There is an obvious emerging trend in all of the project work I\u2019ve seen with the High Tech High Deeper Learning Course: most projects have an audience outside of the classroom. While I have had some success with this in my own project planning, I am realizing that it is a an area of \u201cdeeper\u201d or \u201c21st century\u201d learning that I want to focus more on.<\/p>\n
[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qM6P6buGNvY#action=share[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
Here is another project tuning protocol from a High Tech High teacher eliciting feedback on a project her students did: writing and publishing a book about the products they use everyday.<\/p>\n
I think the hardest challenge I am finding as a new teacher is to find the time to plan these authentic projects, when most of my school experience was designed in an entirely different way. We, as teachers, draw on our most recent learning experiences, and it is unfortunate that we were not trained in this way as students.<\/p>\n
This is why I actually love the work that happens through something like Cohort 21: we are in many ways unlearning how to \u201cdo school\u201d. If we participate in personalized learning experiences, we will better know how to facilitate them for our students. Part of me wonders if the Deeper Learning experience should be around modelling this essential \u201creal world \/ authentic\u201d audience for us teachers so that we can go back and re-create it for our students.<\/p>\n
How can we possibly reinvent the wheel if we don\u2019t experiment with it ourselves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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