Konferensi Nasional Sistem Informasi 2013, STMIK Bumigora Mataram 14-16 Pebruari 2013
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Makalah Nomor: KNSI-92
FLIPPING YOUR CLASSROOM WITH TECHNOLOGY
Yenni Djajalaksana1, Francisca H. Chandra2
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Jurusan Sistem Informasi, Fakultas Teknologi Informasi, Universitas Kristen Maranatha 1
Jl. Prof. Drg. Suria Sumantri No. 65, Bandung 2
Sekolah Tinggi Teknik Surabaya 2
Jl. Ngagel Jaya Tengah 73 – 77, Surabaya 1
yenni.md@fulbrightmail.org, 2 fhc@quadraluminari.com
Abstract
Educators in all level are often challenged by their teaching responsibilities as they must teach students with various levels of motivation, prior knowledge, skills, and capabilities to absorb the course materials. The flipped classroom concept offers a potential solution for educators to accommodate these diverse students. A flipped classroom is a classroom where the materials are learned by the students individually at their own pace prior to the classroom meetings so that the face-to-face classroom meetings can be used for more engaging learning activities. The flipped classroom concept has given some positive promises for today’s educators. With the help of technology and the availability of reusable learning objects in the internet, educators can give this method a try. This paper discusses the flipped classroom concept, pros and cons on implementing the flipped classroom, some tips to prepare the first flipped classroom, available resources that are ready-to-use, and several potential active learning instructional strategies to be used in the face-to-face classroom meetings.
Key words: flipped classroom, reusable learning objects, online resources, active learning, instructional strategies.
1. Background
As educators, our daily tasks involve preparing materials and guiding our students to learn the materials in our course. We continuously consider new ways to deliver our course materials to students, either in a traditional classroom or in a virtual e-learning environment. Ultimately, whatever we choose to do, the best educators will similarly think about one greatest goal, it is how we can help our students to be better learners, to help them survive when our courses end, in the wild real world.
Unfortunately, we are not always lucky, having students with the same level of motivation, prior-knowledge, skills, and capabilities to absorb what we teach. Having this condition, we are often challenged by students who struggle in our course, and students who get bored easily with our course because they are not challenged sufficiently. Our biggest challenge then is how can we offer enough differentiation for these different types of students
while at the same time we deliver the appropriate amount of knowledge to our students.
The answer to this question will not be simple, but it is not impossible. The “flipped classroom” concept, which this paper will discuss, is a concept on how to change your classroom experience so that students can learn sufficiently, at their own pace prior to the face-to-face class meetings using the aid of technology, and conduct a range of active learning activities inside the classroom. Although this concept has a similarity with the concept of blended learning, it is not exactly the same.
This paper is organized to first introduce the flipped classroom concept, the pros and cons on implementing this concept in your classroom, tips to prepare a your first flipped classroom, available online resources for your materials, and selected potential instructional strategies in implementing the flipped classroom concept.
2. The Flipped Classroom Concept
