Flipping the Classroom

I can see "flipping" the classroom working in math, but at the same time I can also see it not. The article makes it sound so great and wonderful, but I'm just not sure how it would work out in real practice. The reason I say this is because of my work with college students and many of the 100 level college math courses. It really comes down to how motivated the students are.

One in specific is MAT142 here at ASU which is a "hybrid" class where all the material is online but the students have class time to ask questions to the Professor and Instructor's Assistant(me). The class had mixed reviews from students but as I could tell only the students that were truly motivated to learn did well in the class.

I really like the idea and how they have it laid out, I really think I could do some very interesting things with it and it work out great, but I don't think I would want/need to do it for everything. I'm not the type of person to keep to a set schedule or routine, I need some chaos in my life or I just get bored. And bored Eric is not good.

In the end I think I'll end up doing the "flipping" for certain lessons or units preferably. Some things just won't be very exciting and just boring and tedious with not much material to cover; that is just how math is sometimes, and in those I'll probably keep it to the classroom.

Integrating Technology into the Classroom

So instead of plagiarizing a great little site I found;

http://teachers.redclay.k12.de.us/pamela.waters/math/fetc/index.htm

It says everything I could think of when I want to use technology in the classroom.