Well, starting with the “Back to the future video”. Once the video was finished, the first thought was, this is a great teacher. Obviously he cares on just about every aspect when it comes to his “kids”. He is very enthusiastic with all of his projects and gets real excited which gets the students involved.
When he was describing what students learn from 21st century tools, it really caught our attention. This is a very helpful and useful part of the video for us as future teachers. For example, learning how to collaborate, motivation, empowerment, and connection with others. Students will learn and practice all of these activities when using 21st century tools.
We also loved the fact that the child with cancer was brought in through skype and became an active member of the classroom. This teaches communication, understanding, tolerance, compassion, and learning to change each others lives.
We would, because of his new teaching plan, love to know what the kids knew after his class compared to their first day. It seems like if you are advocating a certain plan of teaching, backing it up with statistical data would help the cause. On top of which, he already mentioned the parts that they did not know. So, it would not be difficult to show their progression.
The most important aspect of this video is the teacher and his passion for teaching which makes things work in the classroom, and is more than a video on how technology has turned around a low income student based classroom from not knowing to knowing.
“Blended learning Cycle” video by: Paul Henderson
The first thing that struck us in the Blended Learning Cycle videa was how much we loved the tweet by Dr. Tae, “remember, it’s not fair to tell your students that grades are not important if you are ultimately giving your students grades.” True information for sure.
Thomas noticed that in the beginning of the video he mentioned doing a TED talk about making the class a video game. He watched the TED talk video which made this video much more understandable. Essentially, making the class a video game was quite difficult. There were many problems that led to many parts failing and needing revisions. Thomas feels this is why his approach changed overall. Mr. Anderson definitely believes it is okay to fail and that we learn from failure. This is definitely true and teachers should learn to rework failure. It has such a terrible connotation when it shouldn’t.
Anderson developed his “quivers” approach to teaching in response to his video game “failure”. Quivers seemed like a very good concept. We do not always like acronyms because they can detract from the actual concept, and people remember the acronym word and not what each part stands for. All we can remember is Questions, Videos, and Summary quiz. Colin found the video part to be idiotic and a waste of time. Not having anything that could spontaneously happen or be asked by the teacher while talking. Sitting and watching a video, only calls for distraction and daydreaming.
Jamie thinks the video would be a good idea because some students learn from watching videos. Most children or young adults grow up watching television, so maybe the video will teach them something they missed while investigating. We think the review step of “quivers” is very important because this is the step where the teacher can make sure the student he is reviewing, learns everything that was intended to be taught.
Thomas thinks that all students learn differently. So, having a video could be beneficial to some and not as beneficial to others. It would be important to have all of the knowledge learn-able in different ways. Thomas is a kinesthetic and auditory learner. So, the video would probably be beneficial to him., but for a visual kinesthetic learner the video may not be.
We also found it interesting that he is teaching AP Biology. Good for him and his students, but what about students in a poverty ridden neighborhood at a state school with minimal funds, would this process still work? He says we should start with a question, well that would be ours for him.
We learned from this teacher a great concept to use for our future classrooms. Although we might change a couple of steps in the “quivers” approach, overall it is a good idea.
“Making Thinking Visible” by: Mark Church
This video is pretty straight forward by having the kids watch a video, and then create a project that builds upon each weeks learning. We can learn from this video that critical thinking, analysis, and building upon what has already been learned is the fundamental building blocks to project based learning.
Hi Jamie
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog post. You guys covered some interesting points from each of the videos. However, instead of " For example, learning how to collaborate, motivation, empowerment, and connection with others. Students will learn and practice all of these activities when using 21st century tools." I would combine those two sentences into "Students will learn and practice collaboration, motivation, empowerment, and connectivity when using 21st century tools." But overall you guys did a really great job.
Your writing is clear and to the point. The last paragraph in the first video post was a bit confusing, and I am not sure it flows with the rest of the writing. I like how you guys clearly state each of your opinions throughout your post. One thing I might change is to not write everything in red. It is very difficult to read in that particular font color choice. Overall, nice work.
ReplyDeleteThe source for a picture is never "unknown" if you go the picture off the internet then it has a source. If it was a picture that a group member had then the source would be the group member. Please add a source to the picture.
ReplyDelete"He watched the TED talk video which made this video much more understandable" According to the Blog Post Instructions on Cooperative Blog Posts: "All members of the group must read or watch all of the assigned materials. Otherwise an appropriate critique is impossible." Just because a movie is assigned to one person, every member in the group should watch the video or read the assigned material. You can not accurately critique or use the information.
Please do not assume that the reader has watched the videos beforehand. On the last video summary, you did not tell about the video. Also, how will you use this information in your future classroom? It seems that not all of the group members have the same response and reflection for the last video.
Lindsey:
ReplyDeleteI got my picture from Girl About Town Blog. I could never find the name of the girl that created the blog.
When I read Dr. Strange's directions about the title modifier. He stated, "7. Type the source of your image. For example, if I were using a picture (or screenshot) that I had taken I would use Source: John H Strange. If you are unable to determine the source use Source: Unknown". I could not find the name of the girl that created the blog, so I listed it Unknown.
In our blog post, my group did watch all three videos. However, we did not always have the same opinions. We stated in the post when our opinions were different by saying "Jamie thinks...". If this is not how we are suppose to do it please let me know!