https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/student-assessment-with-tech
*** https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/create-digital-story-ypp
https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/students-marching-to-learn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4WmvmUcOKI
These were just some of the videos that I watched. I took something from all of them, but not all technological, many just a reminder of good teaching practices. I chose to respond to the 3* video in slot #2.
- What is the purpose of the lesson - The purpose of the lesson was to critically think and process what the students learned about the American Creed by creating a Digital Story. She had various parts of the Unit to process and collaborate with a partner to develop their thoughts and reflect about what it means to them to be American.
- Ask yourself: How do you know the students are learning? I can see that the students are learning because they are interacting to the materials by reflecting on their own heritage and experience with their own critical thinking about what it means, to them, to be American. They are putting what they learned and know about the American documents by quoting them through known historical figures that they can relate to and know about by telling their meaning and truth of how they see communities and cultures in the country throughout time by quoting historical figures and reflecting on what they were known for and how they changed our country into what it is today and putting their own spin each Digital Story.
- Ask yourself: What is the teacher doing? I.E. What elements of the lesson (pedagogy, modeling, questioning techniques, etc) did you observe? Was there anything different about them from “traditional” learning?
4. Could you potentially use this lesson? As I am teaching Benchmarks and we are teaching the Constitution we are learning all of the things that this high school class is learning. I could totally do this project as a culmination to what we have learned throughout the unit. To make it attainable, I too, would use the quotes for the students to pull from the literature and respond to with poetry, speeches and various kinds of literature. I would start on a much smaller scale of coarse with maybe just a few slides instead of an entire production. I may also use partners to create the actual project, instead of each student having their own. I love the idea of the driving question being the open ended question to their learning.