Students as Critical Thinkers in the Flipped Classroom

I recently read a blog post by +Alice Chen titled, "Don't Just Flip the Videos, Flip the Learning," in it she discusses that having children watch videos at home and then answer questions is just an extension of the teacher centered classroom. She writes:

This is a teacher-centered classroom, where the questions are driven by the teacher.  This is not new pedagogy.  It's simply moving the geographical location of the lesson from the classroom to the home with the help of technology.

Instead of the teacher providing the questions as accompaniment to the video, teach your students how to ask critical thinking questions that will drive the learning into their own hands.  Assign the video, but also embed it on a platform that will allow students to actively discuss the material they watched with each other.  

There are several free web tools that will help you to use YouTube to accomplish the goal of turning your students into critical thinkers while flipping your classroom.

VideoNot.es Allows students to take notes while watching a YouTube video. These notes are synced with the video so that when a student reviews the notes they will automatically be taken to the correct