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Flipped learning was a new concept for me when I started studying here at TEC, on the other hand, having been abroad in Germany for almost a year served me as my first experience as to what these “lectures” were really about.
I have to agree, they really kinda suck most of the time, as a friend of mine put it, it’s like trying to drink water from a fire hose. It’s just too much too fast I’d have to say; they’re unengaging, and mostly it doesn’t even make much sense to go to the lecture because you might as well just pick up the book and read it yourself, at your own pace, from the comfort of your house or with a study group. That’s why I have to agree with the blogs I read, altough as they said, not all of them are incredibly horrendous.
From time to time a teacher comes along with cool ideas to catch the students’ attention, the way he presents the topic can really help or damper a lecture, but sadly this is really the exeption.
Now here at TEC more and more of my classes are breaking the mold and trying to teach us in a different way. Sure, sometimes experimenting doesn’t work the first time, but at the end of the day it’s worth it. I mean it might not work because flipped learning requieres more imput from the student I think. You have to be interested in doing it, otherwise the class won’t go anywhere, whereas in a lecture it doesn’t even matter if you attend it or not. Sometimes it might not work because after all, we need some time to adjust to the new changes and don´t really know what´s expected from us, say in an
for example.
But when this is overcome, I really think flipped learning is the way to go. It’s just more fun and personal, which can really affect our motivations and determinations towards properly understanding any topic, boring as it may be. Also we’re social beings, we learn form interactions with others, by asking and answering questions as a group, not because we have to in order to get a good grade, but because we want to learn, we want to know.
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