At the beginning of this course, one of the more profound moments for me resulted from viewing a videotaped interview with advanced thinker and scholar, John Seely Brown. He so eloquently addressed the challenges we face with the rapidly changing role for educators from instructor to facilitator -“being expert in a particular area of knowledge, to becoming expert in the ability to create and shape new learning environments.”
For fellow educators seeking new technology skills for "shaping a new learning environment," may I share a wonderful example done with the tech application and media aggregate,VOICETHREAD. Click on the link BELOW and see what the application,Voicethread, can do for a teacher who seeks to expand opportunites for students to think and create in multiple dimensional ways. I love this project because each group of students created a new layer of interpretation, applying different modalities (poetry, music and visual art) to represent their thoughts about a simple theme of “places I like to visit or imagine visiting.”
http://ed.voicethread.com/community/library/K12_art_poetry_and_music_from_Erin_Berg/
The project: Second graders first completed a piece of artwork, depicting a place they love to visit or imagine visiting. Then, 9th graders used a Wiki to few and then select various pieces of artwork. They created poetry and recited their work on the VT. Then, the link was sent to a classroom in Texas, where students worked to compose an original piece of music for each picture using GarageBand. Overall, it took about 2 1/2 months to put together. Don’t forget to click on the “St. Marks” thumbnail to hear wonderful, original digital music by 5th & 6th grade student in Texas. I love this project!!
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