Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Chapter 3 Creating
By creating a product with the information from part one of chapter three, we were forced to take apart the information given to us and put it back together again as our project. Because I had to synthesize the text by Dan Pink, I have a deeper understanding of the content. What a great lesson for me as a teacher. I want my students to have a deeper rooted understanding, so I should give them tasks that call for sythesizing.
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I completely agree, we need to get our students to learn for themselves and from each other. The trouble is going to come when we try to implement the new lessons and have difficulty breaking from our old ways. It will be worth the growing pains in the end.
ReplyDeleteI thought a synthesizer was a musical instrument (jk!!!)
ReplyDeleteI agree, that responding in this format was an excellent way to see the whole picture of the chapter. It was interesting that very few groups actually talked for their presentation...I (an old lady) wanted to watch the digital presentations again...my slow brain needed a second look:)
Amen,sister! We all had to work at a high level of Bloom's so we could transfer the information to apply to education. Too many times as a teacher, I never took my students to that next level to make learning relevant to their lives!
ReplyDeleteAnd what are we told to be teaching our students: synthesize and all the higher levels on Bloom's list. What Danielle says is true. It will be difficult to break from the old ways, but it stretches our minds which will keep us young.
ReplyDeleteHey, Amy, synthesizing is so internally exhilarating, and the new term high concepts from Ch. 3 rings true for these new tech cooperative activities.
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