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TI2006 Day1:bridges

by admin last modified 2008-08-20 10:14

This week we will be looking at video from last month's "Tomorrow's Innovators" session that we ran during this year's Summer Institute. This was the first time we had a classroom of students at the SI and we are grateful to North Agincourt Junior Public School and Rose Avenue Public School, their respective prinicipals Alyson McClelland and Jim Kormos for sending students to participate in this event. We also want to thank Krista Dunlop for volunteering to teach this class.

BUILD-ON HERE
Our goal in presenting this and other case studies is not to critique the specific teacher but 
instead to use the case as a means of discussing the basic and advanced features of a Knowledge
Building classroom and to engage everyone in a process of continuous improvement so that we will
always be striving to go beyond our best practices.

What follows is the basic outline of the Tomorrow' Innovators setup that we ran last month:

- Krista Dunlop from North Agincourt was the classroom teacher
- 19 students going into grades 3 & 4 came by bus from North Agincourt and Rose
- the teacher chose the topic of bridges
- students were given "homework" to do over the preceeding month
- students were to find a bridge and take or draw a picture of it
- they were also to record the bridge's purpose and it's location
- the main teaching session was from 9:30 to 12:00 each day (for 4 days) and was held in room 9-105
on the 9th floor
- Zoe Donoahue (ICS), Richard Messina (ICS), Chew Lee (IKIT) and Richard Reeve helping Krista with
the programming of what happened in the classroom by using the analysis tools that were be run on the database
- in the afternoon all the children went to the computer labs on the 3rd floor to learn about other
computer technology that could support their learning of bridges and to write notes in their Knowledge
Forum database
- at the end of each teaching session Krista will record a video diary of what took place that morning
and what she thought should happen next.
- at the end each day we had a 30 minute panel session with the main TI planners during which time we
watched Krista's video and then the analysis people were able layer in their opinions about what
should happen next
- the revised plan for the next day was discussed on-line in the Knowledge Forum database

 

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