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Circling ‘Round Teacher Created Learning Resources
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How often do we feel like our work will never be done in education? I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to escape the circular reasoning behind the notion that “teachers don’t have time to create their own learning resources.” I believe that notion to be completely false, yet walk into any school building and you’ll easily find a good majority of teachers that claim they’re too busy to worry about “one more thing”. Perhaps….but what if the reason they feel so overwhelmed is that the time they do have has been structured to be inefficient and cluttered ...
Puzzle: What book, movie or historical event?
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Want to see your students engaged in a creative activity? Want them thinking about the important parts of a story, movie, instructional video, or historical event? Do you want your students engaged using higher order synthesizing techniques rather than regurgitating low level facts? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then I have a very creative activity for you and, more importantly, your students. In my first year Digital Storytelling course (DS106), Tim Owens challenged participants with a unique Visual Assignment called “The Four Icon Challenge” which he describes as follows: Reduce a movie, story, or event into ...