Working in the flipping Fish bowl

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Its often hard to reflect on your teaching practices when you feel under the microscope. I love that people are interested in flipping and I welcome the collaboration as I feel a bit adrift in a sea by myself on this one, however, there is an aspect of expectation that comes with an open door policy. It is hard to try something new not be sure of how it is going and have an audience of your peers waiting for the results to be positive, or some maybe waiting for them to be a complete disaster so that it can be said it doesn't work.

I feel like I have hardly gotten my feet wet and already I am being asked to teach others how to do it. Its overwhelming and intimidating at times but at the same time reassuring as it means I might be on to something here. I struggle with my ultimate goal which is to use flip as the mechanism to spend more quality time with each and every student, in the way that they need me, and to engage them in a way that remembers play and exploration.

I have ultimately been forcing myself to go through this process by learning flipping and inquiry in a flipped classroom kind of way. Inquiry is coming more slowly as I struggle with the chicken and egg that is teaching a software based course. In order to have effective play and exploration, you need to have some knowledge of the programs. Its incredibly intimidating to open a program and see this

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I wouldn't even know where to begin playing if confronted with this having no background knowledge. So this begs the questions how much previous knowledge is needed in order to have engaging successful exploration? I DON'T KNOW!!!! This I my big question for the time being.

I am currently immersed in Flipping 2.0 which is further fueling my fire of curiosity. It is so well put together, yet, I have not found a section on flipping in the technology classroom. I know most flippers use the technology as a means of delivering the content for just in time learning, but what if the technology is the learning? You would think that it is simple just follow the principles of blended learning and explore/ flip/ explain and you are set. And yet, here I sit on my Pro D day contemplating. How on Earth do I make this work?