1. The Flipped Humanities Classroom
Kathi Inman Berens
CET Distinguished Fellow
Fellow, Annenberg Innovation Research Council
IBM Faculty Award Winner
University of Southern California

2. Mobile Learning
I shoot video lectures for my OL students.
Example: http://bit.ly/1mHCwuM
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3. STEM Flip <> HUM Flip
In STEM disciplines, “Flipping” means doing “homework”
in the classroom & watching vid lectures at home. STEM lectures are fastpaced content delivery & edification of textbook.
In HUM & related disciplines, classroom
experience is already “Flipped”: learners actively interpret,
debate and make meaning both individually and collaboratively. Lecture is
dynamic & responsive. Vid flattens a hum lecture from 3D to 2D.
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4. HUM: “Flip” Graded Work
The Classroom is already “Flipped”
Hum & other interpretive disciplines assess
performance individually.
BUT… post-univ work environments are
collaborative & virtual.
Broaden assessed work to include
collaborative authorship.
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5. Cathy Davidson:
c20 edu =
“Industrial” model
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7. Jack Halberstam
There are 2 pieces to the
Flipped Classroom
equation. The problem
solving during classroom
But
for humanists, the
live piece, the lecture
piece, is not worked
out…. A good
time works beautifully.
lecture meanders.
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Prof. Comp Lit, AMST, Gender
Studies, Queer Theory

8. F2F’s Value Prop
Databases can’t reproduce
serendipty akin to the canniness of
embodied learning environments.
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9. Myths about
“Digital Natives”
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10. Use mobile to optimize
hybrid learning.
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11. The New Learning Is Ancient
http://kathiiberens.com/teaching/philosophy/
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12. How To?
Start w/ 1 assigment. I created these:
• Design Thinking Lab
• Mobile Role Playing Game via Twitter
• Collaboratively authored G-Doc
• QR-code powered Scavenger Hunt on
campus
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13. Why MOOCs entice/ scare univs
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14. In the era of MOOCs
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15. How important is intimacy?
“The professor is in most [MOOCs] out
of students’ reach, only slightly more
accessible than the pope or Thomas
Pynchon. “
--A.J. Jacobs on MOOCS
NYT, 20 Apr. 13
Img: Ana Albero, NYT
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16. SCALE
• Raw materials of digital pedagogy can be
shared at massive scale;
• But their application cannot.
• Even in Al Filreis’ Modern Poetry MOOC “there are
abundant office hours, discussion leaders, and even a
phone number you can call to discuss your
interpretations of the week’s poem”
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17. Some F2F “procedures” are
now optional
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Meeting physically in a campus room
Talking using voices
Taking turns
Synchronicity
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18. F2F, optimize for what a
database can’t do
Computation can build working relationships
from intimacy sparked F2F.
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19. is software’s procedural goal.
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