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During
this collaboration many educators shared great ideas that they use in their
classrooms. They mentioned reaching out to experts of a specific field that
relates to the topic your students are learning about. For example, if you
are teaching about animals then Skype with a zookeeper. Why should we limit learning within our four
walls? I realize that is how it will be almost every day but instead change
it up and allow students to connect their learning with the real world. Every
now and then give students the experience of collaborating not only with each
other but with other classrooms around the school and the world.
The idea
that I definitely want to try in my classroom was a critical thinking strategy.
The students would create a slide at the same time about a specific topic.
They would put it in a news headline format after reading about the topic and
pick out important information about that topic and add pictures. After they
are finished they would send it to me and I could put all of the slides together. As a class we can scroll through the
headlines together. Students can work with partners or individually.
Another strategy I would like to try in class is to come up with pictures of
a specific topic and the kids have to guess what event the picture is
portraying. I think this strategy would be a great formative assessment to
use in class. I am really glad that I attended Ed Camp; I learned so many
great ideas from other educators that I can start using in my classroom.
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