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1. I would like to partipate on some level. Im at the very beginning stage, however. I’m new to the flipped classroom style of teaching at the college level. It appears that AI cheating is widespread at my institution (or History profs are just paranoid) and my hope is to do more of the actual writing/student analysis during the class period with the flipped classroom model.

   I need help at the most basic level. Would you
   recommend a video of an actual flipped history class that includes what the students looked at/read the night before and the activities during the actual class period? I’m having trouble visualizing it all.

   Are there any prepackaged flipped classroom materials for college level American History?

   I don’t want to pitch the course too low, but since the pandemic students are coming to college less prepared for college. My students are freshmen. Traditionally, I have had up to 1/4th of the fall freshman class come not prepared for class. Since the pandemic I find that most freshmen (fall and spring) have been struggling with how to prepare for class. They might do the reading but they don’t know how to identify what the argument was. It was only a fraction of the class that struggled before the pandemic. Perhaps, that is only a temporary problem though.

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   • Hi Lori,

     Thanks for your message. You make some great points regarding the challenges presented by AI and the struggles students are having since the pandemic. You are not alone there. A flipped approach can certainly help address these challenges.

     If you click on the link at the top of the website called “Flipping,” you will find a bunch of videos on flipping. I provide a link to one below from NPR you might find helpful. The “Flipping” link at the top of the website also provides a chart that might help you visualize how you can flip your courses.

     Regarding prepackaged flipped classroom materials for college level American History, you should check out the materials provided by the Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history, https://www.khanacademy.org/).
     I encourage you to look around. One of the challenges of flipping a course is that it can take some time to prepare the materials, particularly recording the videos that you will use. Our college provides faculty some reassigned time for this purpose. There are some easy ways to do this yourself. I teach some classes online using Zoom and I can record the classroom discussions and use them for other flipped classes I teach in the future. But the easiest way would be to use content that has already been created.

     You might find it useful to take an incremental approach. As you teach a course, you can record yourself for future flipped classes, bootstrapping your way into a future flipped course. You might also find it useful to partially flip a course. I teach some evening courses that meet one day a week for three hours. I have found it useful to break these meetings into segments: we have a class discussion as a group and then we break into study groups where students help each other work on the homework.

     Let me know if you have any other questions and how things work out in your classes. I am going to write a paper that outlines a philosophy of education based on the flipped approach. It will probably be a good idea for me to discuss how this approach can help faculty handle the challenges presented by AI and the struggles students are going through after the pandemic. I appreciate you reminding me about how those challenges relate to flipping the classroom.

     Tim

     NPR story on Flipping

     Flipping an American Culture/History Course
     https://crlt.umich.edu/flipping-american-culturehistory-course

     Flipping Your History Classroom
     https://ushistoryscene.com/article/flipping-your-classroom/

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