Reflection chapter 9

The chapter expanding the circle mentions the idea of branching out you help your students learn. The teacher Whipple used his blog to interact with other educators. The idea of connecting with teachers from across the world is amazing. The South Korea class working together with Whipple’s class creates diversity for both classrooms. Technology should be used like this the potential possibilities are endless. The teachers were able to connect with over 40 different schools who could be judges of the student’s literature entries. This development of collaborative projects will help develop student’s research skills. Project based projects can incorporate many subject areas. I really like the idea of these projects being designed to solve a real world issue. East stands for the environmental and spatial technologies. They have been showing the benefits of using technology to solve problems. These projects will reinforce the idea of student-driven learning. As student master these projects the teacher can start to let the students take charge of their own projects. Helping your students connect with people who have the same goals as them will set a collaboration. This chapter was really about using project-based learning to connect with people around the world working on the same issue. The topic health is universal, and using these ideas my students could possibly connect with fitness coaches, nutritionist, and people who are researching the same issue.