Lesson 9 - School 2.0, Part 1 - 21st Century Students and Skills

Finally - a post for lesson 9! I struggled with this podcast as a means to get ideas for instruction. I won't mention his name since he is on Google alert! I like his little quips and I found his insights on internet safety to be very valuable. As I reflected on the podcast I kept coming back to collaboration - thinking of his Model T lesson. I have my students collaborate a lot at the K-1 level. I think a team writing experience between two classrooms would be very exciting for them. Many times in my classroom, we start a story and pass it to teams to write the next part. The kids get very excited about the possibilities. I think you could do the same on a Wiki... Start a story and pass it to a team of students in another classroom. They could illustrate and scan a picture on to match their text. then it would come back tot he first team to add the next part and so on. You could have multiple stories going. When they are complete, the teams could video themselves acting them out and put the videos on the Wiki. We could then compare the performances for the different ways the students interpreted the story. The more I write, the more this seems like a monumental task but maybe not...