The Flipped Classroom

The Flipped Classroom was one of the first COP lectures of this year.

In this lecture two interesting books were mentioned: 'The ignorant schoolmaster' and 'The politics of aesthetics', both written by Jacques Ranciére, a communist writer.

The 60's were highlighted as an revolutionary decade for educational roles. Visual communication was a tool students used back in the days to protest. And it was very interesting to see how revolution visual symbols were commercialised to defeat it. At this point I realised as a graphic designer how powerful was to commercialise, for instance, the image of the Che Guevara as a way to defeat the ideas of the cuban revolution.

It was also very interesting to see how actually teacher needs students and not the other way around. We've come to believe that the teacher is the expert, the one to speak to naive students to control and indoctrinate them in a judgemental environment. On the other hand, there's is a more communist approach to education where teacher and students are equally intelligent.

An alive example of this is the School of the Damned, run by students and challenging old methodologies.

I found all this really interesting and I think LCA is pretty close of this second model, which makes me happy to be part of. This made me think about society thinks everything has been figured out when in fact there is a lot of work to do yet not just to progress, but to go against the steam.