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Flipped Classrooms vs Stem Education

Flipped classrooms turning STEM education upside down

Given the difficult-to-digest subject matter in many STEM classrooms, educators have customarily relied on traditional lecture-based educational methods where they spend class time walking through content and then assign homework problems to supplement that learning. The problem is that this is a difficult way for some students to learn, so educators applying a new approach by flipping their classrooms. Ref. Source 4v.

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While I appreciate the efforts of this one professor, I still think that she is off the mark.

We have, in the United States, for years been using a series of models introduced by the Industrial Revolution. With the use of assembly lines and conveyors, production lines were able to guarantee that products were uniform and nearly flawless. This was applied to education, with emphasis on mass output of "Educated' individuals.

What is lacking from most education today is a focus on the learning style or styles of an individual. Learning Styles Explained

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Lesson learned? Massive study finds lectures still dominate STEM education. An analysis of more than 2,000 college classes in science, technology, engineering and math has found that 55 percent of STEM classroom interactions consisted mostly of conventional lecturing -- a style that prior research has identified as among the least effective at teaching and engaging students. Source 5e.