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nenuco blog nenuco blog saturday november 10 2012 encouraging students to have pride in their work part 1 my 8 yr old aubrey created a home design on floorplaner com her 6 year old sister sydney was clicking around and switched to one of her previous revisions aubrey was furious because she thought she had lost all her work she was yelling at sydney as i tried to calm her down and said we don t need to yell she said dad i know but you don t know how much hard work i put into that it dawned on me because she created it and had ownership of it she was extremely proud of her work one of the biggest problems with my class was that to often kids didn t take any pride in their work they didn t care why would they it is hard to care about their 845th math worksheet in their academic career or their 397th math test there is no personalization boring now that we have switched to project based learning and have students create presentations and present them i am seeing a change they get to create their own presentations we give them many choices and have very few requirements or restrictions they get to be themselves by having them present their work they take ownership of it i have had numerous students want to present their math journals to the other kids they put the time in to make it good the math teacher in me every once in awhile rears its ugly head and i wonder if i am doing enough math problems then i see a presentation or have a conversation with a student who is interested in what they are doing and it reassures me of this taking pride in your work and wanting to be their best can t compare with a repetition of problems before they would leave their graded test on the floor now they are asking to present work to their classmates you can argue the old school way of teaching is better for standardized tests but i m not going back never will posted by unknown at 12 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 6 2012 redskin rule got them talking i either heard this on t v or i read it on twitter the redskin rule is a meaningless interesting stat since 1940 there have been 18 washington redskins home football games the weekend before the election in either 18 out of 18 or 17 out of 18 bush vs kerry long story this has rung true if washington wins the home game then the incumbent party wins obama and vice versa is if they lose then a new party takes over romney i showed this to the kids on monday and had them vote not on their personal views which let s be honest is their parents view understandably but on their thoughts whether this rule would ring true or finally be busted the kids from the looks of it were split 50 50 i had a couple of kids tell me today that they were looking forward to watching the election tonight to see which way it goes our social studies teacher also let me know that the kids were asking him questions about it and he had a couple conversations on correlation vs causation they are talking this means they are interested this means they are thinking and talking about school stuff they are talking they are interested they are having fun they are learning photo credit source ibankcoin com rcblog files 2012 11 redskins rule png posted by unknown at 6 04 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 30 2012 middle school news team one of the many things i love about my school wabash middle school is that we offer something for every student i have never seen such a small school with so many opportunities for diverse student interests we offer everything from tennis to spanish club our newest edition is the apax news team since our school is 1 to 1 we have incredible digital potential we have about 20 students who do a variety of jobs we meet everyday in our after school computer club some days we have several stories to cover on slow days we just hang out and think of fun things to include in the next broadcast i work with another teacher sponsor who was a journalism major at one point she writes or at least edits most of the script and i handle the video editing we are planning to hand this off to the students eventually but its middle school one the things i love about this is the diverse group of students who are involved we are attracting new members all the time and the apax news team is all the rage in wabash this is a perfect example of the fantastic opportunities afforded to 1 to 1 schools this would be very difficult without our infusion of technology you can follow our broadcasts at our website found here posted by unknown at 3 42 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1 1 21st century curriculum digital curriculum education learning project based learning school climate teachers technology web tools wednesday october 24 2012 pick your poison kids are kids halloween is coming and kids love it i have two projects we are doing in my class within the next two weeks one is an individual project and the other is a group project project 1 individual project this week we are learning perimeter area surface area and volume simple concepts but ones i have found kids mix up the first step in solving one of these problems is to know which one to choose how else would you know which formula to select i am going to create categories for each topic and let the kids dress up for halloween and try to win that category here are my categories largest perimeter smallest perimeter largest area smallest area largest volume smallest volume largest surface area smallest surface area overall most creative student has to enter one of the above categories to be eligible on halloween wednesday the 31st we will take pictures of each costume and calculate the category they choose i will put the winners on my website they love that stuff project 2 group project this project i stumbled upon at the end of last year and have been waiting to try it there are artists that create canstruction can sculptures of ever day things and drawings they are usually used in relation to a food drive just so happens our student council is having a food drive i offered to help collect from the other classes if we could have the food for a week later to let the kids create canstruction i think after we make them we will either connect the shapes to the above topics or have the kids ask their own question and solve it i have no delusions of grandeur i know my kids projects won t look like this but i do know they will turn out great so pick your poison and have some fun with your kids posted by unknown at 7 46 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest computer club the summer before my school went 1 to 1 we tried to prepare for any foreseeable problems our students parents or teachers might encounter one issue was internet access there are many in our community who suffer from unemployment or underemployment and roughly 70 of our students receive free or reduced lunch what are students supposed to do if they have homework and they need the internet to complete their work while they likely have local hotspots friends or relatives who have internet as a school we can t ask them to just figure it out without a reasonable option my experience has been that students are efficient excuse machines and if given any legitimacy they and their parents will overrun you thus the creation of computer club computer club is an after school supervised place for students to work on homework or just hangout and use the school s internet access this is also a place to get help with computers teachers often send student to me in computer club to learn how to use imovie iphoto or some web tool teachers themselves regularly drop in to get tech advice or troubleshoot a problem to be fair lots of kids come to computer club to play non educational games like minecraft and hang out with their friends however one could argue this is a great alternative to having them walking around town getting into trouble or returning to an empty house because their parents are at work last week i sat up and surveyed the kids in computer club there were several athletes using it as a pre practice study hall there were 2 kids discussing their new blog and how to promote it our apax news team was planning their next broadcast about 12 hardcore minecraft builders hunched over their computer and another 6 or 7 kids floating from group to group socializing and casually working on homework it was exciting to see kids engaged in what they were doing and having fun in school computer club has been an integral part of our 1 1 plan it has also become a time for clubs to assemble like apax news team and the new upstart swat team students working to assist technology great things are happening in little wabash indiana and like our announcements regularly say its a great day to be an apache posted by unknown at 3 53 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1 1 21st century culture digital curriculum education homework learning parents professionalism school climate teachers technology web tools monday october 15 2012 group project individual grades collaboration is a 21st century skill and despite the social nature of today s youth it doesn t come easy leaders need to learn how to delegate work and direct people in an effective way shy students need to learn to speak up socialites need to learn to stay focused on the task at hand group projects are a great opportunity to learn collaboration skills but they can also be disastrous especially when it comes to grading its inevitable someone doesn t pull their weight in the group the group gets a low grade and suddenly its not fair while the old adage is true life is not fair group grading should be last year i experimented with a grading style that helps to avoid this rather than grading the entire group at the end of a project i grade the students individually based on their contribution i formatively assess throughout the project and by the end of the project i usually have a pretty good idea of who has done their work in addition i like to design my projects so that each group member is responsible for an independent part of the whole final product in the end the group must find a way to put all of their work together into one presentation its important to make each independent part so that the other group members don t rely on the completion of another student s work for example in my recent project exploring the world project students had to research the most amazing physical features in the eastern hemisphere they each had to make several presentation slides create a map and create a written explanation of how each physical feature formed the group had to combine their work into one presentation map and written paper of course google makes this very easy when the group presented each group member presented their independent parts when they were finished we graded out individually life was finally fair posted by unknown at 3 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 21st century assessment curriculum education google grades learning pedagogy project based learning teachers monday october 8 2012 k 12 alignment districts have made attempts to align their curriculum from kindergarten to grade 12 for years common core standards and state content standards before them furthered this idea i reflected on this idea recently with a colleague and we had an epiphany it shouldn t be k 12 alignment it should be h 12 alignment the h stands for home the inclusion of parents has been the missing link in curricular alignment it has been pointed out recently by a great video produced by nbc that students who come to school behind their classmates fall further behind every year especially during the summer why have we never seriously addressed this there are no easy solutions but schools must make a revolutionary effort to bring parents into the schools not just in elementary but through student s senior year it seems parent involvement wanes as students work their way through school parent teacher conferences twice a year is a paltry attempt to involve parents in their student s education parents need to be in the school have knowledge of and participate in learning activities and also be held accountable to their student s education teachers are held to the highest order of accountability for a student they have for an hour each day isn t there some kind of incentive we could offer parents clearly the incentive of a better education is not enough what about free textbook rental what about a tax credit if we want to revolutionize american education and compete in a global world education must begin and be sustained at home posted by unknown at 3 00 am no comments email this 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