Flipped Classroom

My understanding of a flipped classroom is that students go home and watch tutorials, read textbooks, and study topics outside of the classroom and then do what we essentially know as "homework" inside of the classroom. One of the benefits of this approach is that students get to ask for help with the specific things they need help with. They learn everything they can on their own and anything they don't understand and can't grasp by themselves they can then go into class and ask direct and specific questions. To where as in a classroom when being introduced to a topic you might not be able to address specific issues as easily. Another benefit would be that because the teacher is there for the "independent" practice said teacher can see which part of applying the knowledge students are getting hung up on. The last benefit I could think of at this moment is this approach helps with the different learning speed of students. For those fast learners, and those who can be more independent with their learner can go home and get a good understanding of a topic, do the work in class and wont be held back by those who might need a little bit more time to go over a topic when they are being introduced to something. Students who need a little bit more time seeing something before they get a full understanding now have more access to the teacher for a longer amount of time. I say this because the teacher would spend less time introducing the topic since they have already seen it, they can (like I've said previously) focus on exactly what they are having trouble with.

I feel like for this specific class this approach could be beneficial. If we were required to go home and look at something (website, program, or whatever) and get to know some of its features before going into class Prof. Brunvard would have more time to focus on certain aspects he wants to point out and it allows us to view more features because we could all share the different things we saw with the technology. This could also provide opportunity for more points. There could be assignments much like the weekly reading assignments where we either have to do/create something with the technology and turn it in (i.e. create a test on Edmodo, create a QR scan for something, write about some of the features of an iPad) or do in class. Also, like it was mentioned in class, this could give us more time to work on projects in class. Another thing someone mentioned in class is experiencing these technologies as a student is beneficial and it is, and its very important, but this way we could explore these technologies as an instructor outside of the classroom and as a student inside of the classroom. I loveeeeeee the way the class is executed now so I'm not saying we should trash the system and flip everything,  just thinking of the benefits of a different approach.