and colleges and been found to have varying differences in the method of implementation.

A teacher's interaction with students in a flipped classroom can be more personalized and less didactic, and students are actively involved in knowledge acquisition and construction as they participate in and evaluate their learning.

Educational Technologies

1.       Social Technologies

• Diigo - better reading and research with annotation, knowledge sharing community
• Edmodo - global education network, helps connect all learners with the people and resources needed to reach to reach their full potential
• Edublogs - largest education blogging platform on the web
• Facebook - connect with friends, family and other peoples you know
• Google+ - is a place to connect with friends and family, and explore
• Grockit - continually learns as you learn, and targets you with the material you need to work on most
• Instagram - sign up to see photos and videos from your friends
• Linkedin - networking tool to find connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners
• Ning - an online service to create, customize, and share a social network
• Openstudy.com/Openstudy.org - ask, answer and understand, get real-time study help
• Pinterest - content sharing service, it allows members to 'pin' images, videos and other objects to their pinboard
• Quora - the best answer to any question
• Scoop.it - build your online presence by publishing content
• Skype - free calls, collaboration, expert interviews, enable participation, tutoring, virtual career and group projects with extracurricular activities 
• Slideshare - discover, share and present, the future of work, cultivating the next generation of leaders
• Twitter - connect with your friends and other fascinating people. get in the moment updates on the things that interest you and watch events unfold, in real time from every angle
• Wikispaces - a free wiki host providing community wiki spaces, visual page editing and discussion areas

2.       Online Learning Technologies

• Animoto - make great videos, easily
• BDPA - education: from the classroom to the boardroom
• Coursera - take the world's best courses, online
• Eduvee - learn and practice (science)
• edX - best courses, top institutions. learn anytime from anywhere
• Kerpoof - learning works for kid
• Khanacademy - you can learn anything for free, for everyone and forever
• Knewton - a path for every student
• Mooc - massive open online courses; educational institutions, businesses and teachers easily build and host courses for the world to take
• SchoolTube - the best videos from student and teachers everywhere
• Skills Genius - collection of song lyrics and crowdsourced musical knowledge  
• Socrative - your classroom app for fun and effective classroom engagement
• StudySync - cross-curricular, core literacy solution with video and multimedia lessions.
• Udacity - free online courses, make a career change, or get a new job by completing a Nanodegree program
• Udemy - online learning and teaching marketplace

3.       Multimedia Technologies

• Bitstrips - your own personal emoji; wherever you go, your avatar is now just a click away! Easily insert bitmojis into gmail, messenger, slack, virtually anywhere you communicate on the web.
• eduCanon - unleash interactive video, deeply engage learners and accountably measure understanding
• Evernote - capture what's on your mind; collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms
• Pixlr - A free online image editor. Enables to fix, adjust, and filter images in a browser.
• Planboard - online lesson planner, add curriculum sets and organize your schedule
• Prezi - presentation software, uses motion, zoom and spatial relationships to bring your ideas to life and make your a great presenter
• Quizlet - makes simple learning tools that let you study anything; flashcards, games and learning tools
• Rubistar - tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics; rubric means "a scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of students' 
• Screencast-O-Matic - tool to create and share screen recordings
• TED-Ed - build a lesson around any TED-Ed original, TED Talk or youtube video
• Thinglink - annotate image and videos
• Padlet - digital canvas to create beautiful projects and easiest way to share and collaborate in the world
• Wordle - toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide
• Youtube - enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with with friends, family, and the world on youtube
• Vimeo - high quality tool for hosting, sharing and streaming videos in gorgeous HD and 4K with no ads

4.       Coding Technologies

• Code Avengers - code games, apps and websites with fun and effective interactive games. html, css and javascript tutorials for beginners 
• Code.org - student creations, anybody can learn code/programming languages
• Hour of Code - one hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code" learn the basics and to broden
• Kodable - basics of computer programming
• Minecraft - free games online
• Raspberry pi - learn computer programming through fun and practical projects
• Scratch - programming language and online community, where you can create your own interactive stories, games and animations
• W3Schools - the languages for building web pages

5.       Classroom Technologies

• Book Creator - create beautiful books on your tablet
• Camtasia - screen recorder and video editor
• Canva - amazingly simple graphic design software
• Class messenger - teacher, students, and parents notes about field trips, homework assignments or a dance chaperone 
• ClassDojo - build wonderful classroom communities with parents and students 
• Doceri - authoring and controlling presentation 
• Doodle - scheduling tool you'll actually use. find a date for a meeting 2x faster!
• Dropbox - get to all your files from anywhere, on any device, and share them with anyone
• edShelf - a socially-curated discovery enging of websites, mobile apps, desktop programs, and electronic products for teaching and learning 
• ePals - connect, communicate and collaborate
• Explain Everything - collaborative and interactive whiteboard
• Google Apps - google apps for work is a suite of cloud computing productivity and collaboration software tools and software tools offered on a subscription basis by google
• Groupboard - free online whiteboard and chat app that can be easily embedded into your website
• iBeacons - dedicated source for news, analysis, and commentary on proximity and hyperlocal technology
• iKeepSafe - learn how to keep safe online, so everybody can take full advantage of all the wonderful collaborative learning opportuties 
• iRubric - comprehensive rubric development, assessment and sharing tool 
• Jing - free screenshot and screen cast software
• Kidblog - provides teachers with tools to help students publish writing safely online. students exercise digital citizenship within a secure classroom blogging space. teachers can monitor all activity within their blogging community 
• LiveBinders - organize your resources in an online digital binders
• Mastery Connect - it acquires socrative to bring you integrated student response fo for free. it is a smart student response system that empowers teachers
• iMovie - video editing software
• Office 365 - your office alternatives
• OneNote - digital note taking apps for your device
• Osmo - osmo is an award-wining game system that will change the way your child interacts with the iPad by opening it up to hands-on play 
• Pikochart - web-based infographic application which allows users without intensive experience as graphic designers to easily create professional grade infographics using themed templates
• Pinkmonkey - study resource for junior high, high school, college students, teachers and home schoolers 
• Popplet - popplet is a tool for the iPad and web to capture and organize your ideas
• QR Codes - QR codes for teaching and learning
• Remind - latest news, media reports and announcements
• Rubister - free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics 
• Schoology - learning management system
• Showme - create beautiful tutorials with the tip of your finger
• Skitch - get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become really faster  
• Slack - a messaging app for teams who put robots on mars
• Storify - make the web tell a story: the tools to create the best evergreen and live blog the stories uniting traditional storytelling with engaged audience 
• Stumbleupon - easiest way to discover new and interesting web pages, photos and videos across the web 
• Videonot.es - all the notes you type are automatically synchronized with the video. later, just click on a line for the video to jump to the relevant part 
• Wordpress - web software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog or app with priceless effort 

6.       Hardware Technologies

• iPad - IPad is an iOS based line of tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc 
• Chromobook - a laptop running chrome OS as its operating system 
• MacBook - a brand of notebook computer mfg by Apple Inc
• Android - a mobile operating system developed by google, based on the linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices 
• Iso - international organization for standardization
• IWBs - interactive whiteboard; a large interactive display that connects to a computer. a projector projects the computer's desktop onto the board's surface 
• Apple TV - a digital media player and a microconsole developed and sold by Apple Inc. it is a small network appliance and entertainment device that can receive digital data from a number of sources and stream it to a capable television 

7.       Education Conference

• All Conference Alert - academic conferences worldwide
• AIEA - Association for International Education Administrators
• ASCD - a global community of educators dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching and leading 
• ASUGSV - revolution in corporate learning
• BETT - the world's leading education technology event 
• BIE - project based learning
• CUE Conf - ed tech professional development begins with CUE and our conferences, workshops and symposiums 
• DML - digital media and learning research hub is to advance research in the service of a more equitable, participatory, and effective ecosystem of learning keyed to the digital and networked era 
• Excel in Ed - to build an american education system that equips every child to achieve his or her god-given potential 
• Edcamp - an organic, participant-driven professional learning experience. a community created by educators, for educators. the leading edge of professional development in educationEdNET
• EdTech Europe - is the leading thought leader summit bringing together executive level investors, innovators and industry influencers from European and international education companies
• EdTech Teacher - digital storytelling in classroom 
• Education Innovation Summit - WISE is an international, multi-sectoral platform for creative thinking, debate and purposeful action
• Educon - global engineering education conference
• FETC - future of educational technology conference
• GESF - global education and skill forum
• Global Educational Conferences - connecting educators and organizations worldwide
• Inacol - is an international nonprofit transforming education to student-centered learning
• Integrated - IEEE integrated stem education conference
• ISTE - international society for technology in education
• Learn Launch/Learnlunch - driving innovation to transform learning
• Learning and Brain - educational psychologist
• Miami Device - mobile learning events
• New Schools - nonprofit venture philanthropy working to transform public education
• OEB - cross sector conference on technology supported learning and training
• PBL world - project based learning
• ST4T - audio resources for cross cultural communication
• Summit - summit professional education
• SXSWedu - conference & festival fosters innovation in learning by hosting a passionate and diverse community of education stakeholders 
• WISE - 

Libraries in developed countries are using most of these technologies and are visible on their websites. But in developing and underdeveloped countries many library professionals are not aware and trained about using these technologies. we should use ourselves and prefer to use others to provide global education with quality for all.

source: wikipedia, ijaers