Flipping the classroom vitalizes seatwork time in STEM disciplines. But by that standard, the humanities classroom is already flipped. This slideshare discloses best practices for a humanities-specific "flipped" classroom experience.

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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