Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Scaffolding

The "Brainstorming" document gave me a starting off point for my thinking. It helped my group narrow down or topic into something that would work with the perimeters given to us in the assignment. The "Problem Filter" allowed us to "test" our idea to see if it was something that we could actually solve in the school system. The "Action Plan" document allowed us to come up with a step by step process for what needed to be done. By doing it electroncially it allowed us to change our thinking and steps easily without having to do much work. It made the final product of the "action pan" much cleaner than it would have looked on paper because we were able to cut, and paste items into lower rows as needed. I prefer to work with this method eletrontically because it allows for that freedom and doesn't require students to waste so much paper. When using the powerpoint slides with your prompts in them it allowed us to tailor our thinking for each slide to what was needed. It was a great time-saver and organizer for us to have them there to refer to. I appreciated the fact that they were there because it allowed me to think only about the subject that was at hand instead of what I was going to do overall throughout the whole slide show. This was the best tools for organization in this lesson and I believe that students as the learners will turn in higher quality of work because they will know exactly what you want from them and how the powerpoint should be organized. It does offer structure but also allows for freedom at the same time.

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