Project Based Learning: Part 1 and Part 2
In the videos concerning Public Based Learning Anthony Capp spoke about how he had his class write letters to send to Congressmen. This is just one example of how we can use project based learning. The students voted and decided to send off only a certain number of letters and when they got responses back they were super excited. Anthony Capp seems to really care about his students and being a great educator. He and Dr. Strange gave me many ideas that I can incorporate into my classroom one day, and the idea of PBL will definitely be one of them.
I had never heard of iCurio but I really liked the things it allowed you to do. It opens the door for children to be able to go and search for factual information that they can learn from. Anthony talked about how it has been a transition for him to start using technology such as drives and folders to store things. iCurio can help you store and organize your things and keep them very accessible for you.
This tool gives students a visual component to the text they are studying. It not only helps keep them engaged, but it helps them retain information as well. I feel like this could be a great resource for teachers to use in the classroom. Anthony commented on how he is not an expert on all things and he is constantly learning new things along with his students. Discovery Education can be used to bring experts into the classroom for the students.
Dr. Strange and Anthony Capp teamed up in this video to give us some tips for when we are educators. A few things they talked about really stood out to me. As Dr. Strange is always telling us, it is important that we as educators want to learn ourselves. This is going to be a huge part of our job one day. How can we expect our students to learn new things if we ourselves do not like doing the same thing? Also, it is important that we are flexible and creative. Sometimes things just do not work out the way we planned. We need to be able to overcome this obstacle and still make sure our students are getting what we need them to learn. Finally I really feel that keeping our students engaged during class time is extremely important. There are ways that teachers can make things interesting and more appealing to our students. Our children need to stay together, learning, not leaving anyone behind.
Anthony Capp talks about the importance of technology and how we should not teach it, but instead allow the students to use it and learn from it. Students years younger than me are easily picking up on new programs and learning all the ways it works. They are learning by physical use of the technologies instead of someone giving them step by step instructions.
Great job!
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