There is an article in the NY Times speaking of a proposed and at times implemented technique of having students watch video lectures and then spend class time doing homework. They state:
one where students watch teachers’ lectures at home and do what we’d otherwise call “homework” in class. Teachers record video lessons, which students watch on their smartphones, home computers or at lunch in the school’s tech lab. In class, they do projects, exercises or lab experiments in small groups while the teacher circulates.
Frankly one then wonders what the teacher is doing? I have seen this in certain environments. It is a MOOC at Grade School. It is a cop-out for teachers to just wander and leave the burden on the student.
The problem with US education is the continual introduction of new techniques while having all too often poor teachers. Or worse, having good teachers made poor by technique.
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