Proposal PresentationCianne Conklin

If you had read all the proposals prior to last evening,

mine has recently changed.Prior to last evening my proposal was about using what students are interested in (specifically Music) to help them learn about the history of artists, and relating it to their life currently. Students would create a podcast of a song about the artist as well as a piece of art. These pieces would be parodies of a chosen original piece.

Examples of Mona Lisa Parodies

Original by Leonardo daVinci

Examples of The Scream Parodies

Original by Edvard Munch

I felt that this project seemed like an average idea although

it just didn’t have enough connection to the course we are all taking nor did it have

enough connection to the students which is why we are

all here. Right?

I decided to take advantage of a situation

that played out at my school just last Friday. Students were getting upset at the morning

announcements because they were boring.

Students are attached to their electronic devices

And you know when students are excited to watch the announcements when the teacher comes onto the intercom and says “The announcements have been uploaded and are ready for viewing” when they pull down the projector screen and turn off the lights. Kind-of like when you were in school and the teacher rolled in a television, and your eyes lit up, because you knew it was movie day. Yet, once the announcements are finished, the students are disappointed that they wasted a few minutes of their day. They complain for the next few minutes and then they forget about them until the next day, hoping for something better.

The Central Bobcats Media students are not stepping up to the challenge of entertaining others or teaching them anything. This is why I am pursuing this project.

Instead of creating a learning environment where my students learn, maybe I can do it in all classrooms by getting them hooked to

the daily announcements by using creativity, critical thinking skills, and cross curricular connections.

Here is an example of the current announcements at Central High

School, click the video to begin.

As you just saw, the announcements are very dull. My goal is create at least a once a week episode

that students can watch in their home room class, to relearn certain strategies and curriculum they may have already received to get them to start

“Transferring” from class to class.

Using students to help teach certain strategies

will also help themselves as well as

others as they will thrive to do their best.

Focusing on all curriculum from 9th to

12th grade.

Announcements would be…

Played every Wednesday during their Advisory period (Home Room). The Advisory Period is a period students can work on homework, get help from tutors, talk to their teachers, etc. Although it is not working as well as planned. Because students use it as a free period. Time to play games on their phones, check their Facebook, talk with friends, etc.Include a variety or interactive games, discussion questions, cross curricular information, loaded with visually appealing images, characters brought to life, and contests etc.

ImpactThis project will advance my professional agenda by teaching all students, not only my own about my content area as well as every other content area that we offer at Central High SchoolI am hoping it will stretch the minds of our youth and help them see the relation between one subject to another. Or from outside of the school to inside of the school

Impact continuedBeyond this course I would like to continue these announcements motivating students to learn everything they can in every situation they are in. I believe the audience that would be the most interested in my project would be school administrators. Currently the principal had told the teacher in charge of the announcements, that he wants video announcements, but like we said in class, teachers must not use technology just to use it, they must use it to motivate and teach students. Students must get something out of it if they are going to utilize the medium in their classroom.

Course ConnectionI believe that this project connects very well to the materials we have covered in this course thus far. “Instead of seeing the learner as an enduring, unchanging mind that carries cognitive tools from one material setting to another, Lave (1988) proposed that we should think instead of learners as motivated, concerned, “jpf” (“just-plain-folk”) always in social relations and practical activities, in a social world designed to regularly produce familiar circumstances.” -PackerPacker states students go back to what they are familiar with, what they know. In order to make this project successful, I would like to create problems for students to solve, using what they already know as a starting point.

Course connection continued

I also believe that the Completing Perspectives on Future Learning has a huge influence on this project. I would like to incorporate all perspectives in this project for all types of learners. Didactic, Constructivist, and Cultural Views. I am most looking forward to week 10 when we discuss Motivation, Emotions, and Embodiment. I think those are great key points in whether or not students succeed in the first place.

Plan of ActionIn the next two weeks, I hope to have some students on board that would like to help teach other students something they know or need to know well for a given course. I would like to focus on the Spring AIMS Math test which falls on April 9th. I would also like to have one episode in the works or completed within the next two weeks. I have many ideas to get it started, now I just must start!

Transferring knowledge from one situation to another using

technology equals SUCCESS!

How can you help?What types of activities or strategies do you think would help high school students?Using this strategy once a week is a slight concern of mine, do you think it will still work if it is not constantly reinforced?