I have read quite a bit about ideas for dynamic versus static learning. Static learning is the old-school (pun intended) way of teaching and learning and dynamic is well, not that. Theory is great but when it comes down to brass tacks, concrete examples of what it means to do dynamic learning in the classroom are sometimes harder to come by. This post actually shows some real examples of assignments that capture the differences between these models. I have to admit, the projects in the dynamic learning sound really compelling. What do you think?
One of the things I want to share with you this week is on Google Docs. I am sure many of you already know this, but I did not. We have a project at school called the Creative Dialogue. This project is groups of students who develop a project together and progress through the project creation over several weeks. As you know, when you have group projects it is often difficult to know who did what- how did each student participate? Did they all participate somehow? Though it is not fool-proof, when you create folders and share them with your students as a place to keep their documents, you can also keep track of who wrote what on the document. As I mentioned, I am sure it is not fool-proof, but it does reflect the login for each student. Also helpful is the ability to keep track of the drafts they do. It saves everything based on drafts and you can look at the previous drafts by date to see how they have progressed. So, not only does it save paper as th...
Please name your future posts "Week XXX" so that I can keep track where you are.
ReplyDeleteAlso, no need to post three seperate posts for each blog you read. Enough to summarize the three in one post. But obviously you are allowed to post trice if you so want to.