Flip Learning: A New Paradigm

Abstract

The progressive spread of the Internet and new digital technologies brings about changes in society also in the forms of knowledge acquisition, in the school-educational setting the teacher is no longer the only provider of knowledge. Digital natives are characterized by the ability to be multitasking, gain experience, experiment through new technological strategies. The radical transformation of our way of communicating and relating to sources of information and in-training changes the communication and cognitive paradigms and in this scenario new ways of teaching take shape: frontal lessons and individual study. The flip model was created for an effective acquisition and introjection of cultural changes induced by ICT in order to support new ways of learning, guaranteeing freedom of expression and personalization of teaching. The crucial aspects do not lie in the use of media education tools, but in the adoption of a different educational paradigm, which sees teachers no longer as “distributors / transmitters” of knowledge, but as facilitators of learning processes in support of cognitive methodological faculties. With this in mind, the article presents a pilot study conducted among students of different classes of a high school.