As you may well know, the best laid plans of mice and morons … I fully intended to sit down and write this post this morning after I completed checking my kids papers. I started at 8 am, broke at noon for lunch, walked the dog, and then saw that I had thirty more papers in my inbox. Then I lost track of time and before I knew it … well, here I am.
I read my peers posts and I am most impressed. You all seem so much more together and in control of this. I am having issue with separating design and planning. I have ideas for class that will work fabulously--I think--but how I got there, and what the real purpose of having the students do their work somehow escapes me. It's like driving your car a long distance, and suddenly realizing you are somewhere but you don't remember getting there. Not that that happens to me all that often.
I am waiting for my "aha" moment I suppose. I see the light, it just keeps dimming on occasion. What a lousy post. Sorry.
I agree that it is difficult to separate the old ways of teacher planning to the new ways of being a designer. We have been talking so much about focusing on the "real" problem in our discussions. It is hard to reteach yourself how to design a lesson. I am slowly starting to understand the concept, but this Padawan has a long way before he becomes a Jedi.
ReplyDeleteBefore we can constructively use it, we must have some level of understanding of the design principles. It takes time, I don't claim to understand it all, but put it down in writing so that I can come back to it, and with each visit, gain some more insight. Still processing......
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