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The school is changing quickly: students have cognitive rhythms and learning styles different than in the past, the tools for learning are strongly influenced by the advent of digital and new technologies for teaching require innovative methodologies based on the idea of competence cross more than on the traditional curriculum content.
The “flipped” approach to teaching has become particularly attractive because of the availability of internet resources including audio and video on virtually any subject, frequently narrated by some of the world’s outstanding authorities. And the approach seems to have singular appeal to students in this electronic age where videos in particular have found a special place in the heart of the “Awesome Generation.” In the flipped classroom model, what is normally done in class and what is normally done as homework is switched or flipped. Instead of students listening to a lecture on, say, chemistry in class and then going home to work on a set of assigned problems, they read material and view videos on chemistry before coming to class and then engage in class in active learning using case studies, labs, games, simulations, or experiments. A guiding principle of the flipped classroom is that work typically done as homework (e.g., problem solving, essay writing) is better undertaken in class with the guidance of the instructor. Listening to lecture or watching videos is better accomplished at home.