Student Voices Episode 4: Justice, Lawrence, and Richard
6/15/2008 10:23:00 pm
Episode 1: Jessie 2440 downloadsEpisode 2: Tim_MATH_y 1766 downloads
Episode 3: Chris, Craig, Graeme 1367 downloads
Thanks to all our listeners. We might get one more published during this school year but this may be the last until September. In any case feel free to let me or my students know your thoughts about what they had to say; every comment is appreciated. As their teacher, I'm awfully proud of them. I can only imagine how their parents must feel.
In this episode of Student Voices three Pre-Calculus students talk about how they put together their Developing Expert Voices project and what they learned in the process: how they they best learn math, how it can best be taught, and many other incidental things like team work and organizational skills.
All three of these students are in Grade 11 (about 16 years old). They are taking their grade 12 math course this year so that they can take AP Calculus next year.
They have titled their project with one of my favourite reminders to all my students: Mathematics is the Science of Patterns. If you watch any of the video content they created you'll hear several "in jokes". I'll let you "in" on a few of them:
• I eat a lot of yogourt. Between 1/2 and 3/4 of a litre most days.• I HATE when students come late to class.
• I tell lots of stories in class; always with a mathematical slant or moral.
• To encourage students to move quickly I often say: "Hupsha, hupsha, quick like a bunny!"
• When students ask permission to miss my class to attend other school related events I almost always ask: "What?!? You want to miss my honey dripping words of wisdom?"
• You can see some more of my "famous expressions" here.
Let Justice, Lawrence, and Richard know what you thought about the podcast by leaving a comment here on this post or on the mirror of this post on their class blog.
Without any further ado, here is the podcast. A copy of the poster they made for their work is below.
(Download File 12.2Mb, 25 min. 30 sec.)
2 comments
I've really enjoyed listening to the student reflections. It's a great insight into quality teaching and learning. The process is as important as the product. Thanks to you and your students for sharing their learning and offering us a glimpse of what we want it to look like in all our classrooms.
ReplyDeleteI find myself connecting what my students have been publishing with things I heard Rick Van Eck say at the Microsoft Innovative Educators Conference. The kids were really engaged in there learning by doing this, i think in part, by the multifaceted complexity of the task. Rick describes "engagement" explicitly NOT as entertainment but as very effortful process. I was really struck by the students' clear engagement in a very effortful process.
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