Blog Post #11

After watching all 6 videos, I've come to conclusion that the one I really liked the most would 
have to be BACK TO THE FUTURE by Brian Crosby. I think he had some really cool ideas for projects. The hot air balloon project was one I really found interesting. Not only did the students learn but they had the ability to use technology while doing it. In today's world, just about everything involves the use of some technology and allowing the kids to use it a very young age I think is a really great idea.  

In Blended Learning Cycle, Paul Anderson talked about the process of blended learning together which is the compelling design of mobile, online and classroom. He also uses the acronym Q.U.I.V.E.R.S which is his way of remembering the blended learning cycle. This simply stands for Questions, Investigation, Video, Elaboration, Review and Summary quiz.

    In the next video, Making Thinking Visible, Mark Church had his students to watch a video about early human beginnings. Then the Students would have to come up with a headline that tells you what he or she learned.  Later the Students worked together to come up with this phrase and write them down. Last they all were told to hang up their headlines and two weeks later to go back and look and them and see if anything had changed. I personally believe this was a really unique exercise Mr. Church had his students complete

 In Teaching Digital Citizenship which is by a fifth grade teacher in Omaha, Nebraska by the name of Sam Pane. Basically what he talks about is  teaching his class how to be good digital citizens.  This simply means teaching proper behavior and setting appropriate prohibitions. Watching what you post and the things that you share online because later in life you don't want those things to come back and haunt you in future. I think we can learn a number of things from Mr. Pane.

Roosevelt Elementary's PBL just shows you how Project Based Learning is used in the school. These projects are very helpful not only to us as teachers but to our students as well. PBL is something that we will continues to use throughout our career.