This year I’m using a project-based approach to teach my eighth grade English class. The students are in the process of planning a multimedia site consisting of a blog, an audio podcast and a video podcast. Here’s of rough outline of how they’re doing it:
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Real Projects for Real Students
September 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Education, Lessons, Media Literacy, Projects, Technology
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Angst vs. Optimism in Music Video – An Invitation to Philosophy
September 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Lessons, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Teaching, Teen Literacy, Video
Is the world a dark, depressing slide into chaos or a beautiful, bright ascent into joy? The following music videos provide an audiovisual starting point for students to discuss angst and optimism. After showing the videos, invite students to comment on these two approaches to life, and to grapple with their own life philosophy.
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Quotes about Reading for Students to Ponder and Paraphrase
September 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Lessons, Reading, Study Skills, Teaching
The Value of Paraphrasing Paraphrasing is one of the most important skills we can teach junior high and high school students. Often they want to rush into interpreting and reacting to a text even before they know what it means. We teachers sometimes suffer from the delusion that since a student can read the words [...]
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