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“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”― John Dewey Reflection is a key part of processing and allowing ourselves the pause to think about what just happened. This Think, Make, Innovate focuses on the often overlooked piece of reflection. Personal ReflectionStart by offering a focused reflection question to students to have them narrow their thoughts around skills and experiences that they had. So instead of, "What did you like about what you created?" Try out "What problems did you encounter and how did you solve them?" Also, consider the mode that students will use to process and the audience that students will share this reflection with. It could be a personal reflection in a notebook, just for themselves or it could be a video reflection that is shared with the rest of the class of a Flipgrid. It could be reflection circle with just a few students or it could be a 1:1 conference with the teacher. Are there some digital tools that you currently use that could help students to share their reflections outside of the classroom? The opportunities are endless, just consider how you scaffold students for this different types of sharing opportunities to help prepare them for success. Journey MapsA journey map is a technique used in Design Thinking to visualize the process that a person goes through to accomplish a goal. If we twist this to our maker experience, you can have students record highs and lows of their process of creating.
To use with students, like suggested earlier, have students focus on three memorable moments in their making process and have them reflect what they learned from those moments. Was it a moment that they didn't think their project would ever come together? Was a it moment that they collaborated with someone else that helped them to realize a break through? Curious to learn more about Journey Maps? Click Here We'd love to see how you reflect! We'd love to see the questions and prompts or you share with your students or the experiences that you create to help them reflect! Please share them with us @DLGWAEA on social media or email us at makerspace@gwaea.org And as always... #HaveFunMaking ~Amber & Mindy Red Light, Yellow Light is a powerful thinking routine when students encounter ‘puzzles of truth.’ Students are provided with tools to navigate through editorials, biased news sources, and other informational outlets. By identifying key components of a story, whether found in the news or on the playground, students engage in conversations about where the truth could be misconstrued.
As always, when introducing a new thinking routine it is important to model for your students. As you are modeling marking up a text for students, make sure to verbalize your thinking in why you are marking zones red, yellow, or green (i.e. “Here the author is making a sweeping generalization of all teenagers, I am going to mark this as yellow.”) This strategy translates well into a digital learning environment and could begin as an asynchronous activity. Students can use an online annotation tool, such as Edji, Diigo, or Actively Learn, to mark up their texts. For younger students, consider grabbing a snippet of text and bringing it into Seesaw as an image. The initial annotation of text could occur asynchronously, with students returning to synchronous learning to discuss. Chalk Talk provides the opportunity for students to engage in silent conversations. Silent conversations allow students to take the time to consider new thoughts and ideas without being interrupted by a verbal classroom discussion. Instead, students share their comments by recording them, analog or digital. As students consider the comments and ideas of their classmates, they have the time to form deeper thoughts and share new ideas as the conversation grows. In conclusion, students share what was written aloud to the whole class and debrief about the experience. |
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