Comments on: Flipping the classroom – and the results http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2012/07/11/flipping-the-classroom-and-the-results/ News and views on Utah public policy Tue, 21 May 2013 20:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: How Utah’s universities are illustrating the potential of digital learning | Sutherland Daily http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2012/07/11/flipping-the-classroom-and-the-results/#comment-1861 How Utah’s universities are illustrating the potential of digital learning | Sutherland Daily Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:47:51 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news_old/?p=3466#comment-1861 [...] have blogged regularly here about the many ways that digital learning is improving public education across the country by creating [...]

]]> By: Seeking solutions http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2012/07/11/flipping-the-classroom-and-the-results/#comment-1691 Seeking solutions Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:08:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news_old/?p=3466#comment-1691 I’m beginning to see a pattern, too. Sutherland promotes a possible solution and JBT blows raspberries and prattles off complaints.

If I understand what JBT is saying, the silver bullet is more funding. That’s no solution. Our antiquated education system is broken. We can’t only afford to only spend more, we have to spend smarter. 

]]> By: Seeking solutions http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2012/07/11/flipping-the-classroom-and-the-results/#comment-1860 Seeking solutions Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:08:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news_old/?p=3466#comment-1860 I’m beginning to see a pattern, too. Sutherland promotes a possible solution and JBT blows raspberries and prattles off complaints.

If I understand what JBT is saying, the silver bullet is more funding. That’s no solution. Our antiquated education system is broken. We can’t only afford to only spend more, we have to spend smarter. 

]]> By: jbt http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2012/07/11/flipping-the-classroom-and-the-results/#comment-1690 jbt Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:37:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news_old/?p=3466#comment-1690 Most of the students who are failing in Utah’s schools put forth no effort to learn either at home or in the classroom.  There is no silver bullet or gimmick that will change this fact.  The students who did better academically in this study did so because they put in study time at home in addition to classroom seat time in each of the tested subjects.  This would have produced the same positive result whether the classroom were “flipped” or not. 

The Sutherland Institute keeps looking for shortcuts to improving education in Utah while purposely ignoring the fact that Utah’s schools are the lowest funded among the 50 states—$1000 lower than the next to last state which is Idaho.  It is interesting to note that Idaho has the second largest LDS population next to Utah among the 50 states.  Does anyone else see a pattern here?

]]> By: jbt http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2012/07/11/flipping-the-classroom-and-the-results/#comment-1859 jbt Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:37:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news_old/?p=3466#comment-1859 Most of the students who are failing in Utah’s schools put forth no effort to learn either at home or in the classroom.  There is no silver bullet or gimmick that will change this fact.  The students who did better academically in this study did so because they put in study time at home in addition to classroom seat time in each of the tested subjects.  This would have produced the same positive result whether the classroom were “flipped” or not. 

The Sutherland Institute keeps looking for shortcuts to improving education in Utah while purposely ignoring the fact that Utah’s schools are the lowest funded among the 50 states—$1000 lower than the next to last state which is Idaho.  It is interesting to note that Idaho has the second largest LDS population next to Utah among the 50 states.  Does anyone else see a pattern here?

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