Reflection #2 – Student Centred Learning & Flipped Classroom

From my humble experience in teaching field I think sometimes I had applied this method of learning with out knowing its academic term or application, computer subjects rarely applied this kind of learning method ,most of the time students are busy with computers doing their class work or browsing the internet. As I went through the material I have concluded that Student Center Learning (SCL) is method of learning which focus most of the work in the class on the student where the teacher roles becomes only as a guider or facilitator in which he directs student to the right approach therefore student become the axis of the educational process inside the class. 

The aim of SCL is to place students on the middle of learning process where they can participate more so they will be fully involve in the learning process through responsibility and activity. Student can benefit from this method by giving them the opportunity to practice several skills and techniques of learning like: problem solving (problem based learning), critical thinking, reflective thinking and cooperative learning.

Students who employ this technique of learning can be more social in the future and it will encourage them to become more active in the society. I believe student who’s been attempt this kind of learning has more chance to become leaders of the future.

Before I end my post, I would like to share with you these two documentary movies that shows a scenario of a student-centered learning class in more than one view.

Flipped Classroom : 

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Flipped classroom is a new methodology of learning where it inverts traditional teaching method by means of delivering instructions outside the classroom using online resources where homework is moved backward into the traditional classroom to be discussed. 

Students learn and interact with the lesson from their homes with out time and place restriction if it not vital; they can communicate with their peers and teachers via online discussions, problems, and activities using the available internet resources. Teacher helps student equally by giving them feedback of certain activity or lesson at onetime as well as reviewing question individually for each student.

Benefits of flipped classroom:

• Time flexibility.
• Students equally understand.
• student are managed equally by instructor.
• No time and place restriction.
• More planned and constructive.
• Absorb student misbehavior or discipline.  
• Students can study with their own pace.
• It may serve all models of learners.
•  lesson can be repeated several times.  
• Stimulates and active high level of learning.
• Parents will have more time to spend with their children.