“It never made sense before.” Robert said.
His words hit me like a ton of bricks. They don’t tell you
in college that your students are going to show you how to teach. As Robert was
working on his response on our class blog I asked him why he had never shown me
he could write like that before and his response, “It never made sense before”
was eye opening. He went on to tell me that when he wrote with a pencil and
paper it wasn’t like his “real life” but when he was able to type his response
and share it with his classmates it suddenly made sense to him.
That day changed how I will teach forever. My students have
shown me through the use of technology that they want to learn by being social,
active, and reflective.
I love the ownership and engagement technology allows my
students. For me it now validates how I know students learn. My
students have made me an advocate for technology and 21st century
learning. My hope is that with these 20%
projects(and many more projects to come) that I will be able to help so many more students like
Robert “make sense” of their learning.
1. For my first project I created a website to organize all of
my 21st century learning projects & resources. I would like this
site to be resource beyond my classroom.
2. For my second project I worked with my primetime students. For
their PT service project my PT students decided they wanted to do
something on a smaller scale. After much debate they decided they wanted
to do something to help the 5th graders with their transition to the
middle school. They did a shared Google Presentation to brainstorm all of the
ideas. Once they were done they decided to make a video for them. Our
thoughts were to share it with 5th grade teachers and they could show it at the
end of the year if they want to.
3. For my third project I decided that I wanted to do a video
project with my classes while this is all fresh in my mind. It was a group project for all of my
classes. They have to write their own
scripts & record themselves. Once they were done I used YouTube video
editor to put it all together.
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