by Brian | Jun 19, 2006 | Blogging, Brian Crosby, Change, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Email, Field Trips, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
There is much rumination in the edblogosphere about what education and schools should look like in this way or that. Kids should be blogging, using web 2.0 applications (Wikis, podcasts, Flickr, the flavor-of-the-week app), in conjuction with project-based,...
by Brian | Jun 15, 2006 | Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
I mentioned in an earlier post that some of the most important learning that happens isn’t part of your lesson plan because you can’t account for everything that MIGHT happen during a project. Here are some recent examples from our most recent video project. One...
by Brian | Jun 15, 2006 | Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Diatoms, 3500x magnification, taken with scanning electron microscope, University of Nevada, Reno – by John Kevin McCormack When I was first exposed to the idea of having students do project work, I remember the presenters saying that it was the process that was...
by Brian | Jun 11, 2006 | Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
My class finished our latest video project on the last day of school (Wednesday). We were under such a time crunch that groups were literally doing voiceover work the last day as we also moved my stuff to the room I’ll be in next year. We started the project in...
by Brian | May 31, 2006 | Blogging, Brian Crosby, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Possibly the most recurring theme that makes the rounds of the edbloggosphere is why the nation, states, school districts, schools and teachers have not been more open to change. Change in how schools do school, embrace technology and project-based, problem-based...
by Brian | May 30, 2006 | Brian Crosby, Cooperative Learning, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Since a few years before NCLB really raised it’s head, standardized testing was already a fact of life for “Title 1†schools (law for “Improving The Academic Achievement Of The Disadvantaged”) and we started to have mandatory “Research-based...
