Sunday, August 21, 2011

What's Your Sentence?

I spent the better part of my summer preparing for engaging PBL projects for the junior Interactive Media/English class I was going to be co-teaching at OD.  A week before the start of school I accepted a new position at PHS and I have been looking at the preparations I made and figuring out how I can work pieces of those PBL projects into my new courses.

This Daniel Pink video is so simple,  yet thought provoking. As an entry document in a PBL environment, I am hoping it will inspire students to be reflective not just today, but every day.  As an educator who is passionate about reaching every student, it reinforces my daily belief that we can always be a better teacher through self-reflection.   Tomorrow I will ask my CA2-Desktop Publishing students to think about their sentence and create a logo.  I am hoping they will be curious and introspective.  I hope authenticating the logo design process through personal meaning for each student will make learning those Indiana standards more relevant. But for now I need to think about what my sentence is.  I am sure the students will be asking me.


Two questions that can change your life from Daniel Pink on Vimeo
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