AI-Powered Flipped Classroom: Creating Material for Differentiated Instruction

Description

Many teachers nowadays notice that students with the help of GenAI tools increasingly complete homework (especially when it involves writing tasks and routine exercises).

As a result, traditional homework risks becoming less meaningful, and, at the same time, teachers are looking for better ways to use limited classroom time.

In this sense, the Flipped Classroom methodology can be the perfect solution.

By implementing it, students can explore essential content and school knowledge before class and then use lesson time practicing what they have learned, boosting collaboration and higher-order thinking under the teachers’ guidance.

What this course wants to show is how much generative AI can significantly enhance this approach.

It helps teachers create pre-class quickly and creatively, differentiate tasks for diverse learners, and design inclusive and student-centered activities.

In fact, when combined, AI and Flipped Classroom methods allow teachers to save “classroom time”, foster deeper engagement in their students, and support a more personalized style of teaching (and learning).

During the course, participants will learn how to use AI tools to design a full range of pre-class resources – videos, summaries, mind maps, quizzes, and interactive materials – and how to structure in-class activities for application, collaboration, and critical thinking.

They will also explore formative and summative assessment strategies that work particularly well in a flipped environment.

Throughout the week, participants will reflect on the opportunities and challenges of GenAI in education, including issues of student overreliance, academic integrity, and the impact of AI on future skills and work.

By the end of the course, participants will have acquired a renewed understanding of the flipped classroom approach, and they will have learnt how to effectively implement GenAI to create classroom materials.

Concept by Ada Rigacci

Learning outcomes

This course will help participants to:

• Understand the Flipped Classroom methodology and its benefits for active learning and student engagement;
• Reflect on the role of homework in the AI era and analyse how GenAI changes students’ learning habits and needs;
• Create differentiated material (videos, summaries, and flash cards) to be shared before class with the help of AI tools;
• Design inclusive and differentiated in-class activities that build on prior knowledge and support diverse learning profiles;
• Evaluate opportunities and challenges of GenAI in education, including academic integrity, bias, and responsible use;
• Use AI tools to develop diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment strategies to monitor students’ progress effectively;
• Plan classroom tasks that foster higher-order thinking, including analysis, problem-solving, and creative application;
• Integrate collaborative learning activities to promote communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking;
• Design a complete AI-supported Flipped Classroom lesson plan, ready to implement in their own teaching context.

Tentative schedule

Day 1 – Introduction to the course

• Introduction to the course and the Academy;
• Introduction to the host city and the week’s cultural activities;
• Icebreaker activities;
• Presentations of the participants’ schools and institutions.

AI in Education

• Opportunities and challenges of GenAI in schools;
• The impact of AI on students’ study habits and learning autonomy.

Homework in the AI Era

• Completing assignments with AI;
• Detecting AI-generated content;
• Rethinking assessment in the AI era.

Day 2 – Flipped classroom

• Brief history and pedagogical principles of the Flipped Classroom methodology.
• Moving practice into class time: implications for assessment.

Planning Pre-class activities

• Creating videos, mind maps, flashcards, and audio material;
• Using AI tools for differentiation and accessibility;
• What is the appropriate amount of prep time for each school level?

Day 3 – Making the most of in-class time

• Opening brainstorming: skills I want my students to practice;
• Higher-order thinking skills;
• Collaborative learning strategies for students to practice communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking in class.

AI Tools in Class

• Ideas for creative and collaborative use of AI tools in class;
• Conversation simulation, interviewing a historical person, and AI chatbots as tutors.

Day 4 – Diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment in the flipped classroom

• Assessment of learning or assessment for learning?;
• AI tools for assessment: ethical questions, practical use, and data concerns;
• Assessment strategies for the Flipped Classroom.

Academic Integrity

• Responsible AI use for teachers and students;
• Data privacy, transparency, and safe practices;
• Co-creating a school AI code of conduct.

Day 5 – Design your flipped classroom lesson plan

• Group Workshop: designing a complete Flipped Classroom lesson plan;
• Learning goals, standards, formative & summative assessment;
• Personal action plan: how to transfer learning to your school;
• Sharing outcomes and building networks for future collaboration;
• Course evaluation: round-up of acquired competencies, feedback, and discussions;
• Awarding of the course Certificate of Attendance.

Day 6 – Structured cultural activities

• Structured cultural activity(ies) according to the hosting location;
• Learning journal: individual written reflection on the course experience;
• Course reflection: self-reflection and review of course materials and resources.

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