Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

Via Benoit Anger and Thomas Roulet, comes this pretty useful infographic on the increasingly-famous "flipped classroom" model promoted by, among others, Khan Academy's Sal Khan: (More below.) What's ...

Michael F. Ruffini, a professor of educational technology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, provides an explanation of the flipped classroom and its alternative, which offers the best of the ...

"If you were to step into one of my classrooms, you'd think I was teaching a kindergarten class, not a physics class," laughs Harvard University (MA) professor Eric Mazur. "Not because the students ...

Teachers at Clintondale High School send students home with lectures on video. The next day they tackle what would normally be considered homework together in class. The new model is called a ...

Editor’s note: Greg Green is the principal at Clintondale High School in Clinton Township, Michigan. His guest post on this blog titled “My View: Flipped classrooms give every student a chance to ...

Although an instructional video can be a valuable tool, is this current focus on the flip being made at the expense of other technologies that should play a role in instruction? Certainly, if ...

What are best practices to make a flipped classroom model work? I have to say that I have absolutely no experience with a flipped classroom (the term commonly used to describe the practice of having ...

Humberto Urrutia took a closer look at the back of the life-size bust of Batman he had created in an art class at Yakima Valley College. “This is for my kids,” he said of the clay sculpture as ...

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