Flipped Classroom

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With advanced technology constantly being developed, society had to adapt in order for people to keep up with the changes. An example of this would be the classroom lecture. Normally, the classroom lecture would be traditional, which would have a professor presenting the material in a classroom. However, with so many technology being used every day, a flipped classroom was being implemented in some schools. A flipped classroom involves students watching lectures at home before meeting face to face, so that exercises and discussions can be done during class. Due to each lecture types being different, the topic being discussed will be about the pros and cons of the traditional and flipped classrooms. To begin, the pros about the traditional classroom will be discussed first. In a traditional classroom, students benefit from this learning method because the material being taught is more focused on the important topics. The reason for that is because professors want to provide the students with essential material that will help them in the future. Another benefit is that the traditional method teaches students responsibility. Deciding whether to go to class …show more content…

The student’s responsibility to go to class can be a con, especially if students don’t give an effort to go to class. This results in the student’s chance of failing the course. The discussions can backfire due to some students avoiding interacting with either the professor or other students, because of their passiveness. Also, if there are no discussions and the professor just lectures throughout the entire lecture, many students will lose interest and wander off, or even worse, not attending class overall. Having laptops or other electronic devices can be a con due to the fact that students are tempted to play games or surf the web. This affects other students as well because they tend to glance at what’s on the screen and become

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