My project has taken many twists and turns throughout the course of this year. Ideas, things I want to try or explore with video, always come to mind and how I can use video to enhance the classroom experience for students. I would’ve like to seen more progress with initial goal of having students create videos, but some of the obstacles have been a challenge to overcome. To sum up the project: I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
I teach in a STEM lab, and my students are working on different projects at different times. This in itself is a challenge, especially when the students are so used to being told what to do. The goal of the STEM lab is to get kids to explore and discover answers on their own. To jumpstart the process, my students need some background knowledge of how some of the tools we have function. In general, most of my students don’t want to read and follow a scripted Powerpoint that provides background knowledge on science or math behind the tool. For example, most students don’t want to read through the physics involved in building bridges, they rather get to exploration part of how a program like West Point Bridge Builder works. I can’t blame them, I would skip ahead too. So, I would like to travel down the flipped classroom model a bit more.
This semester, I would like to compile some videos that would provide some basics on how things work in the lab. If students are learning to program a Lego EV3, I want to have some video resources available that show them how to get up and running. My students are too needy, and I don’t have the time to go one by one and hold their hand as they struggle with how to solve problems on their own. So, my wildest hope for this project would be to see my students work on different projects, at different times, not asking me to tell them what to do, and discovering how useful video is as a resource for learning anything!
I teach in a STEM lab, and my students are working on different projects at different times. This in itself is a challenge, especially when the students are so used to being told what to do. The goal of the STEM lab is to get kids to explore and discover answers on their own. To jumpstart the process, my students need some background knowledge of how some of the tools we have function. In general, most of my students don’t want to read and follow a scripted Powerpoint that provides background knowledge on science or math behind the tool. For example, most students don’t want to read through the physics involved in building bridges, they rather get to exploration part of how a program like West Point Bridge Builder works. I can’t blame them, I would skip ahead too. So, I would like to travel down the flipped classroom model a bit more.
This semester, I would like to compile some videos that would provide some basics on how things work in the lab. If students are learning to program a Lego EV3, I want to have some video resources available that show them how to get up and running. My students are too needy, and I don’t have the time to go one by one and hold their hand as they struggle with how to solve problems on their own. So, my wildest hope for this project would be to see my students work on different projects, at different times, not asking me to tell them what to do, and discovering how useful video is as a resource for learning anything!
