Sunday, July 6, 2014
Blog Post #11
What can we learn about teaching and learning from these teachers?
Brain Crosby-Back to the future
As a future teacher I think these videos were very beneficial. From them we can learn how teaching is transforming, evolving, and how students are reacting to that change. Students are going into a generation of learning that involves Project based learning which is based off of communication and connecting with others. From Brian Crosby we can learn that projects can become an important way to get students attention and allow them to share their finding through blog post. From his project we learn that students can become teachers themselves when helping other students complete the activity they posted on their blog. From the balloon project the students saw how powerful communicating and connecting could be.
Making thinking visible By: Mark Church
Project Based Learning By: Dean Shareski
From Mark Church we learn to make thinking visible. This means take what students are thinking and collaborating on and give it an audience. From Dean Shareski we learn a new style of teaching. We learned how three teachers came together with teaching fields of English, history and computer technology. I thought it was so creative for them to put together their ideas and still cover the states curriculum.
Roosevelt Elementary's PBL program
Last be not least, the last and most interesting thing we can learn came from Roosevelt Elementary’s PBL program. In this video we learn that kids are working with PBL and are having fun while doing so. We also got the parents perspective on how they felt about PBL. The parents were all proud of the work their kids were learning and happy that their learning experience was being shared around the world. One of the things I thought was interesting was the fact that the parents mentioned project based learning is helping their kids with public speaking. I never looked at PBL as a tool to help students get over the fear of speaking in front of an audience. Overall we can take a lot away from these teachers. We learn the basics of Project based learning, how it is used, how students feel about it and also how parents like it. We learn that technology is changing education and that this change will lead to new styles of teaching. Most of all we learn that Project based learning is the future and we must be prepared to teach using it.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Blog Post #10
Ms. Cassidy is a kindergarten teacher in Canada and she teaches technology in her classroom. Her students are using blogs and have their own personal computer in the classroom. In her class her students talk about how they like it when people leave them comments on their blog and how its not nice to leave bad comments. Ms. Cassidy has her own webpage for the students to access where they can click on links that would take them to class material. She has a very interesting concept that technology is here and it is here to stay. She believes that as teacher if you are not trying to learn how to use technology in the classroom you will begin to handicap yourself as well as the students.
Ms. Cassidy's best advice for me was that in a classroom you should use whatever tool or technology is best for you and the students. Say for example, if the students are into writing you can use the blog post approach to learning. If the students learn more from video you can use the YouTube approach. I learn that there is not a specific way to teach to reach your students. What is important is that you try different teaching methods and continue to use the one that the students positively and academically respond to.
If I were to choose a way of using technology in my PE class it would be using daily YouTube videos. I believe once students see a certain skill or activity done it can motivate them to at least give it a try. The more they see it and then record themselves doing it the more they can point out what’s wrong with their skill. Something I may encounter with this approach is how would I be able to video all the students individually. By using this approach it will be very time consuming but I think it can be a great way to teach students in a physical education classroom. For example if we are working on free throws I can pull up a clip of someone explaining the skill. Later we will try that skill and everyone will be recorded. The next day we can evaluate who had good free throw technique and who needs more practice. I love the idea of using video and I think it would be great for a PE setting.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Blog Post 9
What Can Teachers and
Students Teach Us About Project Based Learning?
Teachers and students can teach us a lot about project-based
learning. The teachers are daily working with lesson plans involving activities that can enhance the student’s knowledge. Project based learning is used by
giving students a driven question that causes them to research answers then
eventually ask more question. What we learn from teachers is that project based
learning is valuable. It makes the students work meaningful and helps them feel
like they serve a purpose in their education.
What we learn from students about Project-based learning is
that it is fun. With using tools like blogs, Google docs, wiki, computers and
ipad it makes it more interesting to the students. No more pens, pencil, paper,
and books; a Project Based Learning classroom is full of technology. From the
students we can learn that they love to see their work shared and viewed by the
world.
Here are a few links that gives an example of what Project
Based Learning can do and how kids are motivated to learn.
In this video you can see what life is without project based
learning. You see this girl going through the routine class where the teacher
is teaching and the rest of the class is listening or falling asleep. The
teacher is explaining something in math but who really cares, it’s boring. The
student then dreams about a classroom setting where the teacher is using
technology and every student has a laptop. In this dream you can see sharing of
information, collaborating and communicating. Even the teacher is more excited
and teaching using a more hands on approach. In the end the video says make the
dream of PBL a reality.
This video focus was on what motivates students and what
rewards work. The video showed about five students talking about how they are
each motivated to learn. One student motivation was to make good grades to go
to college, another one was the fact that if he didn’t make good grades he
wouldn’t be able to do the things he loved. One interesting motivation was a
student felt motivated by being praised or acknowledge by the teacher in front
of the class. In the end the video talks about what students like as rewards or
what teachers uses as rewards. It mostly came down to teachers using some type
of token or cash system. Some teacher gave out gifts and some let students do
fun activities before or during class.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Project 14 Lesson Plan #2
In this project students will do a variety of activates and learn lessons on the importance of what they eat. The tittle of this project is "My Pyramid/Balanced meal". Over a week span the students will be engaging in creating their own personal pyramid and also making a rap video explaining the different food groups. The students final projects will be posted outside the class room as well as on the web. Each student will post a daily journal on their blog site which has to included one picture from something they learned during the lesson. This lesson will involve critical thinking along with working with others.
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