24Jan

Just Shoot Me

FILED IN Art | CEP 800 | CEP 815 | CEP 822 | Cognitive Tools | Content Area | Courses | Deep Play | Duration | Low | Quick | Required Skill | Technology No Comments

Abstract: As an introductory activity, Just Shoot Me, is specifically designed to immerse students in transformational learning, a theme that was emphasized throughout the entirety of the course.  Students were introduced to these themes through an activity that emphasized the cognitive skill of deep play. The activity required students to take a photograph of themselves that demonstrated an aspect of their personality or interests, and then share it with the class as a way of introducing themselves. In order to complete the activity successfully, students had to engage in deep play by thinking about their concept of self in new and different ways.

 

Description: Shortly after the beginning of class, students were given an hour to go outside of the classroom and take a photograph that represented themselves in a unique way.  The restrictions were that they could not take a traditional “head shot” type photograph, but one that included some context or artifiacts that were meaningful in some way.

 

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27Dec

Key topics Wiki

FILED IN Art | CEP 800 | CEP 815 | CEP 822 | Embodied Thinking | English | Foreign Language | Math | Medium | Modeling | Music | Perceiving | Project | Science | Social Studies | Technology No Comments

Abstract: Students work in groups on an informative multi-tiered WIKI on a provided topic, working either in class or as a distributed work team.

Description: Students are assigned or chose groups of 3-4. Each of the groups will be assigned a topic (see sample topics for the courses CEP 800, 815, and 822 below). The task as a group is to develop a WIKI on this given topic. Students should think of themselves as being “experts” on this given topic who are introducing this topic to the other groups in the class via this WIKI. These topics provided will be relevant for the overall assignment (in the case of the original courses, CEP 800, 815, and 822 the development of a lesson plan) as well. The WIKI should consist of a series of pages, broadly described below:

  • A summary page on the front end of the WIKI that offers an introduction to the topic at hand. This page should address general issues of definition, categorization, broad themes etc.
  • This broad description should link to a set of sub-pages that offer an annotated list of key online resources about that topic. The goal is to not link willy-nilly to any resource out there but rather quality resources that could be useful to someone seeking to learn more about the topic (or sub-topics) brought up in the first page.

The topics (from CEP 800, 815, and 822) are:

  • Developing information literacy, technology skills (in students)
  • Meeting the diverse needs of your students, assistive technologies, particularly through the idea of Universal Designs for Learning (UDL)
  • Social and ethical uses of technology (particularly digital equity, intellectual property, and copyright) and healthy practices in the use of educational technology
  • Using Technology to Facilitate/Develop Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills in Students
  • Using Technology to Engage in Professional Development & Leadership

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