FlipCon13

Flipping my classroom was not a problem. Helping my adult learners become self-sufficient active learners was a problem.
Through an entrepreneurial grant from my school we combined my classroom with educational support services. We used learning contracts and invasive educational support services to improve student outcomes.
This presentation will share the results of this experiment and our plans for the future. We have examples of learning contracts used and quantitative and qualitative results.

This presentation describes how the flipped approach was implemented in an introductory Computer Science undergraduate course in algorithmic thinking at a four-year college. It examines content that is appropriate for learning at the student’s individual pace outside the classroom. It focuses on suggestions for active learning exercises at (Bloom's) higher levels of learning in the classroom. This approach showed that the instructor’s different role, as a guide rather than a lecturer, allowed students to learn actively, built confidence, and especially provided one-on-one support and motivation for weaker students, who learnt from their peers as well as from the teacher. These advantages can help address problems with retention of students in the introductory programming courses in the CS major. Student reaction to this new classroom paradigm was overwhelmingly positive.

As teachers become skilled at creating flipped content, they face the challenges of storing, organizing and presenting their content in ways that will streamline learning. Edmodo and Google Drive are two tools that work well in tandem to help teachers manage their flipped content. In this session, participants will:

*Log in to their Edmodo account and join Mr. Kain’s Flipcon 13 Class
*Filter Edmodo content to see only their assignments
*Learn how embed a video from a Google Drive shared folder in an Edmodo post (see example at http://bit.ly/edmodoembed
*Learn how to upload a series of videos to a Google Drive that students will view sequentially
*Watch a video from Mr.Kain’s Google Drive account that is embedded in an Edmodo assignment
*Follow instructions in the video to embed content into their own Edmodo posts
*Take a quiz in Edmodo
*Make an Edmodo post public