ABSTRACT
Traditional teaching and learning is all about sitting quietly and listening to the teacher teach. Students are expected to learn by assimilation. Many children with autism are regularly excluded from schools as teachers fail to understand the teaching and learning needs of these children. New technology supports the current educational thinking that students are better able to master, retain and generalise new knowledge when they are actively involved in constructing that knowledge in a learning-by-doing situation. The flipped classroom is a new and popular approach that makes the student an active participant in the acquisition of knowledge. The education system has focused in the past on weaknesses instead of strengths and in correcting those weaknesses. Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner identified that students possess different kinds of minds and therefore learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways. Many children with learning difficulties have struggled with the process of writing.
