No to Flipped Learning

With the integration of technologies into K-12 and college classrooms, Stanford researchers at the Graduate School of Education warn us that while the idea of Flipped Classrooms is gaining momentum, it’s important to continue with hands-on learning. Exploration should, according to the research, come before reading a text or watching a video rather than, as in flipped classrooms, after.  In the Stanford study, students were much better able to understand what they were learning if they had the opportunity to explore on their own. Paulo Blikstein, the assistant professor of Education who directed the research, commented, “In this study, we are showing that research in education is useful because sometimes our intuitions about ‘what works’ are simply dead wrong.”