Weekend Ed. Quote ~ March15
It’s imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning. ~ Tom Murray, co-author of Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today
Mar
15
It’s imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning. ~ Tom Murray, co-author of Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today
Nov
19
We returned from #CCEFinland to full-out fall leaves courtesy of a sudden freeze while we were away. Keeping to our presentation theme of #HarnessingImagination, we brainstormed some lesson ideas while we raked the leaves and gathered components for our Thanksgiving centerpiece.
Teachable Moments, like turkey giblets, are never wasted. For a STEM connection, I can use the photos along with information from ESF State University of New York to form the basis of a ThingLink scavenger hunt on the science behind why leaves turn different colors in fall. ThinkLink Inc. is a Finnish-American in-image app created in 2010 by Ulla Engeström and Janne Jalkanen. Depending on time limitations (and how compelling the Black Friday sales are), I can ask students to either complete the Scavenger Hunt that I create or they can add their own components.
Please leave a comment with your ideas.
The leaves transformed the lawn to a carpet of color. For a STEAM connection, I can use the photos of the multi-color lawn as a palette for student composed poetry/haiku. After reading and discussing the technique of haiku from the Australian Writers’ Centre, student teams can take turns writing alternating lines of the poem or haiku. Alternately, students can choose to work solo on their poem/haiku.
Please leave a comment with your ideas.
Tomorrow’s post will feature the STEM lesson Thinglink deliverable. Click here to view.
All of the outside color found a place on our Thanksgiving table with our Fall Centerpiece of Safflower blossoms, garden parsley, rosemary, and chives. A little glitter spray paint glammed up some of the outside English laurel leaves.
References:
#HarnessingImagination
Australian Writers’ Centre, (2018, April 19). 19 Haiku poems about Autumn. Retrieved from
https://www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/19-haiku-poems-about-autumn/
College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York (2018). Why Leaves
Change Color. Retrieved from: https://www.esf.edu/pubprog/brochure/leaves/leaves.htm
All photos by Teague
Nov
15
Today at 11:30am, our Creative Classroom Presentation Features a “How-Focused” approach to Digital Storytelling and its implementation in your classroom. The location is the Library at the Tampere University of Technology (TUT).
The main idea of our presentation:
This presentation has instructional and pedagogical application for K-12th grade. It is scalable for global audiences, which is good because our venue, #CCEFinland features participants from 21 countries.
PBS Learning Media has thousands of lesson plans that embed creativity and digital technology. Go to https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/ to explore the full library of lesson plans and resources.
Confined on the XR train traveling to Tampere? Stuck in the States without a travel budget? Follow our presentation via QR Code or shortened link:
https://tinyurl.com/Stories4Me
A question and answer session will follow. Questions from the onsite audience and via the #HarnassingImagination hashtag will round out our session.
Our Session Twitter Hashtag is #HarnessingImagination
Nov
14
Yesterday, I participated in a panel discussion at CCE Finland. #CCEFinland
The panel discussion addressed assessment. For my pre-panel post from yesterday, click here.
Here are my Top Ten Key Take-aways and my post-panel reflections:
1.) Every one of the 17 countries in attendance struggled with the concept of assessment.
(2.) When the topic of assessment is mentioned, most folks jump to the “summative” aspect when really there are at least 7 additional types of assessment.
(3.) In many countries, according to attendees, it is parents who are driving the standardized scoring. They want to know their child’s percentile number from the test and assign a heavy value on this numeral. IMHO: students feel this as pressure and not evidence of caring.
(4.) I advocate that there are five necessary forms of assessment, well really 6 forms of assessment that form a holistic representation of student learning.
(5.) Most testing /student assessment around the globe involves regurgitation of facts at lowest level of Blooms and with no inclusion of Krathwohl.
(6.) The push for Teacher assessment is gaining momentum (again) (but I question its overall value).
(7.) My recommendation is to teach the language of the test – this is not teaching to the test is it decoding and deciphering.
(8.) Most of what students are tested over is not rememberd by the students after the test.
(9.) Experiential learning and storytelling is a hook that helps memory
(10.) Educators are very interested in helping students achieve their very best learning snapshot through assessment.
Nov
11
November 12- 16, 2018 is the week of the 6th International Sympsoum on Creative Education organized by CCE Finland!
Nov
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Helen Teague, Citizen Reporter
#CCEFinland #Creative100 #HarnassingImagination
Nov
7
Here is my pre-symposium blog post, published on the CCE Finland website.
Click here to read the post: Link
CCE Finland is the Council for Creative Education. Read more CCE Finland posts on this blog, click here
Nov
6
The upcoming CCE 6th Symposium on Creative Education in Tampere Finland will feature educators and speakers from 15 countries… a true global gathering! #CCEFinland #Creative100
Join in the learning November 12-16, 2018