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TVarnum · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

What are the characteristics of effective learning tasks?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Discuss the four pillars of flipped classrooms (FLIP) in terms of the ways they shape instruction.

What will be an ideal response?

ambernicolefink · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Focus on goals; include technology that is working and available; include teacher training and support; allow time to learn relevant technologies provides needed resources; use technology only if appropriate.

Answer to Question 2

Answers vary and include:Flexible learning environments (students choose when and where they learn, teachers allow for flexible learning and assessment timelines, and measure progress in ways that aremost meaningful for them and their students); Learning culture shift (transition from objectivist to more constructivist principles, and students' have active involvement in choosing their own learning and assessmentpaths); Intentional content (teachers continually analyze content for what should be in videos as opposed to classroom activities, and select instructional methods such as problem-based learning (PBL), mastery learning, or Socratic methods); Professional educators (teacher have indispensable role of teachers and are reflective and collaborative and know how to accept criticism that can improve their practice)