Online Collaboration Teaching Experience

20/20 Collaboration Experience

As a technology teacher I will propose to the 6^th, 7^th and 8^th grade science teachers to be part of the 20/20 Collaboration Experience. Having in mind the goal of an on going worldwide educational online. I will invite teachers to work on an interdisciplinary project where I will support with the technology side of it. I will set up a couple of meetings to show them the, 20/20 challenge on global problems. I would explain to them the working online pair up and working procedures. Sharing Our Planet would be a line of inquiry I am sure they will want to focus because it highlights problems related to global warming, biodiversity and ecosystem losses, fisheries depletion, deforestation, water deficits and maritime safety and pollution. I will advocate for them to select one or two of these so we can be paired up with another class that may follow similar curricula. If any level decides to be part of this experience, we will design our units following the MYP Design Cycle and MYP Science requirements and standards. I am planning to create a video to record our experience as teachers, students and class working scenario, to share it to 20/20 to enhance others to join. My objective is to promote and invite peers from my school community and from around the world to share their teaching expertise and live the collaboration experience.

The Dream Rocket Project

Pictured hosted by flickr from Monte Sano Elementary School from Huntsville Alabama

Assignment 8

Advertisement

iGift 

As a group we decided to create a product that would praise teachers for there hard commitment. We selected some chocolates and cupcakes one of the team members had in her class to use them as props. Our company name is iGift and the ad’s message is linked directly to our slogan “A sweet thought for you.” Our target is any who would like to praise a teacher. The photos I selected to do this advertisement project are: a box of chocolate that is placed on a wooden box as a gift and from the Internet the typical desk of a teacher, with books, the classical red apple and a pencil cup. This ad will create an impact, when the viewer see’s the typical desk of a school classroom and will remember a special teacher and of course will want to thank him/her by purchasing a special thanks with iGift.

Assignment 7

Rewards for the 21st Century Education

 Rewards for the 21st Century Education

A Reality Experienced in Today's Education

The Puzzle of Motivation video of Dan Pink is clear example of were we must gear in our units towards PBL. It clearly demonstrates two learning paths that are experienced in today’s educational scenarios around the world. One where rewards and incentives can mislead the true meaning of acquiring knowledge. In which students will have a lack of reasoning and reflection but a fast ending of the task to win or earn something in return. This will reveal a low achievement on knowledge, creativity and unclear purpose or real application to solve tasks or a poor performance on final products. Fostering a generation of learners that do not have the necessary skills for this leadership global market world.

The second scenario, is today’s 21^st Century education, in which teachers have a harder task in engaging students to meaningful and truthful tasks linked to community or world problems to promote inquiry and problem solving, to expand their thinking skills but most important of all creativity. We need to reflect on our educating role that promotes the way education is viewed and be entirely committed to use PBL to cope up with our student’s natural way of learning. We need to think of rewards in a total different way in which there are not based on physical things like a candy, toys, etc. or as a way of just fulfilling a grade with no true meaning. As educators we need to remodel the way we incentive our students by sharing their creativity and skills acquired in their community.

There are no limitations to this global education, what science knows and what education does is the paradigm that we encounter every day. As educators, we need to pace up and keep this inspiration and creativity to make our students be ready for global perspectives, leadership roles and jobs. Having and open view and incorporating expertise or sharing rewards will make our students knowledge to grow in meaningful ways, to be ready to the changes to come and to be competitive in this global community. This will the best reward or incentive we can give them.

Keep your teaching incentives high!! View Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons WorthSharing to inspire your teaching creativity!

    

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