Flipped Learning

Tonight in class we got a little preview into Prezi presentations. Professor Ross created a Prezi that took us throughout different parts of an animated classroom and taught us all about blended or flipped learning. I can honestly say that I had never heard of flipped learning until tonight. It is interesting to think that teaching styles are changing so dramatically to adapt to society's new dependencies on technology. I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about flipped learning but I also feel as though it is something a teacher should try out for themselves to see if it works for them and their students. For example, I do not really think that I would base all of my lesson plans around flipped learning however, I do feel as though it would be helpful when teaching or learning math. I say this from experience because I remember when I took pre calculus in high school I constantly felt lost in class. My teacher went through all the different equations and processes much faster than I could keep up with and spent very little time reviewing the homework the next day in class. If she had created videos in which she was teaching the same lesson I would have been able to pause the video and watch her go through the math problem as many times as I needed and gone into class the next day with specific questions on the topic being taught. I am curious about one thing however...I would be interested to see how parents felt about flipped learning. I feel as though a decent amount of parents would not be able to accept the new teaching style and criticize teachers that they are requiring students to teach themselves the material!
Looking a little further into flipped learning, we also learned how to create detailed tuturials for our students to follow using Sophia. Along with flipped learning, I had never heard of Sophia before tonight in class and I feel as though it is interesting that there are websites made specifically for teachers and flipped learning. I'm excited to work on my tutorial this week because I feel as though it is a more extensive lesson plan that incorporate technology.