Does classic frontal teaching still meet today's increasingly digital learning needs? Less is more and offers additional space for creativity. Above all, digital media, which can additionally enrich the lessons, are used in Future no more teachers or lecturers come by.

How Flipped Classroom improves learning: Classes and digital media belong together
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Digital learning on the advance

In recent years there have been a number of developments that have made the digital Things to Learn make more and more important. Of course, this also included Corona, especially in Germany clear made how much digital learning models were missing.

At the same time, appealing instruction would be required, which leaves no one overstrained. Innovative learning models that increasingly integrate digital media into their methodologies, for example, in the form of individualized learning videos, can help to make the short learning period more productive and to increase the interest in learning. Today, teaching and digital media belong together.

Flipped or inverted classroom - what exactly is it?

Flipped classroom or inverted classroom refers to a teaching method of integrated learning in which the homework and the teaching of the material are exchanged insofar as the learning content is worked out by the learners at home and is used in the classroom.

With the "Flipped Classroom" model, for example, the teaching content is made available to the pupils and students, already in Preparation to the lesson with the teacher or lecturer, for example through videos.

Teachers have more time to go to students

Numerous teachers and lecturers that I know personally have described their positive experiences with this teaching concept. Above all, the time gained in class that you can use for the meeting or deepening a specific topic or question, they see it as positive.

The teachers have more time on the individual Problems responded to each and loved how this affected the Motivation affects their pupils and students.

Students can work independently and creatively at home

When independently working on given topics at home, schoolchildren and students can let off steam creatively in the flipped classroom model and develop their potential.

After the Concept is already being used successfully in many cases in the USA, I am sure for surethat German schools and universities will increasingly follow this path.

Successful examples from the US: diarrhea rate decreased considerably

Because the Success does not stay away. The example of a school in Michigan shows how the rate of failing students fell sharply in the first year after the introduction of the flipped classroom concept.

In English, for example, the rate dropped from 52 to 19 percent, in mathematics from 44 to 13 percent. This shows that this new way of learning really involves considerable progress.

The right choice of tools

The decisive factor is that it is primarily the methodology that counts, not so much the one selection of tools and Methods – subjective. All software leads to Rome. As long as you know you want to go to Rome. Setting your own knowledge goals is the key to achieving the felt Information prevent overload.

It's all about Background to collect, process and present. This is how you learn step by step how to deal with new technologies and to understand them. In this way you can motivate yourself and others again and again.