This morning, while reading over my Google BUZZ updates, I came across a posting from Darren Draper, who linked a post from Wesley Fryer about Passion-based learning in action. (Side note, Wesley Fryer will be one of the keynote speakers at the upcoming 2010 Christa McAuliffe technology conference ) I am currently working on a course with over 30 teachers from my school, and we have been talking about standards, unpacking them, and not narrowing the curriculum for the tests sake. What a better way to show real, authentic learning experiences, with any population of students. Anything is possible. We know poverty exists, we know some of our students are underachievers, we know some of our students have family problems, yes.. we know.. now what?
I watch this video and say YES! I say YES Brian Crosby, you are amazing and inspirational! This is what I see. This is the futre I want for my students at my school. This is real, this is now, this is amazing and so very, very authentic. I am sure you will agree.
Please be open minded when viewing, as there are always many barriers as to why things like this may not work in your school or your classroom. Starting small - a blog, a wiki, a skype, connecting with other teachers / students is just one way to begin your amazing journey with technology. I encourage you to just try. Baby steps. The more comfortable you feel, the braver you become. I know I feel really brave today after watching this, how about you?
2 comments:
I loved this video. I think it is so great for kids to be learning to post things and have a sense of ownsership to these creations, and to more importantly see that other people are looking at them/reading them/are interested and what they have to say! It makes me all the more excited to have my students be bloggers this upcoming year!
Oh my goodness. I just watched this video and had to show it to my husband too!! This video got me so excited and got me thinking about my own classroom! I basically have no technology in my room... just one desktop computer. This video is inspiring me to somehow get more technology in the classroom. Not to mention this guy is a great teacher!! The balloon unit was AMAZING! WOW! If only I could be as good as this guy...
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