Curriculum 21 by Jacobs Heidi Hayes.;Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development.;

Author:Jacobs, Heidi Hayes.;Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Published: 2010-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Improving Best Practice with Technology

Every coach is searching for ways to tweak the best plays, and the teachers at Mabry, all focused on becoming even better academic coaches, are no exception. How could we leverage the students' interest in sharing their work? How could we get exemplary student work to a larger audience? How could we increase students' positive emotional connection to curriculum? How could we improve the quality of the students' finished products? How could we entice them to think more deeply, to take even greater ownership of their school work, and to work at even higher levels on Bloom's taxonomy? And, while we're at it, why don't we just have them make the whole world a better place, too?

After some excited discussions with the subject area coordinators about authentically engaging students in a learning process that focused on producing high-quality, digital-knowledge products that everyone—the students, their peers, their parents, the community at large—found of great value, the Mabry PTSA purchased 10 Apple iBooks, and the school purchased one digital video camera. Mabry students, with the help of their teachers, were going to push the boundaries of the classroom and learning in the school setting and attempt to augment the very language of education. We were going to build on the Academic Night in an unprecedented way. We were going to have a film festival, and all of the movies were going to be produced by the students themselves! Could we even do such a thing?

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