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Flipped Classroom Model: Why, How, and Overview

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This article is part of the Social Interaction in Schools Guide . Learn all about Social Interaction Skills in Education , Student to Student Interaction , and Teacher to Student Interaction .

Overview of Student to Student interaction

Benefits of a student to student interaction

Student-to-student interaction increases in importance each day and now more than ever when the pandemic affected everyone. Students are in their growing years and knowing they can interact with people of an appropriate age helps them create a community of themselves.

- Positive impact on learning

- It helps develop a deeper thinking

Characteristics of classes with low student-student classroom interaction

The teacher organises the class very well, presents the topic so clearly that there is no need for questions and interruptions and usually covers all questions that may arise.

More than just the teacher's knowledge of the subject, the teaching style does not give a chance for discussions.

Characteristics of classes with high student-student classroom interaction

They either split the class in group discussions or have whole-class conversations.

While the class size matters a lot for these discussions, the teacher's availability to support these discussions and help students take the correct information out of them is also essential.

Moreover, subjects matter as there are those topics that have more than just one answer. And generating various solutions leads to deeper thinking and increases the capacity for analysing.

Student collaboration activities

There are many activities for student collaboration, and some of them are:

- group projects

- group case studies

- peer instruction

- role playing

- synchronous or asynchronous discussions or debates

- collaborative brainstorming

Pair or group discussions

Pair and group discussions can help students develop their communication skills. They work as a group to make presentations, brainstorm and communicate. More than just helping them with their communication skills, it also helps them respect others' opinions, take turns when talking, listen to what each person says, and give input on the conversation.

Completing shared tasks in a pair or group

Tasks within a group can take more time but can reach better results.

Information exchange activities

Sharing information in a discussion activity is excellent for motivating students to know what happens in other groups. This can contribute to their discussion panels and start a new topic in their group.

Strategies for encouraging Student to Student interaction

There are many reasons student-to-student interactions bring only benefits. For example, the discussions that take place in smaller groups emphasise individual accountability, positive interdependence, and positive interaction in grading the group's work (P. A. Kirschner et al., (2004), CSCL in Higher Education )

Begin the course with an introduction discussion

An introduction discussion helps students see the general idea of the topic and immediately make connections with what they know and what are their curiosities.

Provide guidelines for respectful, productive, and meaningful interactions

Guidelines help shape the path of the discussions. While guidelines do not tell you what to say, they hint at the topic and help you have a starting point. In any situation, having a clear way toward what you expect brings peace of mind and eases stress.

Student-student interaction in online learning environments

The community of learners does not stop at the in-class studies. It goes beyond this, and the online environment is just as good in student-to-student in-class interaction.

The flexible online classes help students save a lot of time, which counts a lot. Especially since they use this time for extracurricular activities like sports or other passions.

Begin with an Icebreaker

Icebreakers help students know each other. It can mean

- Introducing oneself

- Sharing photos

- Sharing their passions

Incorporate Group Work

Forming groups and starting to work together allows students to get to know each other. While at first groups may be a challenge, as far as teh work is well structured and the idea behind it is clear, the group work becomes fun.

Open Multiple Communication Channels

The advantage of using multiple communication channels is that you offer students the flexibility to choose the one that best fits their needs and experiences. It is not biased, and students are advised to use any of them to communicate with their teachers and peers, create groups, and share reviews and opinions.

Include Collaborative Writing and Peer Review

There is nothing more valuable than writing; in education and learning, writing is a big part of shaping someone's character. Collaborative writing helps students draw on the same subject from different perspectives. They get a glimpse of the other's strengths and embrace their ideas. Feedback helps us grow, no matter whether it is positive or negative. Peer review is always welcomed.

Conclusion

A balance between the two types of classes should exist - between those that engage students in student-to-student interactions and those that focus more on the course and the lesson without allowing the discussions on the topics.

However, students want and need student interaction in classes. They perceive the interaction degree of a course as a significant characteristic.

Student to Student Interaction FAQ

How do you get students to interact with each other?

When faced with a challenge, students tend to prefer working in a group as there are various perspectives, and they can quickly reach a solution within a group setting. Thus, initialising a challenge that is easier to solve in a group setting is a great way to get students to interact with each other. This can be used for both offline and online environments.

How does student-to-student interaction affect learning?

More than just forming relationships, leadership and interaction skills, student-to-student interaction develops critical thinking, helps students see various perspectives of the same problem, and pushes them to find the best solution and improve their attention skills. All of these, in turn, lead to better academic achievements.

Why is student-to-student interaction important

Student-to-student interaction is the basis of social relationships students have further on. They help students understand the importance of respect in a group, different opinions, group work, leadership and friendships.

How do you increase student interaction in online classes?

Online classes represented a challenge initially as both students and teachers were new to the system. However, as each of them did their best to understand how the online works and to understand the systems that provided them with real-time and live access to sessions, the group works, and social gatherings, the online student interaction became easier.

Increasing student interaction in online classes means having group discussions, sharing social accounts and forming a social media group for informal talks, opening online game channels, having online assemblies on various topics and allowing free open discussions on different course subjects.

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Student to Student Interaction Strategies and Activities

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Three Tips for Better Relationships with Students

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Flipping allows students to pause and rewind their teacher

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Flipping speaks the language of today's students

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Technology Solutions That Drive Education

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Educational technology isn't new, but meaningfully integrating tech in a modern learning environment can be a significant challenge for educators today.

In the 21st century, it can feel like advanced technology is changing the K-12 classroom in ways we've never seen before. But the truth is, technology and education have a long history of evolving together to dramatically change how students learn.
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With more innovations surely headed our way, why not look back at how we got to where we are today, while looking forward to how educators can continue to integrate new technologies into their learning?

Using Technology in the K-12 Classroom: A History

1659: Magic Lantern

1795: Pencil

1801: Chalkboard
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1888: Ballpoint Pen

1950s: Overhead Projector

Inventor: Roger Appeldorn

A Brief History: Overhead projects were used during World War II for mission briefings. However, 3M employee Appeldorn is credited with creating not only a projectable transparent film, but also the overhead projectors that would find a home in classrooms for decades.

Interesting Fact: Appeldorn's creation is the predecessor to today's bright and efficient laser projectors.

1959: Photocopier

Inventor: Chester Carlson

A Brief History: Because of his arthritis, patent attorney and inventor Carlson wanted to create a less painful alternative to making carbon copies. Between 1938 and 1947, working with The Haloid Photographic Company, Carlson perfected the process of electrophotography, which led to development of the first photocopy machines.

Interesting Fact: Haloid and Carlson named their photocopying process xerography, which means "dry writing" in Greek. Eventually, Haloid renamed its company (and its flagship product line) Xerox.

1967: Handheld Calculator

Inventor: Texas Instruments

A Brief History: As recounted in our history of the calculator, Texas Instruments made calculators portable with a device that weighed 45 ounces and featured a small keyboard with 18 keys and a visual display of 12 decimal digits.

Interesting Fact: The original 1967 prototype of the device can be found in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

1981: The Osborne 1 Laptop

Inventor: Adam Osborne, Lee Felsenstein

A Brief History: Osborne, a computer book author, teamed up with computer engineer Felsenstein to create a portable computer that would appeal to general consumers. In the process, they provided the technological foundation that made modern one-to-one devices - like Chromebooks - a classroom staple.

Interesting Fact: At 24.5 pounds, the Osborne 1 was about as big and heavy as a sewing machine, earning it the current classification of a "luggable" computer, rather than a laptop.

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1990: World Wide Web

What Technology Is Used in Today's K-12 Classrooms?

Technology has come so far that modern classrooms are more technologically advanced than many science labs were two decades ago. Students have access to digital textbooks, personal devices, collaborative cloud-based tools, and interactive whiteboards. Emerging technologies now being introduced to K-12 classrooms include voice assistants, virtual reality devices and 3D printers.

Perhaps the most important thing about ed tech in K-12 isn't what the technology is, but how it's used.

How to Integrate Technology into K-12 Classrooms

The first step to integrating technology into the K-12 classroom is figuring out which solution to integrate, given the large variety of tools available to educators. That variety comes with benefits - like the ability to align tech with district objectives and grade level - but also brings challenges.

"It's difficult to know how to choose the appropriate digital tool or resource," says Judi Harris, professor and Pavey Family Chair in Educational Technology at the William & Mary School of Education. "Teachers need some familiarity with the tools so that they understand the potential advantages and disadvantages."

Teachers need some familiarity with the tools so that they understand the potential advantages and disadvantages."

Judi Harris Professor and Pavey Family Chair in Educational Technology, William and Mary School of Education

K-12 IT leaders should also be careful not to focus too much on technology implementation at the expense of curriculum-based learning needs. "What districts need to ask themselves is not only whether they're going to adopt a technology, but how they're going to adopt it," says Royce Kimmons, associate professor of instructional psychology and technology at Brigham Young University.

In other words, while emerging technologies may be exciting, acquiring them without proper consideration of their role in improving classroom learning will likely result in mixed student outcomes. For effective integration, educators should ask themselves, in what ways would the tech increase or support a student's productivity and learning outcomes? How will it improve engagement?

Integrating ed tech also requires some practical know-how. "Teachers need to be comfortable and confident with the tools they ask students to use," says Harris.
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Professional development for new technologies is crucial, as are supportive IT teams, tech providers with generous onboarding programs and technology integration specialists. Harris also points to initiatives like YES: Youth and Educators Succeeding, a nonprofit organization that prepares students to act as resident experts and classroom IT support.

But as educational technology is rolled out and integrated, it's important to keep academic goals in sight. "We should never stop focusing on how to best understand and help the learner to achieve those learning objectives," says Harris.

That should continue to be the case as the technology timeline unfolds, something Harris has witnessed firsthand during her four decades in the field. "It's been an incredible thing to watch and to participate in," she notes. "The great majority of teachers are extremely eager to learn and to do anything that will help their students learn better."

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What is Personalized Learning?

We are a Personalized Learning school. Personalized learning is an expansion of the Flipped Learning model - with one fundamental and transformational shift: students are offered support to learn how to learn. That responsibility is placed on them - with visual feedback, constant teacher interaction, and a mentor.

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