Editor's Note: This post was co-authored by Aaron Sams, Managing Director of FlippedClass.com and founding member of the Flipped Learning Network.

Flipping your classroom is a great way to move from "sage on the stage" to "guide on the side." But that shift can also bring about a number of other complications. For instance:

What if students can't access the internet at home?

What if students simply don't know how to watch an educational video?

What if students blow it off and don't watch the content at all?

What if you don't feel confident at making videos?

What if you don't even know where to start?

The answers to these questions are in the video above.

Meanwhile, the rest of this post will delve into one of these questions in more detail: What happens if students don't know how to watch an educational video?

Watching vs. Interacting

To answer this question, there is a word that I would like to take out of the vocabulary of flipped classroom teachers. That word is watch -- as in: "Students are supposed to watch a video at home and then come to class prepared to learn." Watch is such a passive word. Students watch a Batman movie, they watch a TV show like The Voice, but we don't want students to watch flipped class videos.