The article “Let it Snow” by Kathy Sanders and Gwen Pavelski is from the February 2009 magazine. I really liked the fact that in this class, students had an opportunity to learn while enjoying learning. I think this always helps the students and the teacher. In this case, students seemed to have a good response on the activity. This activity was relevant to the students since it was based on snow. Living in Wisconsin and witnessing history of the greatest snowfalls in their city, these students were ready to learn more. Snow was integrated in their learning in research, reading, and science. Technology was effective in their research for the calculations of the amount of snowfall. These students also used technology to take photographs, digital video interviews, computer art, and more. Students had positive results and seemed to learn more than what was expected.
I would love to incorporate activities for students that are relevant in their lives. For example, this could be used in southern California with rainfall. I think this could help students learn so much about where they live and how they can help to make a difference while learning skills in science and technology. This once again shows the importance of getting the students interested and capturing their attention for better learning. Most students love technology and it is our duty to find was to use it and allow them to learn while using it.
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Just the fact that you are focusing in something outside of of book gives the student a break; that's why I think that it is important to do projects like this. I saw a teacher do something similar to this during my observations last semester. The maid idea was to recollect information about animals native to your region and find pictures of your animal of choice. then write some sort of bibliography along the picture. I thought it was interesting and practical, since the students got to use the internet and print out the info they needed.
ReplyDeleteThat's really nice! I think students have a little more room for creativeness in these kinds of projects.
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