Think of a time in your life that you had a problem that you solved creatively on your own. For example, once I was baking something that was bigger than my bread pan. I decided to "build" the pan up by adding about 2 inches of tin foil--worked great!
Think of something you were interested in enough to learn on your own. I have a whole list of such things, but one was wikis and for that matter, lots of other 2.0 tools.
Describe your learning (and your remembering) of one of these occasions. Did it coincide with some of the information from this last chapter? Was your head down on the desk? Were you bored?
Now, think about providing that experience for a group of 25 students in your class. Think of it as exploration, problem-solving. How would a baby go about coming up with this answer?
Think of something you were interested in enough to learn on your own. I have a whole list of such things, but one was wikis and for that matter, lots of other 2.0 tools.
Describe your learning (and your remembering) of one of these occasions. Did it coincide with some of the information from this last chapter? Was your head down on the desk? Were you bored?
Now, think about providing that experience for a group of 25 students in your class. Think of it as exploration, problem-solving. How would a baby go about coming up with this answer?
Yesterday was our last meeting and we watched the video by Dan Meyer and discussed how it related to us and where we as a school were headed. I also talked about the lesson plans that coach belz and myself were putting together. We worked 4 saturdays to make lesson plans for science, math, pe and language arts that incorporate brain movement games that can be done in the classroom. These will be available for any staff to use. All in all it was a good meeting and a good group to work with. I hope we continue to incoporate brain games into the whole curricullum since we are only touching the tip of the ice-berg here. Bye all, coach Gill
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