- Challenge
- Initial Thoughts
- Perspectives & Resources
- Assessment
- Wrap-Up
As with any lesson, these steps SHOULD already be included so I see this model being embraced to aid teachers in providing a higher quality lesson and ensuring they have included all necessary steps to ensure learning has taken place.
In my own teaching, I could see using this model and applying it to each Unit. I feel that it could easily be used per objective or topic, however I would be more interested in creating the multiple objectives (2 to 3) and providing a more lengthy module in which students are able to build on. Here, they would be able to create a capstone project that is multi-faceted rather than specific to one topic. This can ensure that students are more well-rounded in the content and understand how the "bits and pieces" found within the entire Unit fit together.
To see this take place online, as much as I'd hate to admit, I see this forming within a Wiki. I believe having students utilize resources such as a PB Works wiki, could provide a wonderful platform/workspace where they can dig deep into each Unit. Here they could provide reflective pieces for each step of the STAR model and provide a means of showing their capstone project. With access to the course resources found within the Module, they could essentially reproduce the lesson in a way they may want to teach it. This could later serve as an Exam Review item or a model for future students.
Heather -
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that this process should be included with all lessons. It always strikes me when I talk with instructors or trainers who do not do this at some level.
I really can see using a Wiki as a great resource with this model. It could really help students use wikis effectively as it would help give them some structure to the wiki.
"I see this model being embraced to aid teachers in providing a higher quality lesson..." I think one of the benefits of this model is not only helping teachers visualize what should be included, but as Schwartz pointed out, having a consistent model with the visual graphic also helped orient students to where they were in the learning process:
ReplyDelete"We knew from earlier implementations that students, and often times teachers, felt lost (Barron et aI., 1995). They did not know how particular activities fit together or how the activities would contribute to their overall understanding of the problem or their ability to complete the project... it is designed to help teachers and students transfer inquiry practices from one topic to another because they can see similarities across the inquiry activities."
It thought this was a simple but powerful learning cue and loved how it was used as a navigation tool in the Vanderbilt online modules. This is a take-away from this week that I will be sure to implement in the future.
Interesting to read your mention of using a wiki -- in thinking about our third module, I was starting to wonder if incorporating a wiki might be one way to go for certain parts of the module, like the resources section, or the wrap up section. In fact, I went looking to see how/if we might be able to embed a wiki within our weebly site. One way to do that might be to set up a very simple looking wiki and use some iframe code to embed it on one of our pages, but it will take some experimenting...
ReplyDeleteI think wiki's are great for implementing this model. Any web 2.0 tools that allow its' users to attach files and have a discussion are great for STAR. Google Wave is a great tool that I have just start using and is great for collaboration.
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