My name is Stephanie Dobui. I teach Grade 5 at John Maclure Community School.
My project is centered around the following social studies outcomes: assessing why immigrants came to Canada, and the contributions significant individuals made to the development of Canada's identity.
Groups of students will research characters, create scripts, and develop their own "heritage moment." They will be digitally recording their performances, and using the iLife suite, they will be editing and posting(?not sure yet) their assignments on the classroom webpage.
My research question centers around whether students can successfully implement media in an educational and purposeful way.
I am only on a temporary contract in this class until December, so will be fast-tracking this project, and hope to have a second test case with a new class after December, with data that can be somehow compared and analysed between the two classes.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
social studies heritage moments
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This is a great question - successfully is an interesting term since one could define success in many ways :-)
I do believe that the work will be very engaging and that the students will create valuable learning for themselves of both the curriculum and of some important problem solving and life skills.
It is interesting that you may have the chance to try this with two sample groups. I think these observations will be very interesting - both how the groups work and how you do things differently. Very cool!
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