Reading Reflection #6 Cameron McCririe


Discuss how technology tools can encourage students to be reflective and evaluate their own strengths.

Some tools that can be used are blogs and online surveys. Through blogs students can talk about their ideas and have other students comment on them to encourage communication in the classroom. Surveys can be used for group members to individually gather information and then later pool their surveys together to get data.



Describe several ways in which you can get students' minds ready for a project.

Some ways to get students' minds ready for a project would be to have them write KWL charts, watch a movie that is related to the topic, and asking them to ask friends and family about the topic and see what kind of information they can gather using those resources.



Discuss the elements of teaching fundamentals first

The elements of teaching fundamentals are to set up the stage for inquiry and sharing the assessment rubric. Getting students to ask questions instead of just solving a problem is the first step in achieving the stage for inquiry and will engage more students through this method. Having students understand what they are being graded on is also important for the teacher and the students to have an agreement on what is being assessed.



Describe the important steps in preparing students for using technology in project.

The important steps in preparing students for using technology are to set up a technology playground, introduce project management tools, demonstrate how to use the technology, and to always collaborate with the technology specialist so the students and you are not wasting time.




Discuss ways to promote inquiry and deep learning

Some ways to promote inquiry and deep learning are to have students brainstorm about the topic and if it connects with any other subject area such as social studies, science, math, etc, and guided inquiry where you ask students, "which one", "how", "should", and "why". These types of questions allow students to dive further into questioning and eventually finding their own answers.



Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.

These concepts in this chapter relate to out topic of Staying Healthy because in our workshop we have many different booths containing different information that some students may already have information about and some that do not. From this we can begin to give them more information and have them leave to share and explore more about the booth topic.