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Transitioning each course to an online version that is meaningful, effective, and leverages the online learning medium is proving to be a very daunting task.
Engage: Hero is Called
I am going to be transitioning all of my class websites from traditional Google Sites to simple Google Documents.
This week students were challenged to solve this case taken directly from the movie A Few Good Men.
Students keep track of their own progress on standards, while I keep track of progress on a paper sheet, and update quarterly.
This school year I have decided to streamline the process, adding instructions, embedded video, and rubrics to the slide template students will work in.
The below lesson is only an outline meant to encourage deeper thinking about the 5E cycle.
The goal of the first few weeks is to answer the question "What is Robotics?"
By finding a visualization, downloading it, removing specific information (titles, legends, keys, etc.) and displaying it to students, questions emerge.
I have written to annoying lengths about my love for the connection between the 5E Inquiry Learning Cycle and Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey.
It does me no good as an educator to engage in debates around the efficacy of grading.
My final "stack of papers" to grade was a shared folder full with our final lab practical reports: a group experiment where students determined the optimal H2-O2 ratio to fill a 2L bottle fo for maximum product upon ignition.
It reminded me how explaining a difficult concept to a novice and expert audience simultaneously requires deep conceptual knowledge, and how listening to such an explanation helps to build simultaneous conceptual and mechanical knowledge of a concept.
Often times a powerful video can simultaneously engage AND demotivate students by "inducing" curiosity, while also explaining the content that underlies the phenomena.
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