My driving question is still in progress but reviewing the IRB has brought up many other questions that are helping me narrow my thinking. My initial thoughts for my DQ were based on student engagement and finding those interests and different factors that allow students to be motivated to learn. Since our last session and sharing about our passions, I have narrowed the list down to three questions that are related to engaging students, pulling from their interests, and also empowering them as learners and owning their learning through responsibility and high expectations.
I am trying to merge the following questions and come up with one that will encompass the idea of what my plan is when working with students. Driving Questions:
After doing some research on cross-cultural and language exchange activities in the classroom and their effect on motivation, I thought it would be exciting to look more into other approaches I could implement with my students. My Goal My goal is to give students the opportunity to create short informative videos that can be used as teaching resources by other English and Spanish teachers in other countries. I hope that this will be a tool that will motivate students to learn and engage in the classroom by being able to experience teaching others across the globe. I hope to see the effects on engagement by giving students this responsibility through a creating process that they will share on a scheduled basis. I won't go into too much detail about the implementation process right now but I already have the contacts, resources, and plan on how I would be sharing with students for creating the lessons. A rubric and structure of the videos would also be given and modeled to students. What do I need to know and how will I measure my need to knows I have many need to knows about implementing this with 32 students in the classroom. I would like to know the ideal number of students I should have in the study. Could I have a focus group of students to observe? What should I use to measure engagement in the classroom? Knowing my students' needs, do I measure outcomes based on previous engagement evaluations of students or initial observations in a specific area from beginning of the year? I have many questions and I want to continue looking into this topic; I appreciate any thoughts or questions you may have.
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María Dowling
9/4/2017 08:10:50 pm
I love your idea of having the students create videos for a real audience. I think this makes it meaningful for them. You are using their strengths and something engaging (technology). Will students be making videos in both languages or are you having some work on the English videos and others on the Spanish videos? I share many of the same questions you pose in your need to knows. I am also wondering how to measure my students' engagement.
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Diana Olguin
9/4/2017 09:35:46 pm
I really like the idea of having your students create their own videos as part of a teaching resource. I think your students are going to be ecstatic about this hands-on project. How will you track their progress?
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Marisabel Olguin
9/4/2017 09:53:13 pm
Wow, you have so much thought out already! Short informative videos sounds fun for the students. I suggest looking at an app called iMotion I used it during my teaching credential program to make short stop motion videos to inform and to teach. It was easy to use and didn't require materials that I didn't already have in my classroom. Fun for you as well!
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Jeff Albertazzi
9/6/2017 07:23:14 pm
Tapping into cultural backgrounds and getting to know your students has a huge impact on engagement. Now you have me thinking of my Driving question(s) and how I can bring that into play.
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Rian
9/17/2017 04:10:59 pm
I also like your idea of having students create short videos. I think it will be very exciting for other students to see what they have created. I am excited to see how your research progresses!
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