Edina Digital Age Learning

Kristin Daniels, Technology Integration Specialist for Stillwater Schools presented the keynote presentation at the MEMO Pre-Conference on " Personal Portable Learning ." The strands today included BYOD, Flipped Learning, 1:1 and iPads.  Here experience began at the elementary level in Stillwater looking at the learning experience the students were having. They began implementing a Flipped Classroom pilot , where a group of 6 teachers began creating video lecture content and having students watch that at home. She and her colleague, Wayne Feller thought about "How do we want to spend our time together with teachers?" They developed a Flipped Professional Development model where the staff could view video of the "how to," and then spend face to face time looking at the best way to implement that in their classroom. She shared stories from the "Learning Culture" that has been impacted by the Flipped pilot. After each video, they included a...

Note: These are my notes from a panel at MDE on March 30. Realized today I never got it posted ... Mark Carlson from Edina, Mike Dronen , Wayne Feller and Kristin Daniels from Stillwater, and Chad Bray from Red Wing shared their experience of Flipped learning in the classroom. Carlson, who has been flipping his instruction 3 years ago, started off talking about the shift from "Did I cover this?" to "Do you understand this?" He noted that it is much more work, but he has much more one on one time with students . For some of the videos, he's on his 3rd or 4th edit, and he likes that if it isn't good, he can change it! All of his videos are on Youtube , and he has the student complete formative quiz questions in Moodle. Dronen, the Tech Director in Stillwater saw 4% growth in students MCAII questions after their 2 1/2 month pilot of flipped instruction. Staff told them that even if the district can't support it, they are going to make it a p...