Blog Post 11

What can we learn about teaching and learning from these teachers?

TedXDenverEd-Brian Crosby-Back to the Future

Brian Crosby shows in his TedX Talk that disadvantage students can achieve success just as any other student. They can use technology to keep these students engaged at all times. Every student has access to a laptop. They blog regularly, which keeps them connected to other students around the world. He also uses project based learning to establish the Balloon in space project. It's exciting when they are so willing to active in a project, and actually learn from it.



Blended Online Learning

In this video Paul Anderson goes on to tell how blended learning is ground for online learning, mobile learning, and classroom learning compiled into one. The Learning Cycle consist of the 5 E's, which are, engaged, expand, explain, and evaluate. He also stresses that questions are the key factor to any lesson being taught.
In his science class he uses the following six steps:
1. Question
2. Investigation/Inquiry
3. Video
4. Elaboration
5. Review
6. Summary Quiz
He uses the acronym QuIVERS in these steps.



Mark Church Demonstrates the "Headline" Routine

In Mark Church's Headline activity, he has all of his students watch a video for their introduction to their lesson. After the video they are supposed to brainstorm together in groups to create a "headline" for it. Students then can revise their headline at the end of the lesson to reflect what they have learned. He says this strategy works well with Project Based Learning.



Super Digital Citizen

In Sam Pane's class, he teaches his students about internet safety. He teaches them through an idea of being a "super digita citizen". They are super hero's, and are used in real world situational narratives. The students all create a comic book on their super hero helping them with internet safety. At the end of this project they were able to show their class as an audience, then discuss their work.



Project Based Learning

In this video, Dean Shareski shows how Canadian teachers are using PBL. Their journey of combing English, History, and Technology into one single subject. At fist they were coming in contact with problems, and teachers came to the conclusion that it could not work in a typical school day setting. Now the teachers prefer this PBL structure, and the students as well. They are able to participate in PBL assignments with themselves and interact with their classmates.



Roosevelt Elementary's Project Based Learning Program

Roosevelt Elementary shows in this video what project based learning is, and explains its benefits in this video.
They use real world application in all of their learning. PBL also allows students to work by themselves and with others. This builds their social skills and independence that they will use throughout life. This way no one is left out, the teachers differentiate instructions to engaged all their students intelligence levels. Roosevelt Elementary says that their students are motivated, engaged, and excited about all of their learning in project based learning. It just goes to show how well this strategy really works.