{"id":254,"date":"2014-02-09T15:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/ckirsh\/?p=254"},"modified":"2019-08-19T23:41:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:41:47","slug":"deeper-learning-mooc-internships-and-students-in-the-adult-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2014\/02\/09\/deeper-learning-mooc-internships-and-students-in-the-adult-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeper Learning Mooc: Internships and students in the adult world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the DLMooc, we are focusing on students in the adult world. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/timothyflanagan.blogspot.ca\/2014\/02\/whats-so-great-about-internships.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Flanagan<\/a>, I wasn\u2019t completely convinced that this week had a huge connection to my world as a Middle School English teacher, and so I wasn\u2019t entirely on top of my viewing and reading and posting this week. But I\u2019ve come to reconsider my position, especially after watching this Lens into the Classroom protocol.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/eEEKXE5zryo[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>The High Tech High students begin their internships in the 11th Grade: a stage of learning when students are normally starting to really consider what they will study in university and what challenges their adult lives will take on. While I don\u2019t think that students in Grade 7 should be so narrow in their vision to absolutely know what they will be when they \u201cgrow up\u201d, I do know that around the ages of 12 and 13, students are most certainly starting to articulate what they passionate about and what broad disciplines they are really curious about.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #33cccc\">One High Tech High student said that internships are \u201ca month to learn what you want\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Middle School answer to \u201cstudents in the adult world\u201d is through field work (this idea shows up in the protocol from one of the probing questions in regards to what is the difference between field work and internships).<\/p>\n<p>Could field work be the way that Middle School students get their feet <em>a little<\/em> wet in the adult world, solving real world problems, acting as a \u201cthink tank for community problems\u201d as Emilo Torres suggested, and give students the chance to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essentialschools.org\/resources\/417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">learn through their interests<\/a> to promote deep engagement?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m wondering if there are other Middle School teachers in the larger DLMooc group that are also grappling with how \u201cinternships\u201d or the \u201cadult world\u201d fits into their own version of school?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the DLMooc, we are focusing on students in the adult world. Like Tim Flanagan, I wasn\u2019t completely convinced that this week had a huge connection to my world as a Middle School English teacher, and so I wasn\u2019t entirely on top of my viewing and reading and posting this week. But I\u2019ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2014\/02\/09\/deeper-learning-mooc-internships-and-students-in-the-adult-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deeper Learning Mooc: Internships and students in the adult world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionplan","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}