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Flipping a classroom (FC) is an innovative instructional strategy that is designed to engage students in a fleixble, blended learning environment with the purpose of enhancing the learning process. FC must be carefully planned and implemented and teachers involved must invest time in professional development. Some teachers who have never used any kind of technology or delivered blended instruction would naturally feel challenged with this new method of pedagoy; however, evide-based research has shown the engagement and collaborative nature of FC enables higher levels of learning in Bloom's Taxonomy markers with the engaged students. The students are given more control of their learning and the teacher is no longer the provider of information but rather a facilitator in the classroom and it becomes an expert guide. There should not be excuses used to prevent or procrastinate to adopt FC once committment to use this learning strategy is made; rather there should be a cause analysis study conducted to enure all stakeholder are well-equipped and trained and that tehcnology will suppor the learning. Teachers must prepare to adopt FC; they should not expect FC to transform them.Teachers will need to transform their teaching style by adopting FC and not the other way around. There are several emerging platforms to enable the pre-recorded lessons which should not be kept short (betwwen 5-15 mins max in length). There are always new and improved platforms  or tools being used. Some fo the ones discussed in the lesson are Melot, Khan Academy, TeacherTube, Digital Learning Commons, etc. The latest used platforms include Edpuzzle , Quizizz ,  Google Classroom , Padlet , and others.

 

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