Blog Post #11

After watching Back to the Future, I really enjoyed the information that was given. The hot air balloon project was a great way to approach the students with technology and learning the different areas they've come from. While working on the project, the students wrote a story about when they were a balloon. Technology is an active learning for students. Brian Cosby explained the possibilities which are: Collect, Collaborate, Motivate, Empower, Active, and Include. These possibilities can help their learning change each others lives. My favorite quote he said was, "A focus back on the future or consider other possibilities."

In this video, it went into great detail about about the Blended Learning Cycle. It's the power of the question and learning in the classroom. This cycle uses online, mobile, and classroom. There's also the 5 E's in the learning cycle which are: Engage, Expand, Evaluate, Explain, and Explore. Paul Anderson talks about QUIVERS.

Questions (Presented with data and explain it)
Investigation/Inquiry (Timing on projects)
Video (On any content using direct instructions)
Elaboration (A lot of reading and more understanding)
Review (Meeting with the students before moving on to the next part of the project)
Summary Quiz (Quiz on covered material)


In Making Thinking Visible, Ron Ritchhart talks about the importance of thinking. Using creative ways have a great deal with flexibility. He thinks students should have an opportunity to know more about the world's influences and looking from different perspectives. Richard also thinks that its about the culture on how the lesson gets taught to have a good supportive atmosphere.

In Super Digital Citizen, Sam Pane is teaching his 4th grade class on how to be a good digital citizen. The class is evaluating the websites they might be able to use in school. Digital citizens are held responsibly and react safely to things. The class project was to make a digital citizen super hero; this project gives the students more ownership. Sam also discusses about ELA Takeaways.

ELA Takeaways
1. Write narratives to develop imagined experiences or events.
2. Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contributes to text.
3. Ask and answer questions.


This video was about Project Based Learning. In the video, three teachers combine History, English, Information and Processing into PBL. PBL engages learners and have a deeper understanding. The use of technology today has been enhanced to be shared in different ways. Technology is also used as a tool that can come to life.

Roosevelt Elementary's PBL Program shows how they use Project Based Learning in the school. These projects can help students gain more knowledge. It also helps them retain more information that's given than the teacher explaining it to them.

Project Based Learning is...
-In Dept Learning
-Integrated thematic instruction
-Based on a real world problem
-Research-based
-Project & Presentation