The Flipped Education System

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The education system is a system that will constantly be improving with time. One of the newer ways of learning is through a system called the Flipped Learning system. The system is described as any classroom setting with a pre-recorded video that is used outside of the classroom to help students learn. CMU writing courses should use the flipped classroom model for many reasons. Students learn in many different ways and for some it can be hard at at times very frustrating. With the flipped classroom model, the students will be given the freedom to learn in their own desired setting. Those who find it difficult to learn in the school setting might have a short attention span and they might find it hard to stay tuned in on class lectures and …show more content…

This is a benefit for the students and the teachers. The teachers will spend less time going over questions that the students have because they will be able to rewatch and rewind and fastforward the videos so they can understand the material properly. Not only will this save time but it will also cut down on the distractions in the classroom. Question asking in the classroom may not sound like a distraction but more of learning tactic, but it can be a distraction to students who already know what they are doing and it can cause more confusion and chaos if too many questions are being asked at once. If the students are allowed to watch the video until they understand the lecture then their will be less confusion and less question asking. This will also save time because the teachers won’t be repeating themselves all the time because when the students go into the classroom they will already have a pretty good understanding of the …show more content…

In the video from Sal khan, he talks about his program and company called Khan Academy. Khan Academy is a program that Mr. Khan made to put his videos on. The program also generates exercises that quizzes the users on the material they just learned. The program isn't only student friendly, but it is also teacher and professor friendly. The teachers can sign in and look at the amount of work that the students have completed and they can even see the scores they got on their quizzes. Khan also states that his program “arms the teachers with as much data as it can”. The teachers can go in and not only see the scores but they can see all of exercises that the student is proficient in, stuck on, or what they are working on. This will allow the teacher to get that student who is struggling more than others as much help as possible. For CMU classes, this can help the professors keep track of their students work easier and it can help the professor see what they need to go over more in future classes. This will also give the professors the ability to help the students who ask for help. If the student asks for help, the professor will be able to go through and see what it is that the student is struggling on and it could help them come up with a way to help them through their

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