Blooms and the Flipped Classroom

Next Generation Extension

Yesterday during our discussion about the next 100 years of Extension, the flipped classroom came up in the discussion. While thinking about this last night, I thought perhaps everyone would benefit from a visual that Beth Williams, high school business teacher, used during her presentation last summer at NNNC in Norfolk. This image does a great job of capturing the theory behind the flipped classroom in relationship to Blooms taxonomy.

Here’s the basics: The flipped classroom is a pedagogical concept where the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed.  Many times educators (teachers) record the lecture materials and post them to the internet where learners access them prior to attending face-to-face meetings (classes).  This allows educators to maximize the quality of the time they have in face-to-face meetings (classes).

FlippedClassroom Image: Williams, Beth (2013). How I flipped my classroom. NNNC Conference, Norfolk, NE.

While there are several instances…

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