Lecture 2 - The Flipped Classroom

This was a pretty interesting lecture, touching on ideas of education but in a not so diagram-happy way. It compared old traditional methods of teaching to newer, more involved methods which are believed to have better results when it comes to engagement and learning. 

It is about flipping the hierarchy within a classroom, and as a result there is no longer any hierarchy. Students are more in charge of the learning than the teacher. They aren't told what to do in the traditional way of teacher standing and telling them what they should know, resulting in the sharing of ideas and group self-prompted learning. Collaborative and self-initiated work helps information sink in and students to actually enjoy what they are learning about. 

The student revolts of 1968 in Paris were also referenced and the more recent protests about cutting art foundations at UAL. The point of these protests was that higher education was becoming/is more elitist and students wanted education for everyone, not just for people to have to be spat out into the workplace after. Education isn't about learning for the beauty of learning, it's just constantly setting you up for a 'good job'. The uprising against stale old methods of teaching links to the 'flipped classroom'. 

• L'atelier Populaire - the occupation of art schools and print rooms, where the protesting students made posters and banners to support their cause and spread their message and ideas.