Teachers always wonder what impact they really do have on their students...
A group of students from my Digital Video Yearbook course at East Grand Rapids Middle School have taken the skills they learned in the course and produced a adventure/thriller movie. I found out about it here.
The coolest aspect of this is the fact that this course was entirely peer2peer based-- I served as the facilitator, provided some general guidelines, and made sure no one made a poor behavior decision (they are/were 8th graders after all). The learning occurs from exploration and peer2peer observation and informal inquiry.
Too often, in an effort to reflect our students' moden literacy practices, we mimick the genres or sharing and assessment dynamics our students use when they have authority over their own learning. In last year's VYB course, I tried to not simulate or mimmick these practices but actually relie on them.
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