Co-authored Blog Posting
Morgann Clark and Shaniece Mosley
On October 4th we used the class time to discuss different multimedia tools used in the classroom. We reviewed several teachers unique teaching methods and strategies to achieve high level understanding. To prepare for this class discussion we viewed videos and other online materials.
In class we participated in a teaching strategy that encourages higher order thinking. We were asked to read an article about the availability of birth control to populations of women who were unable to afford birth control. Groups were asked to read the article wtih an inherent bias. Choosing an interesting or even controversial topic will grab the students attention and the activity requires them to explore opinions other than their own.
Shaniece and I were both particularly interested in a recorded lesson from the teaching channel. In this lesson the chemistry instructor was teaching Boyle's law. In this activity he employed both visual and kinesthetic learning strategies. Chemistry is difficult to teach because it requires students to visualized movement at an atomic level. This teacher did a great job of demonstrating Boyle's law with balls on sticks and had the students act out the movement of the molecules. This enlarged model gave the students a clear picture of something that happens on a very large scale.
One tool that we would like to use in our classrooms in the future is podcasts. In an online discussion board we brainstromed different ways to use this tool. Morgann would like to use pod casts to help her students understand current events. Shaniece would like to use podcasts to give meaningful feedback to students. It is quick and easy to provide more feed back with a podcast than it is to write on student work. We could further this feedback strategy by having students offer peer evaluation of other students work.
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