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#JEDchat on "Flipping" Classrooms (Khan Academy concept)

As mentioned in the Jewish Futures Conference the JFNA General Assembly, a recent #JEDchat on Twitter focused on flipping classrooms, inspired (in part) by the work of the Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org) Have you tried flipping your classroom? What do you think of the idea? What might be the impacts for Jewish learning, connecting the classroom with the home?

Some resources:
AVI CHAI Foundation blog post on the first #JEDchat
http://avichai.org/2011/11/tweeting-all-jewish-educators-jedchat

Archive of the Twitter chats: http://jedchat.wikispaces.com/JEDCHAT+Archives

Background on flipping classrooms:

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-ramsey-musallam

http://yu20.org/group/flipped-classroom

Some Jewish educators doing it:

Rabbi Meir Wexler

On Twitter: @RabbiWex

Khan Academy TED Talk

Tags: #JEDchat, #JFNAGA, #JewishFutures, Academy, Khan, classroom, flipped

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Permalink Reply by Caren Levine on November 7, 2011 at 6:46am

I'm loving the #jedchat meet ups on twitter! It's great to hang out with colleagues, new and old. (New to #jedchat? I posted some background here)

I've been thinking about how, in addition to the classroom, the flipped classroom idea can be used for professional development. I've recently taken two online workshops for educators that takes advantage of the flipped model, giving us opportunities to dig more deeply in a collaborative way in real time when we meet online.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Colton on November 17, 2011 at 10:53am

Another fascinating article- why Khan is like Andrew Carnegie -- in Time : http://ti.me/sw6Ro2

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Permalink Reply by Reyzl Geselowitz on December 20, 2011 at 12:02pm

This teacher did a ton of research on flipped classrooms, and she links to a bunch of resources and articles: http://www.coetail.asia/marypkfish/2011/12/15/flipping-out/