Using a "discussion starter" approach, the teacher introduces a topic or assignment and then steps aside to allow the students to become the teacher. This article moves beyond exchanging classroom lectures and traditional homework for student watched lectures or videos outside the classroom to free up time for interaction inside the classroom. The traditional lecture format has been used so long that both faculty and students sometimes struggle shifting to a more engaging approach to teaching and learning. Flipped classrooms are transformational, shifting the educational focus from the traditional and passive lecture-based teaching to an active engagement of students with each other and with faculty. Students become more meaningfully engaged when they are creating rather than merely receiving knowledge in either a synchronous or asynchronous learning environment. Asynchronous groups require the same interpersonal skills and effective communication processes. It is a myth that synchronous group work is more meaningful or a more productive environment for student learning. This approach also works in fully distance-enabled classes where there is no in-class time individually or within interactive small-groups and teaching both take place asynchronously on-line. The creativity involved in the students learning while teaching is enhanced through the use of digital storytelling technologies (e.g., Photo Story 3, Movie Maker, and iMovie). Not only are homework and lecture sessions flipped, students create, or "construct" knowledge outside of class and present to others through group learning activities. ![]() Going beyond the recent surge of papers on the flipped classroom, this article calls for an active "constructionist" approach to flipping classrooms.
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