Brian Cosby's Back to the Future project is a project based learning project that adheres to all of the state learning standards. In order to attain feedback for his lessons he used class blogs to track the understanding of all of his students. He ensured to enrich the students' PLN's with "High Hopes" to connect with children from around the world and share each other's dreams. With this tool the students taught the students from other countries what they've learned as a fun way of expressing their knowledge. Crosby's lessons we so accessible that a student with leukemia was able to follow along and keep up with the class even with the stress of their deadly illness.
Mr. Paul Anderson uses the Blended Learning Cycle to combine technology, mobility, and the classroom itself to better the learning process. He goes on to explain the 5 E's of Science:
- Engage
- Explore
- Explain
- Expand
- Evaluate
- Question
- Discussion
- Demonstration
- Creation
While having fun and creating something of their own creation the students were able to achieve the knowledge of how to be a safe digital citizen.
Project Based Learning played a key role in integrating the classroom environment and lessons with new technologies to better help enhance the learning capabilities of the students within.
Roosevelt's Elementary's PBL program is a way of bringing real world problems to the desk of the students. - Independent thinking
- Early Public Speaking practice
- Decision making
- Self-Motivation
- Real world skills
- Independent and group skills
- Curriculum integration
- Student Engagement
- Community Engagement
Kelia,
ReplyDeleteGreat blog post. You included all of your links to the videos, stayed consistent with the main ideas of each video, and shared exactly what information was valuable from each. I found no grammatical or spelling errors in your post. Keep up the good work, the end of the semester will be here sooner than you think!
Kelia,
ReplyDeleteI really liked your post. It was an exact summary of each video. You have a way of catching the main ideas of each video. I loved your choice for your picture and your blog page is really nice. You are a natural. Great job.