Reflecting on my PBL of the Crossfit WOD, I feel students are a little more excited than usual toward their project. Probably because they achieved and completed a grueling crossfit workout. My strategy was to allow students to be hands on and experience the high intensity and functional movement in performing the MURPH WOD. I made a modify version of the WOD for the students instead of the full on version. I was very impressed how the students helped correct each other's form and motivated their peers on the vigorous workout. A great displayed of sociocultural example. Once all students completed the MURPH, I shared other crossfit videos such as ROY and FRAN. I noticed students were very attentive watching the videos. One of Baggio's principles in chapter 8 was "Develop a Visual Strategy". I wanted to provide many short videos that will keep students in tune with the content. Thus will give them ideas and bring creativity on developing their PBL. I felt inspired how many students already experience with presentations tools such as Google slides, Canva, and Renderforest. They displayed how tech savvy they were recording videos and uploading images on their presentation. Most importantly to me, I observed students were having fun while collaborating. As my first time assigning the Crossfit PBL, it went well but there can be a lot more improvement. I could have done a better job with the requirements and grading rubric. I also need to learn more presentation tools to better assist the students. Baggio recommends five strategies for aligning visuals and connecting to the learning objective: Keep it simple, keep it clear, keep it focused, connect with the content, and connect with the learner.
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Baggio- After reading chapter 5, I can totally relate to Baggio, "I had Post-it notes everywhere....If I wanted to remember it, I had to see it!" As I get older, I must type in notes on my calendar or notes to remember things. I am part of the 85% that are visual learners. It was refreshing reviewing the brain, and it's cerebral cortex. The brain allows the mind to operate and the mind is our conscious and unconscious experiences and is subjective in nature. It is our awareness. However, Baggio do not believe we learn by thinking but by believing in emotion and natural instinct which plays a role in our learning. There are three domains: Affective, Cognitive, and Conative. Affective Domain "how you feel", Cognitive Domain "how you think", Conative Domain "how you naturally or instinctively do what you do". A question I have that Baggio states is facebooking, podcasting, and uploading video to YouTube not necessarily help people learn. I may interrupted wrongly but I have learned from those medias in the past. Clark- As I go through my Crossfit lesson plan and reflecting back, reading Clark's Four Ingredients of Instruction gave me ideas to make it more effective for students. The four major ingredients are information, performance outcomes, instructional methods, and instructional media. The information is the obvious facts, concepts, processes, procedures, or principles. The performance outcomes are the clear instructions on what the student will be doing after receiving the course information or description. Instructional methods are what needed to deliver the information to help the student in achievement. Instructional media is what resource will help students to learn efficiently and effectively in the instructional outcome. Dervin- Revisiting Dervin's, I have try to use the sense-making triangle to increase students' focus and attention (situation, gap, help). Since the situation provides the context in which the individual needs to make sense of something or (gap), drive student to seek help. As students are introduced to crossfit, they learned that crossfit is constant variant of exercises, functional movements, and high intensity which all comes together to get fit at a more productive pace. Most students are eagered to improve their fitness assessments. DQ- "Impact of Technology on Achievement and Engagement in Meeting Fitness Goals" Possible DQ - How can technology and music increase students' fitness scores? Need to knows- -Should I create a video or presentation of myself to give students visual of how to display their crossfit presentation? -Create a survey to get student feedback of the crossfit wod. sThroughout my years of teaching my primary audience is my students. I understand students are writing, researching, graphing etc. in their core classes, I try to have my lesson plans gear towards physical movement, caloric expenditure, and body composition. Not all students are highly skilled in running the mile or be able to complete ten perfect push-ups, therefore catering to students engagement, motivation, and interest (fun) is important to my teaching. I experienced a lot of success using music (Fit Radio, Spotify, iTunes) as a tool to increase students physical movement and motivation. Another technology tool I found helpful is Kahoot it. Using Kahoot as a study guide has increase students' learning and a friendly competitiveness. I also agree that I have a duel audience in students and colleagues. At ACMS, we have Friendly Feedback at our grade level department meeting, where a teacher have the opportunity to share their next PBL or activity. I found it beneficial to listen to other's strategies and how they incorporate technology. This gives me an opportunity to collaborate with other colleagues in different subject and be able to use cross-curricular teaching. |
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