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Kip Holland-Anderson

Verde River is focus of students' expeditionary learning - The Prescott Daily Courier -... - 0 views

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expeditionary_learning pbl HS Science

shared by Kip Holland-Anderson on 13 May 11 - No Cached
  • Kip Holland-Anderson on 13 May 11
     
    "This semester the Northpoint ninth-graders focused on the Verde River. Along with studying the native flora and fauna, they tackled the complex geology, hydrology, water law and water quality issues related to the local river. They created a children's book for local middle school kids, and practiced their statistical skills by surveying Prescott residents about their knowledge of local water issues, student Vivian Cook related. They created posters that featured maps, charts and drawings of more than a dozen subcategories, from macroinvertebrates to invasive fish to water quality. "
Laura Wedeven

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Games clock game math

shared by Laura Wedeven on 14 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Laura Wedeven on 14 Jun 11
     
    Website allows students to practice telling time before and after the hour.
Kip Holland-Anderson

Why Project-Based Learning Can Improve Motivation And Relevance In Your Classroom - 0 views

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shared by Kip Holland-Anderson on 01 May 11 - No Cached
  • Project-based learning is not without its difficulties for both students and teachers. Technology can be employed to support the learning efforts of both students and teachers as they work on their projects.
  • Teachers are concerned about motivation as well as technical issues of thinking and learning.
  • teacher must be concerned with motivation, because this motivational energy will help students processed in the face of challenging lesson material
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  • Researchers have found substantial evidence that focusing on relatively long term problems that require meaningful engagement with challenging subjects that integrate ideas from a number of diverse disciplines in which is supported by practical and useful technology can help overcome many classroom challenges and prepare students for practical and relevant skills for the future.
  • Problem-based learning at once allows groups of students to collaborate, to apply themselves in real-world challenges that demonstrate the relevance of the material, explore and integrate information from across multiple domains and allow the teacher to adopt the role of facilitator and co-learner rather than as the single point of expertise in the classroom.
  • In this framework, teachers are well employed as a master craftsman who provide just enough scaffolding in order to ensure students can remain on task and productive rather than floundering without guidance.
Shari Moore

Raising Readers and Writers » Blog Archive » Opening Doors Through National W... - 1 views

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writing digital workshop

shared by Shari Moore on 04 May 11 - No Cached
  • My own teaching practice has gone through a metamorphosis. My students write for authentic purposes and audiences and they see themselves as authors. How does that happen? I treat them with respect and I honor their voices. I focus on what my students CAN do and support them as they continue to make progress as writers. Every child is successful in my classroom. Students have choice in what they write. I no longer use “story starters” where each student writes to the same inauthentic prompt and moves along through the writing process at the same pace. It’s noisy and messy in our room most of the time because real learning is happening. Our classroom is a community of learners where diverse ideas are accepted and successes are celebrated. My students write informative pieces, narratives, poetry, songs, stories, scripts, and publish in a variety of ways: blogs, Glogs, posters, published books that are part of our classroom library, Voice Thread, wikis, podcasts and iMovies. My students learn through writing as they think critically and problem solve.
Kip Holland-Anderson

Cakes, Snakes and Boxes: Passion-based Learning & Early Literacy | Powerful Learning Pr... - 1 views

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Inquiry K-2 iPad PBL

shared by Kip Holland-Anderson on 22 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • I have wondered for a long time how passion and project based learning would change my primary classroom
  • The questions came very slowly at first (they had only been in my class a couple of days and we were still getting to know each other), but by the end of our discussion, all of the students had had at least one question.
  • As they formulated their questions, I gave them a card with I wonder… printed on it, and they went to a table to draw a picture of their question. As each picture was finished, I printed the words to end their question for them, and the children trotted off to our Wonder Wall to post them. 
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  • Some questions the students wondered about couldn’t be answered by their working on their own. “I wonder if there are patterns in my basement?” needed some parent support. “I wonder if snakes have patterns?” meant I needed to share an informational picture book with the class. The question above about patterning with cake meant that I had to do some baking.
  • At the end of the unit, each of the children produced a digital artifact to show what they had learned. These were all posted on their blogs. As this was the first time we had done this, I reminded them of what our objectives were at the beginning, and gave some ideas of ways they might choose to express what they knew, although I was open to their ideas as well. Some students chose to animate their patterns with Animationish or make a digital picture and record their voices with Audioboo. Others chose to use the iPad app ScreenChomp and made a screencast. A few made posters and explained them while another student recorded it on video.
  • I loved the fact that we could learn curriculum outcomes based on what the students (not the teacher’s guide or myself) chose. Digital artifacts have been a part of my classroom for a long time, but I prized the specificity of the ones we created this time. I have some still-forming ideas for ways I want the next unit to be better. However it turns out, I think I’m hooked. And I’m definitely still learning.
  • Kip Holland-Anderson on 22 Oct 11
     
    A great model of inquiry in a primary classroom.
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