By Karlie and Amber Introduction Escape rooms provide fun and engaging opportunities for people to exercise their problem solving skills while working together with others. Based on their recreational popularity, escape rooms seem to be intrinsically motivating, at least for some. When engagement intersects with intellectual challenge, as seems to …
At the beginning of this process, I set many goals for myself and had a lot of ideas for paintings that I wanted to create and materials and techniques that I wanted to try. Well, it’s now the end of the semester, and while I can’t say I met all …
My understanding of inquiry-based learning has really evolved throughout the past semester. Inquiry has been a big topic of discussion in several of my classes, and I am also working on a couple of inquiry projects that have been assigned for class. The idea that I currently have about inquiry-based …
When in doubt, sketch it out. I wish I had learned about sketchnoting closer to the beginning of my University career. While I often incorporated drawings into my notes, I never considered the possibilities of sketchnoting as a specific method of notetaking. Throughout school I have found notetaking to be …
I have officially completed the still life painting! Here’s an review of the whole process: My reflections on this process: Persistence is key! There were a few times where I wasn’t sure what I was doing but I found that the key to overcoming creative blocks or confusion was to …
I was excited by the idea of learning about Gaming in Education this week, because, like many people, I think that games can be really fun. While I can’t recall ever playing games in High School, I can imagine that it would have been an exciting addition to learning in …
While 3D Printing was certainly around when I was in high school, I always saw it as something that was far off from my current reality- a fancy technology accessible only to the fanciest of engineers or scientists. Even in university, while I was vaguely aware of 3D printing becoming …
I’ve made some real progress on the still life this past week! See below a picture of where I left off last time, compared to where I’m at now: I’m super proud of how this is looking! I managed to work out the background and ended up with a really …
I enjoyed participating in an edcamp as part of our Edtech class this week! What I love about Edcamps is how they encourage collaboration between educators in a way that is inquiry-driven and learner-directed, a style which reflects the ideas of authentic pedagogy that we’ve been learning about in several …
This week I resumed working on the still life painting I started back in week 3. Rotten tomatoes notwithstanding, I am actually feeling pretty good about the direction this work is heading in. Here’s where I ended up last time: And here’s where I am currently, after about another hours …