Blog Post 2
Among all the options of topics for this Blog, Open Pedagogy stood out to me because I hadn’t heard of it before. After a brief google search, I still wasn’t sure whether the approach was robust enough to really warrant its classification as a style of teaching or learning. So …
Blog Post 1
Experimenting with Assessment “How many marks is this worth?”“Will this be part of our grade?”“Is this good enough to get a B?” In my relatively short time as a classroom teacher, I have undoubtedly seen the symptoms of grade fixation described by Alfie Kahn in the video “Why Grades Shouldn’t …
Introduction
Welcome, and thank you for perusing my blog! The first thing that comes to mind as I write is that I should really be outside right now! Hot July days such as this are meant for beach-lounging, hiking, ice-cream eating, and all the learning that can only happen when you …
Digital Escape Rooms in the ELA Classroom
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 …
Free Inquiry: Final Post
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 …
Inquiry: A Culture, Not an Activity
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 …
Sketchnoting
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 …
Free Inquiry Week 7: Still Life Completed!
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 …
Games in Education: Considerations and Possiblities
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 …