I'm making the most of TWO professional development opportunities now!Here I am at the virtual opening session of 3D Game Lab Teacher Camp listening to Shallow, one of the founders, talk about how quest-based learning will re-invent education.
A few of us learned how to fly on that day. I completed a lot of quests and tried to learn how to play Minecraft.
And I'm continuing on with week 5 of #DigiFoot12! This MOOC is on Week 5 and celebrates student voices on the Web. Our homework was to find a student blog, comment on it and tweet about it. I found UK student Veg's "Never Seconds" blog on Blogspot.com
She started her blog in order to give photos and reviews of her school's "dinners." Intriguingly, her school attempted to shut down her blog, which has lead to greater notoriety. Since then, other students have been e-mailing her pictures and information about their own lunches. Her latest post was in August and featured a very attractive Bento Box.
Imitaz Mujeed's talk earlier this week about his own path towards entrepreneurship has stuck with me and I've been musing on it ever since. He found what he was passionate about and had the abilities to make his goals a reality. I wish to help support all of my students towards their goal but I sometimes wonder if self starters like Imitaz just need school to move out of their way. I think that its great when a teacher can figure out how to best support very capable students so that they get the help that they need and the time to pursue their own path.
I was thrilled to be mentioned in Verena's daily #Digifoot12 newsletter! Thanks Verena!!!
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