Check out Yas's reflection part 1 here
It was pretty neat seeing people talking, working together and having fun. This beats the sit-all-day-and-listen pro d other districts suffer through! Thanks Lori. Tim
Lori,
My reflection was a bit about where I was at entering the process late. I knew I would be late today. I was looking forward to participating. When I arrived I was not "in the mood" to join a group, and do not think I would have been had I started on time. So I went through the various reasons why. (not important here, but relevant to my teaching) Then I stepped into the mind of a student who might not be in the mood to participate and asked myself what would I do in my classroom when a student does not want to join in. Later I participated. Then reflected that sometimes we just need time to become part of the action. Sometimes the action becomes more interesting as we watch. Sometimes a student may not participate at all, but may learn by watching from a distance. Although this may not be the outcomes you were looking for, for a teacher (me) who has lots of hands on activities, I think the reflection was valuable. Some days I push my students to participate, some days I just let them join in when they are ready. As for the technology: fun, interesting, but in my classroom I am taking a step back from technology, simply to relieve the stress on the teacher (that would be me) when it does not work. Thanks for the fun. Sincerely, Heather Robertson I was really confused at first, but once we got going, it started to make sense and was quite fun! That hour went very quickly. I am not sure how I would use it in class, my students are hands on, moving and creating everyday and at this point, I cannot visualize a tasks in which we could use Makey Makey and be as productive as we usually are.
First, Thank you for inspiring our staff with your expertise and innovative practices! Today, allowed us to work as a team in a fun and non-threatening environment. It reinforced our belief in the importance of "play" in our teaching practice, and in particular, problem solving. It was fun to "cheat" and see what our colleagues were up to. In the end, it was our cheating methods that brought us success. While it was a positive experience, the time necessary to work out the quirks would make this a difficult activity to integrate into our courses. Never the less, it opened our minds to how programming can be applied in our subjects. The strength of this activity is in its team building. Our diverse team found.... 1. a complete circuit after a few trials...good at teasing out who is committed to completing a task, mt. 2.Mush had to help download some stuff and he determined that our speakers didn't work. We we stuck without the help! Everything is supposed to be easy, but it wasn't easy to get things going the first time. Mike 3. A mixed level of a discomfort among group members; interesting to see how each person responded to the task (involved, on the periphery as support, watcher); JY 4.A lot of fun! Great cooperative activity - thanks a ton!
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