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Derek Doucet

Next Vista for Learning - 1 views

www.nextvista.org

GAFE Edtech inspiration

shared by Derek Doucet on 07 Dec 14 - Cached
  • Derek Doucet on 07 Dec 14
     
    A great site for resources and teacher videos to jazz people up about the shift.
lesmcbeth

30 Ways to Inspire Divergent Thinking - InformED : - 1 views

www.opencolleges.edu.au/...divergent-thinking

DesignThinking DivergentThinking

shared by lesmcbeth on 02 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • lesmcbeth on 02 Feb 16
     
    Some great tips for how to encourage your students to think divergently and come up with many possible solutions to any given problem.
Derek Doucet

What Project-Based Learning Is - and What It Isn't | MindShift - 3 views

blogs.kqed.org/...ect-based-learning-is-and-isnt

ProjectBasedLearning pedagogy collaboration Technology SAMR

shared by Derek Doucet on 22 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • For Terronez, the goal is to always connect classroom learning to its applications in the outside world.
  • If you inspire them to care about it and draw parallels with their world then they care and remember,”
  • takes a lot of diligent planning by the teacher to design projects that give students space to explore themes and real-world resonance to make it meaningful for them. And it takes trust in the students, as well.
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  • hen students arrived on the first day of school they found an empty classroom. The first project Terronez asked his students to undertake was designing their own learning space, one that would support experience-based, collaborative learning.
  • Terronez asked his students to design an iPod app that would solve a real-world problem. They came up with an idea, designed the display icon, figured out how users would navigate the app, prototyped sample tabs, then pitched their mock-up to an audience.
  • In a project exploring air pressure, Terronez’s students built their own hovercrafts using a leaf blower as the engine. When the hovercrafts worked, the students designed 3D representations of themes from “Freedom Fighters,” a Discovery School education video about racial struggles featuring the stories of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King. Their creations were featured in a hovercraft parade on Election Day.
  • Take a look at High Tech High art teacher Jeff Robin’s video explaining the difference between project-oriented learning and project-based learning.
  • Derek Doucet on 22 Jan 15
     
    A good explanation of the importance of rooting learning in authenticity. It would be interesting to explore this all with the different lenses of TPACK, TIM, SAMR
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