When finding the “Big Idea” for a project, we, as teachers,
need to relate whatever we are teaching to the real world. Connect it to their
community somehow so that they see the purpose.
While
teaching we need to plan on how this will help them develop 21st
century skills. We want our students to master the subject but to also know how
this applies to the real world. In order to do this we should make sure that we
hit every level of Bloom’s taxonomy: Analyze, Evaluate, Create.
We also
need to keep in mind teaching 21st century literacies. Students need
to be able to understand fully so that when they are finished with school they
have the literacy capabilities to go through life reading and writing.
There
are many learning functions that we need to cover as we teach. The first is
Ubiquity, which means that we need to teach students that they can learn
wherever they are and however they want and then we need to teach them how to
do that. The second function is Deep Learning, which means that we need to
teach students how to really dig deep in research to find more than just the
obvious information. The third function is Making things visible and
discussable, this means that we need to teach them how to turn subjects into a
visual object such as a concept map, and that we need to teach them the first
step into getting a conversation going. The fourth function is expressing
ourselves, this means we need to show them how to express their ideas and the
many ways to do so. The fifth function is collaboration, we need to teach students
about how peers and tools can help you to learn more about a certain topic. The
sixth function is research, sort of an obvious one, we need to teach students
to research things they don’t know about. The seventh function is project
management, this means that we need to teach students how to manage their time,
work and sources. The eighth and final function is Reflection, we also need to
teach students to look back at their work and to reflect and see what they
could have done differently so they can fix it next time.
Concepts
in this chapter relate to our project because these are the exact things we need
to incorporate into our lesson. Things like how to relate to the real world and
how to work through an assignment correctly.
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ReplyDeleteI like how you said we as teachers need to relate to real world Experiences. This actually makes sense to learn about what they are going to go through outside school.
ReplyDeleteAmy, I really enjoyed reading your reflection responses. Although some of your answers were short they got right to point. I liked reading about the learning functions, I think they can be very beneficial for students to learn and can really help them. When you were talking about the 21st century literacy’s, I think it would have helped to talk a little more in detail about what it is. What do they need to understand fully? I think it is also important to take what we are teaching and make a connection to their life that way it makes learning more interesting to the student. You had some really good ideas in your responses.
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