tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517908.post7808831461672314895..comments2023-10-25T05:38:53.715-04:00Comments on ITS Think Tank: "So what?”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517908.post-31922386023349141822007-05-27T11:25:00.000-04:002007-05-27T11:25:00.000-04:00When the students' audience is extended beyond the...When the students' audience is extended beyond the classroom, the project becomes more important to them. They want to communicate with and please someone besides themselves and their teacher. The assignment becomes more than just a hoop to jump through on the way to the summer or to the next grade. It becomes a way to find a voice and to be seen, heard and understood. <BR/>Your project, without the videotaping, would have covered the basics and was collaborative and project-based. It addressed multiple intelligences and was cross-curricular. It is an excellent project on its own. What takes it one GIANT leap forward is the videotaping and sharing of that tape beyond the classroom. <BR/>Watch students as you pull out a camera to take a good project and make it better. You see personality; you see excitement; you see engagement. Listen to the students and the teacher when they are filming and producing the tape. You hear ownership of the project; you hear reflection on the process and a desire to do a good job; you hear self critiques and requests to do that again so “we” can be sure “they” understand. The project becomes more than getting things in the correct order without true understanding. It becomes a way to communicate with others with clarity. “Teaching others” is an incredible way to learn. Students and teachers become collaborators. They stand together in their pride.<BR/>Even without the “sharing” aspects of this project, students can see their own work in a medium that they understand. They know when a video makes sense in a way they don’t always understand the written word. They can evaluate the final product and recognize, critique, and reflect on their own learning. And guess what, in a well planned project they have had to read, write, plan, and understand a process in order to produce the video.Ashlynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00705594598150352184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517908.post-68361563743733027232007-05-17T09:35:00.000-04:002007-05-17T09:35:00.000-04:00So why does your lesson matter?Because you taught ...So why does your lesson matter?<BR/><BR/>Because you taught them how to think, rather than what to think.<BR/><BR/>Found this quote, which sums up my philosophy of education.<BR/>The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.<BR/>by Bill Beattie<BR/><BR/>Why Videotape?<BR/><BR/>To share.<BR/><BR/>A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.<BR/>By Kahlil GibranAaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826512159635505690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517908.post-74715633078343709862007-05-17T09:09:00.000-04:002007-05-17T09:09:00.000-04:00Tell me, I will forgetShow me, I may remember In...Tell me, I will forget<BR/>Show me, I may remember <BR/>Involve me, and I will understand.<BR/><BR/>While I am still trying to figure out my own response, I can't help but think about the above Chinese Proverb.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826512159635505690noreply@blogger.com