Ok, in my last blog I offered my 2 cents about how school can be a more rewarding place to be for teachers and students and that was that there needed to be clear points where celebration is possible. That would mean that students would have worked hard to reach a clear benchmark that indicates they have learned something significant and demonstrated it clearly. So can technology make it easier to structure instruction so that these high-five moments are possible? I think so.
Here's a quick example, I work with a teacher who is lucky enough to have a 2-1 ration of students to computers. She started having students create a movie project at the end of each unit where the students had a particular topic that they had to teach through their movie. There is a lot of flexibility on how to go about teaching the topic, but that is their task. She noted that before having students create movies at the end of the unit, there would always be at least 5 students that would fail the end of unit test. On the first unit where students created iMovies (a unit on the atom and the periodic table), no one scored below a 75% on the unit test. What an incredible gain! I think that having no grade below a C on an assessment is a great reason to celebrate!
Ok even more about my love affair with technology and how it improves the classroom environment in my next post! : )
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