Flipped Learning

This past week, a teacher who teaches math to 6th grade tried flipping her math class.  She used Kahn Academy for the vodcast and then followed up the next day with an in class learning activity.  Going into it, we were nervous about the following:

• What would happen if students encountered technical difficulties at home?
• What would happen if students did not do the viewing of the video at home?  How would she know this?  What would she do the next day; not allow them to participate?  How would she make sure they learned the material?
• What would happen if a student watched the video and did not understand it?  How would she reinstruct them before the follow up activity without boring those students who did understand it? 

The teacher did a fantastic job of motivating her students, modeling how to access the video for them, and as luck may have it, none of the above became an issue.  The class had a fun application investigation that normally there would not have been time for. 

A parent of a child in her class wrote the following email after the follow up activity the next day:
" I wanted to commend you for such an interesting and creative assignment tonight. ----- spent a long time thinking about it, writing it up, getting involved. You really got him, and I imagine, other kids engaged, and the names of the suspects were so funny! I hope you save this piece so you can use it again. "
I can really see how this could give those of us who teach on the "yeshiva crunch schedule" a chance to use more hands on/application type experiences with our classes.

I am still concerned about the questions I wrote above, if anyone is using flipped learning and has good strategies for the above please respond and let me know!