#studentdriven

[tigrikorn]

Two cartooning class collaboration demos from Art school this past week!

Students prompted characters featured and dialogue.

[chefilona]

My @culinaryinstituteofcanada group E students finished their rotation with me today. I’m excited to see what they take with them in their next/last rotation of the school year! Good luck to you all! #pei #canada #cheflife #community #charlottetown #culinaryinstituteofcanada #plantbased #nutrition #breakfast #culinaryschool #cheflife #studentdriven #traythatbacon #canadianchef #culinaryarts #instructorlife #sendoff #truecooks #futurechefs #culinaryfederation #jrchefs

[tischperformancestudiesblog-blog]

Don't miss out! Submit your proposal for the Fall 2018 Salon Series! The Salon Series is a student-driven initiative for current students to collaborate on showcasing their work to the Performance Studies community. The deadline to submit your proposal is this Friday, November 9th. To learn more and to submit your proposal go to https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/events/salon-series-fall-2018

[ksmithschool]

Who needs a classroom? Shady tree and some tools - glue, scissors, computer, and a partner- are all we needs. #flexible #studentchoice #studentdriven #trust

[nearpod]

Student-Driven Instruction in Harvard's Laboratory Setting

Guest Blogger Pamela Levine sat down with Education Science Programs and Curriculum Specialist at Harvard Medical School, Robert Simpson to learn more about Harvard Medical School’s Advanced Placement (AP) Biology Hinton Scholars Program. 

Harvard Medical School’s Advanced Placement (AP) Biology Hinton Scholars Program is an after-school enrichment program serving 85 high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors from Boston Public Schools. The program combines tutoring, mentorship, and biology laboratory experiences to increase students’ understanding of AP Biology concepts and expose them to careers in the sciences. For the past two years, the Hinton Scholars Program has been using student responses and work in Nearpod to inform instruction in a laboratory setting.

Q: How did you get started with Nearpod?

SIMPSON: Nearpod was on my radar from an ISTE conference a few years ago. I started asking the question, “how many high school students in Boston Public Schools have mobile devices?” It turns out that a majority of them do. (For this program year, 95% own a smartphone & 45% own a tablet) Nearpod is definitely solving a problem that I see, where the public schools are so overwhelmed with what they need to do to get students through testing, that they’re not thinking about how to use these mobile devices students are bringing to school for teaching and learning. We are saying yes to mobile devices for teaching and learning.

Q: How is Nearpod used in the AP Biology Hinton Scholars Program?

SIMPSON: The challenge for us is that we don’t control the students’ curricular experiences through the whole school day--they’re coming in after school. A lot of the time, graduate student and postdoc volunteers don’t know what the students have reviewed in the past couple weeks, so there’s a big question: “do they know this or not?” You can be in a room with students and say, “so what do you want to know?” but it’s a lot more powerful to say “turn on Nearpod, I’ve got a few questions for you that align to today’s topic in the lab.”

We have a probeware system and it uses a concentration measurement. The assumption is that everyone has read the materials and knows the term, ‘concentration.’ But if students don’t actually know what it means, then when they get in the lab they’re at a real disadvantage. So we’ll simply ask in Nearpod before they get in the lab, “can you define this term?” Sometimes the students have read about it, but they don’t really know it. So we use Nearpod to reinforce what they really should know.

We also have a program where any teacher in Boston Public Schools can sign up and bring their class for one lab session. For those students, we really don’t know what their background is. Before they get into the lab, we need to know some basics about their motivation, their familiarity with the overall framework of AP biology and with that particular lab topic. That helps us inform the instruction.

We use Nearpod embedded in both the tutoring and the lab experiences, and students are using their own devices to access Nearpod on Harvard Medical School Wifi. When students come in, we want them to be on task. Launching Nearpod is their cue to get on task. Nearpod is also a way of exposing students to technologies that they are most likely to see going forward. In addition to AP Biology, we are also trying to prepare them for college and for majoring in health careers and STEM fields.

We are big fans of professor of physics, Eric Mazur. Back in the ‘90s, he was trying to figure out why he was having trouble with getting students to communicate their understanding (as opposed to simply regurgitating information) and developed a collaborative teaching method called Peer Instruction. That’s the theoretical foundation for why we do some of these things. When students pair up, they discuss the questions and content--they go back and forth--and that’s exactly what we want to have happen.

Q: How do you work with the Harvard medical and graduate student tutors to coordinate this approach?

SIMPSON: Last year, I gave a simulated classroom experience where I demonstrated the Nearpod technology, taught the pedagogy, addressed what we want to try out and why. A lot of the tutors gravitated towards it, primarily because this was a way of getting some insight into where students are. Some of my tutors are now “powerusers.”

I create basic skeletons of Nearpod lessons that cover just the basics of what we want to accomplish. I then push that out to my powerusers, and they take it, adapt it, and share with each other. Some of my tutors have other teaching responsibilities at Harvard. This has opened their eyes to potentially using this tool in their other teaching ventures.

[tigrikorn]

MASH-UP!: Above is a collaboration comic I made with my Junior-high-age Cartooning Class. The students came up with characters they liked to see in a comic and then we developed the story on-the-fly, panel by panel. What fun and energy filled the small class of five students (four boys and one girl) as they laughed and imagined such absurdist pop-culture blends of plot lines. One student insisted on a Star Wars theme, another wanted to make a nod to Nintendo's Mario Bros. game. Still another chimed in to include Pokemon. And then there's Spider Pig (AKA Spider Ham) who is an observer to it all.

One thing this whole exercise helped me to realize is that today there is such a big trend for depicting pop-culture icons and characters in a myriad of ways. It shows how ideas and stories are ever-fluid and changing. Pop-culture figures that are re-imagined in ways like this get the most liked on social media like Facebook, Tumbler and Instagram.

It's a new era... or maybe it's just an ongoing example of what the human creative mind likes to do best.

[chefilona]

Holstein Dairy calf; even more adorable in RL. On the island there really is a great deal of effort made to ensure the comfort of the animal, and to stay on the forefront of health & safety protocols. This might be why our dairy is amongst the best in the Great White North! #dairy #cattle #calf #milk #canada #canadianfarmers #farm #dairycattle #pei #adl #animalcomfort #eastcoast #studentdriven #teacherlife #lifelonglearning #cheflife #criticalthinking #realfood #production #babyanimals

[junior-blog-missd]

I used this video on the first day of school to help students brainstorm our class rules and expectations for the year. After reflecting on what works best for each of us individually, then sharing our thoughts in partners, we gathered back together as a class to create an agreed upon list of rules and expectations for everyone to follow. Our list is as follows:

Be respectful

Be positive

Always try your best

Do not be afraid to ask for help when needed

Do not be afraid to talk when it is appropriate

Along with this list are a variety of rewards and consequences created by the students so that everyone can take ownership of their behavior. 

IT HAS WORKED WONDERFULLY SO FAR :)

[tigrikorn]

Minecraft style Captain Underpants versus Batman. Just another of my student-driven Cartooning Class collab comics!

[tigrikorn]

On day four of our Avengers cartooning class last week, students made action art for comic book covers! 🦸‍♂️✨👍

[chefilona]

These girls make me laugh so much! Bring out the phone, and @cynthia_pearson is immediately striking a pose 😂 Today was plant based burger day, and @brielleclark & @sarahelizabethjanepike were a part of the team that made a tasty variation of @ohsheglows Angela’s walnut & lentil loaf They topped their creation with @peibrewingcompany honey wheat ale battered onion rings. Amazing job ladies! #pei #canada #eastcoast #culinaryinstituteofcanada #community #goodfood #laughs #grrrlarmy #studentdriven #fridays #plantbased #vegan #vegetarian #greengoddess #boom #fridaymotivation #sofull #lovemyjob #beer #beerbattered #onionrings #liveyourbestlife #liveoutloud

[chefilona]

Thanks @harvest_wholesale for having the @culinaryinstituteofcanada students in as part of understanding procurement! How to get Food on the plate is essential to understand & execute! Student Driven Learning looks like this! #cicroadtrip #canada #culinaryinstituteofcanada #pei #procurement #produce #culinaryschool #food #cheflife #eat #reallife #learn #grow #coldroom #teachersofinstagram #studentdriven #studentlife

[chefilona]

My group E students made beautifully executed Eggs Benedict this morning. Paired with a gorgeous sunrise, this is a spectacular start to the week! @culinaryinstituteofcanada #pei #canada #cheflife #community #charlottetown #culinaryinstituteofcanada #hollandcollege #mondaymotivation #breakfast #studentdriven #culinaryschool #eggs #eggsbenedict #eggslut #nomnom #feedfeed #getsome #eater #eastcoastbeastcoast #canadianchef #instructorlife

[chefilona]

My @culinaryinstituteofcanada Group E students’ Breakfast Poutine! The love of nostalgic tater tots topped w/ maple candied sausage crumble @adl_pei & @franksredhot cheddar cheese sauce, scallions, and then topped w/ a sunny side-up egg. Delish! #mornay #mornayallday #pei #canada #canadianchef #culinaryinstituteofcanada #cheflife #community #charlottetown #eggs #cheese #breakfast #brekkie #eater #huffposttaste #eatergram #instayum #cook #studentdriven

[chefilona]

Thanks @eric.mcmurray for showing us the ins and out of making sausages out in the industry! We look forward to cooking up the sausages we made today! #studentdriven #culinaryinstituteofcanada #eastcoast #pei #butchery #sausages #oldschool #nomnom #livelovelearn #hustleandflow #bringit #getit #lovelocal #fooddaycanada #reallife #studentdriven #culinaryschool #hollandcollege #fieldtrip

[chefilona]

Playing & exploring food styling today @canadas_smartest_kitchen @culinaryinstituteofcanada! Great way to wind out the week with amazing colleagues & students! #pei #canada #eastcoast #eastcoastbeastcoast #foodography #food #foodstagram #foodstyling #foodfun #huffposttaste #culinaryinstituteofcanada #canadassmartestkitchen #fridaymotivation #culinaryschool #cheflife #studentdriven #reallifelearning #breakfast #canadianchefs