Mobile Apps?

I'm currently reading the NMC Horizon Project Short List (2013) for EDHI and I got really excited when I read the 'Mobile Apps' section. I could definitely envision using this in a class. Imagine the following scenario:

 At the end of each class, you do a 'muddiest point' activity where you ask students to take 60 seconds to jot down the portion of the day's lecture that was perhaps unclear to them. Assuming there's some sort of consensus, you could produce a short video (or two) or supplementary explanation that got send out via your app. This information would be easy to digest (~5 minutes or less), to encourage students to participate. Enrollment would (obviously) be optional and materials from the app would also be uploaded to the classroom management system for equal access.

Just a quick thought!

Flipping the classroom is esentially taking the lecture (or needed fundamental knowledge) component out of the classroom and making it homework. As a result, classtime can be effectively utilized for experimentation, active learning, and other collaborative learning activities.

As a laboratory teaching assistant, I feel like I've almost exclusively 'flipped the classroom'. Students must come into the labs prepared to perform experiments. Students work in groups to develop hypotheses, produce an experimental design, and carry out an experiment to answer a question. Without performing some amount of background research, students will likely be unable to handle the tasks assigned to them. This can be rewarding but frustrating. If students come unprepared (despite needing to complete a pre-laboratory assignment), they can hold up their teams and cause general frustration to the class.