Posted on October 14th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
Tools and techniques used in the right way can scaffold learning.
Teachers often use them to direct student learning experiences. When students engage with those same tools and techniques for their own purposes, their successes increase motivation and independent learning.
For example, teachers often tell young students to “read to find out”–setting a purpose for their reading. [...]
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Filed under: My Middle School Tech Class, Powerpoint, Uncategorized, blogging, education, video
Posted on October 7th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
It’s been 4 years, just about, since our first set of technology studio rules were created by middle school students. The rules worked very well: there were only a few, they were positive statements, and easily understood by lower school students.
Computer Use Policy (Old Version)
Get Permission! (To get online, to make changes, to [...]
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Filed under: AUP, My Middle School Tech Class, education, ethics
Posted on May 13th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
I love this unit! It challenges students to demonstrate “competence” in a number of traditional skills, and then invites them to purposely put their own spin on the data, and decide what is important to communicate. Next, they make a graphical presentation which communicates “their” point about the data. It demonstrates a number [...]
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Filed under: Information Literacy, My Middle School Tech Class, education, graphics
Posted on March 24th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
Students are really enjoying this exercise!
Siblings have been enjoying commenting on sibling blogs (”You never tried octopus, how can you say you like all seafood?”)
Some students find it frustrating not knowing who made a comment.
Students are replying to comments on their “blogs” and inviting conversations.
Students are discussing the pros and cons of keeping negative or [...]
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Filed under: Body Image, My Middle School Tech Class, media, paper blog, social
Posted on March 19th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
It’s one way to get connected to a larger community. It can be used for educational purposes. It can be used to establish fleeting, or short-term relationships (”Can anyone out there tell me…?”) or it can be used for longer, mentoring relationships. It can also be a time-sink, abused, dangerous, unsafe.
I could be [...]
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Filed under: My Middle School Tech Class, education, media, paper blog, social
Posted on March 11th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
Ok, now that student evaluations are finally done…I am going to post those links to images that I find helpful, especially for inspiration,when talking with middle schoolers about making video. I’m really posting this for my own benefit (to have these links to video handy for next year)–which begs a question that I’m wrestling with [...]
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Filed under: Avatar, Cool Stuff I Found To Share, Machinima, My Middle School Tech Class, Web3D, media
