Blog Post # 11

What can we learn from these teachers?

In Brian Crosby’s video Back To the Future, I learned many things about teaching. I learned that teachers should empower students to become learners. Kids want to learn and we should expect high quality work from them. Students can connect to the world through blogs. Mr. Crosby is trying different technologies in his classroom to make learning exciting. Lastly, teaching is about making students go beyond expectations.


Blended Learning Cycle is a video about blended learning and the learning cycle. In blended learning you take online, mobile, and classroom learning and put them together as a way of teaching. Secondly, is the learning cycle. The learning cycle consist of the five E’s: engage, explore, explain, expand, and evaluate. The blended learning cycle started by a driving question or something to get the students engaged to what you are about to investigate. The teacher creates a video for the students to watch independently on a particular assignment. Then, he reviews with each student before they take a quiz on what they learned. If any students fail he gives them the opportunity to go back and elaborate on the assignment. I think this approach is a good way to make sure the students are learning what they are investigating. I love the way that the students do this assignment independently. It makes the student pay close attention because they need to know the information in order to pass the quiz.

Making Thinking Visible is discussing small groups and how they are a great way to learn .The students had to make a headline for an upcoming project. At the end the students were asked how the headline was going to change after working in the project .It is important to let the students know that their opinions can change after working towards something and that is okay.


Super Digital Citizen is a great video. Mr. Pane fifth grade classroom were learning how to be good digital citizens This video was cool because students were able to design a superhero who would become their super digital citizen .In this video I learned it’s important to discuss online safety with my students. Students need to know the difference between negative and positive information online.


In Project Based Learning three teachers worked together to collaborate three different subjects. The teachers took an idea that they thought would benefit their students to their administration and they agreed to it. This is my first time seeing three different subjects being put together. One main thing I learned from this video is that sometimes you need to think outside of the box to make learning effectively and that the sky is the limit when trying to approach different ways for the students to learn.

In Roosevelt Elementary School, students were doing projects that involved other subjects as well. I learned that using PBL gives students more ownership over the project. Technology is great but having the students collaborate and learn together is greater.