Learning Forward - Day Two August 9, 2007

After taking a “Gallerywalk” viewing student work whether with students, teachers, parents or community members, find ways for them to reflect on what they saw and what they learned.

For our blogging purposes, think of this lab experience as reflective practice using student work to learn forward. Act AS IF you were a group of teachers who have gathered to review these lab samples of student work in your school.

Please comment on both aspects AND leave specific examples when possible:

1. What did you see in other products or learn from comments in the gallery walk worth considering?
2. What advice you would give yourselves to help coach even better student work NEXT time?

Greening Up Student Tasks - Ongoing Ideas for Transforming Learning for Kids

Now that your brains, creativity and collaborative thinking has warmed up, share your BEFORE (a G00d task assignment) and AFTER (a now GREENER and Greater task assignment) ideas increasing the quality of student work both in content as well as craftsmanship.

Play the good to great game by describing the task prior to the workshop experiences and the ideas you have now generated for GREENING it UP! Wherever your ideas start - no problem just join the challenge of greening IT up even more by using the template providing a compare and contrast approach to sharing. Feel free to consider this creative space an ongoing BEFORE/AFTER task even after our time together. This will enable us to continue learning from each other.

Begin with your team names.Now describe the BEFORE and AFTER using the following template - that way we can celebrate what IT looked like before and how it morphed into an even greener (ta da!) GREAT!

BEFORE-Good !
Student Task-
Type of Communication -
Rank Bloom’s Taxonomy-
Mode of Communication-
Category of Tech/Learning Use (L-A-T)-


AFTER – GREAT
Student Task Idea-
Type of Communication-
Rank Bloom’s Taxonomy-
Mode of Communication-
Category of Tech/Learning Use-