Blog #4 Active Learning and 21st Century Students
Photo Courtesy of S. Feeman Padlet Presentation This week's blog gave me the opportunity to discover a different way to engage the students in my classroom. We learned all about active learning and what it looks like in a real 21st century environment. Active learning is student led, teacher facilitated, builds on communication/collaboration/critical thinking skills, and allows students to create things they learn. My professor shared with us different activities that she has done with students in different classrooms. I read about an activity she did using QR codes. She had students in her class use QR codes to decode different famous quotes for an African American history project. Students traveled around the classroom reading beautiful and famous quotes and then used the QR code to figure out the missing word. Then she flipped the script on the kids and had them create their own QR code mystery quote. Students worked collaboratively to find a quote and then shared them with ...