On August
7, Doctor Jenkins and anywhere from 20 to 60 students were able to discuss issues
from weeks four and five of the course. Perhaps the best news shared was that we didn’t
have to put anything on tk20!
Dr. Jenkins
discussed the merits of project based learning and other ideas similar to it. Some students shared their experiences with
it. Many worked in districts where this
was the expectation in the classroom. One of the big issues discussed was the problems
with grading. This led to a discussion
about the necessity of rubrics.
The PBL
discussion led to a discussion of technology in the classroom and the issues of
allowing students to bring their own devices into the classroom. These included students using technology off
task, posting information that shouldn’t be posted, and using technology to embarrass
others. It was agreed that kids must be
trained to use it correctly; they must be monitored and be documented as
signing the school’s policy.
The
students then discussed the web 2.0 tools that they had found as part of their
collaborative assignment using google docs.
Too many sites to list were mentioned.
Some of them were some that I had used before while many I had never
heard of before.
I enjoyed
hearing others articulate some of the same concerns I had about project based
learning and to hear that others had some of the solutions to those
concerns. I jotted down some of the web
2.0 tools so that I could more to my list.
It was a good conference.
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