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switch homework and school work  10:59 AM, Sep 4, 2012   |  
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a recent afternoon, Jete Long, 13, received his 8th grade math
lesson from his teacher on a laptop computer in the comfort of
his home.  He watched as Dodgen Middle School math teacher
Ashley Miller explained on video, "Our lesson for today is
solving for a variable when you have parallel lines cut by a
transversal."  Miller recorded the new math concept so students
like Jete can watch on a computer, smart phone, tablet or
anywhere they can pull-up video. They can watch any place, at
any time and as often as they'd like.  The concept is called the
"Flipped Classroom," based on the Flip Your Classroom concepts
developed by Colorado educators, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron
Sams.  "Not in the sense that we're going to be doing back
handsprings in class, but in the sense that what you've
traditionally done as homework, will now b