FLARE

Flipped learning & AI for reflective education

M.Sc. Lauri Hellsten

math and physics teacher in Espoon yhteislyseo

Physics teacher of the year 2025 (Finnish society of sciences and letters)

STEAM teacher of the year 2023 (MAOL ry)

ASEFClassNet EmpowerEd Project 2025

Keep Your Microphone Muted 🎤 – Mute yourself when not speaking to avoid background noise.
Turn On Your Camera 📷 – Helps create a more engaging and connected atmosphere.
Use the Chat & Raise Hand ✋💬 – Share quick thoughts in chat or use “raise hand” before speaking to ensure smooth discussion.

Guidelines for online sessions

What is Flipped learning (FL)?

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FLIPPED LEARNING

Flipped Classroom Flipped Learning

Definition 📝	Lessons at home, practice in class	Broader approach transforming learning
Aim 🎯	Focus on when & where	Focus on how & by whom
Output 📊	Home lectures, class activities	Active, flexible, assessed learning
Teacher Role 👩‍🏫	Content deliverer, facilitator	Guide, mentor, reflective partner
Student Role 👨‍🎓	Receive & practice	Active, collaborative, autonomous
Technology 💻	Mainly for delivery	For delivery, assessment, collaboration
Scope 🌍	Narrow: instruction only	Broad: curriculum & pedagogy

The flipped classroom (FC) is a teaching method that shifts instruction to the home and practice to the classroom, while flipped learning (FL) is a broader pedagogical approach that builds on this model to promote active, student-centered, and flexible learning.

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1. Upper Secondary Schools Act

2. National core curriculum

300 pages altogether
13 pages math curriculum
5 pages physics curriculum

3. Local curriculum (mostly same as #2)

(4. Matriculation exam)

Upper secondary school in Finland

1. semester

2. semester

3. semester

1. period

2. period

3. period

4. period

5. period

min. 75 courses and usually 3 years

usually 6 + 1 weeks

5 - 7 courses,

1 course = 3 x 75 min per week

Matriculation exam at the end, min. 4 exams

“The use of ICT changes the role of the teacher, who will be more of a facilitator guiding the students' learning processes than a knowledge provider. The time allocated for the teacher and the pupil to meet in is too valuable to be spent solely on information distribution. The teacher is required to command new skills and to adapt a new approach, which in turn generates pressure on the basic and continuing education of teachers.”

Finnish National Board of Education review, 2011 (translated)

ICT in Learning

Law & Assessment

"A student´s assessment is to guide and encourage learning and develop the student's capacity for self-evaluation."

- Basic Education Act and the Upper Secondary Schools Act of 1998 (translated)

Formative assessment is emphasized in the law and curriculum.

	Summative Assessment	Formative Assessment
Time	At the end of a learning activity	During a learning activity
Goal	To make a decision	To improve learning
Feedback	Final judgement	Return to material
Frame of Reference	Sometimes normative (comparing each student against all others); sometimes criterion	Always criterion (evaluating students according to the same criteria)