What Do You Want to Create Today?
Wes Fryer, a blogger I have been following for many years, has created a wonderful resource page called “Mapping Media to the Curriculum” page.
He starts with the simple question:
What do you want to create today?
Take a look… there are MANY examples from the classroom. See what inspires you? See how you can upgrade a traditionally taught lesson or project?
It is not just about the fun and tech “wow” such upgrades can bring, but about the valuable and necessary skills we are exposing our students to (at their developmentally appropriate stage). Skills they will need for THEIR future. Remember what Heidi Hayes Jacobs always says:
“What year are YOU preparing your students for?”
These skills, these kind of media ARE their world. Traditional skills and literacies (reading, writing, etc) are embedded as you are upgrading.
[...] how to incorporate it into lessons. Another particular article I found interesting was called What Do You Want to Create Today? It discusses the importance of allowing children to develop the skills they need to better their [...]
Thanks for the shout-out for my Mapping Media to the Curriculum site. I’m working on this as my next eBook, and should have all 12 of the media options “drafted out” in the next couple weeks. I still lack four more… The pages are there, I just need to add the content in them. If you have any suggestions on improving this project please let me know. I’m planning to create a framework for teachers to earn badges for creating personal media projects as well as facilitating student media projects for each media type, using Mozilla’s open badges project.
Wesley Fryer recently posted..CDR Electronics in Oklahoma City: A GREAT Place to Buy Used iOS Devices & Macs
[...] community is all about communicating and sharing ideas! His article that she shared was about “What Do You Want to Create Today?” was a great resource for beginners in my opinion! It had everything from narrated art to [...]
[...] post, “What Do You Want to Create Today?” sparked my interest under the “21st Century Learning” category. Focusing on how teachers can [...]
[...] What Do You Want to Create? – my classroom theme is “Create, Collaborate, Critically Think and Communicate” and I [...]
“@mrneedleman: What do [your students] want to create today? http://t.co/A0uHsrWp”