As a lifelong learner, I am continuing on a learning journey reflective of our student experiences. This journey includes taking risks, failing forward and synthesizing feedback to drive my growth. Vlogging – Video blogging – Is my most current risk and I am excited and nervous about it. I will attempt to document the student experience at MJDS in a weekly video with a short post to provide context and commentary. Previous videos are available just below the ‘search’ bar on the right side of my home page. I look forward to your comments and feedback.
Today’s Vlog – 5th/6th ETC
Learning at MJDS is framed by our guardrails: Documentation, Reflection, Questioning, Peer feedback and Self monitoring and assessment. Our 5th and 6th graders spent some time this week practicing how to give meaningful and empathetic feedback to their peers. Students focused their feedback on recent blog posts. Check out Gev. Clyde’s http://edublogs.mjds.org/cclyde/ and Gev. Kimmel’s blogs http://edublogs.mjds.org/lkimmel/category/ww-updates/ and scroll down and to the right to see each student’s blog. They welcome your comments!
Courtney and I were wondering why you were filming! Next step is creating rubrics for feedback and reflections on the blogs. Stay tuned!
So fun! It is so cool to see the kids Interacting and engaged in their learning.
How fun!
Feels like I am in school again 🙂
It is the best! More to come.
Definitely a work in progress! But I felt like the students really responded to the practice examples and were able to provide meaningful suggestions on how to improve. Super proud of the effort they were putting into the class discussion!
Thanks Aaron. I think this gives us some great insight into what the kids are doing on a daily basis. I know you want to be a fly on the wall – but I think it would be effective if you asked a couple questions… interact a bit with the kids, so we can really see what they are seeing, as they provide this feedback to each other. Great start!
Good idea Thunder! I will work on it.
Fantastic way to bring us into the classroom and learning. It might be good to string the vlog to a learning goal and value-in-action so our community comes to understand how – in any environment –
our guardrails and values are being employed. Making them more tangible for our community will help them advocate and tell the MJDS Story with greater passion & frequency. Thank you!