We’ve refined the concept of flipped PD in response to this need for on-going, any time, any place, any pace professional learning
We now only have two staff meetings a year and those are far from traditional meetings. The remainder of our professional learning occurs within school based PLN teams, individually based PLNs, and grade level teams.
While their time isn’t monitored, their productivity is
The fact that you can hold it up to your face makes a tablet the best device available for reading, web browsing and consuming media. It has all of the functions of a PC in a smaller package.
The ability for students to send their work to their personal email accounts or cloud drives, just like on a school computer, is another huge advantage.
Their minds were changed as they discovered their students were more interested in science experiments, grasped the technology quickly, better understood concepts, and were able to make connections with other concepts. The teachers also found out that they were not behind in their curriculum and students scored better, on average, on chapter tests.