Mr. Brian Crosby is a
teacher that utilizes technology and project based learning in his classroom. He
created projects that engaged all his students, and really made them want to
learn. He used technology by allowing students to write blog posts about all of
the projects they were doing. He even had the class create a Wiki where people from
all over the world could ask them about the projects they were working on. After
they created the Wiki, he had students from different schools asking him to
teach their teacher how to do these projects! I think that is a great
indication of how wonderful these projects can be. They promote curiosity in
students about the topics they are learning which in turn helps the
students learn more.
Mr. Paul Andersen is a biology teacher who created an acronym to go along with blended learning in his classroom. His acronym is QUIVERS: Question, Investigate/ Inquiry, Video, Elaboration, Review, and Summary Quiz. I like this method a lot because the teacher stays involved with the students throughout the whole process. For instance, he gives them a good question, he helps the students investigate the topic, he gives the students a video to watch, he gives the students problems to elaborate on the subject, and then he reviews the material with each individual student before they are allowed to take the quiz. I think this is a great way for the teacher to feel confident that their students really learned what they were supposed to learn.
Mr. Sam Pane is a teacher
who taught students about internet safety using a comic generator. I really
liked this idea because the students got to work on their writing skills as
well as learn about internet safety. Plus, you could tell in the video that the
students were really enjoying creating these comics. Here is the link for the
video in case anyone wanted to check it out.
The rest of the videos I watched today had to do with Project Based Learning. The teachers in these videos were using project based learning with students as young as 5 years old. I thought this was a great idea because it will make it easier for students to do different projects in the future. It will also help them with public speaking since they are presenting projects at an early age.
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