Wrangle It with a Rubric

Wrangle It with a Rubric

The article that is present by Regina D. Royer is mainly about the benefits of using multimedia in education. She mentions that by using multimedia students to create their own meaning and process of understand of the material at hand. The multimedia of today allows students to synthesize core concepts, select appropriate media, research topics, and evaluate resources. Also with the new boost in communication between people multimedia has incorporated social networks to be used.  Going further for people that have not yet considered  using multimedia the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) requires for the use of technology to be used and multimedia fits that requirement that the CCSS has put into place. the article then attempts to give a solution that helps with students getting side tracked or spending to much time on small details rather then the actual content of the material. So they say a teacher should have a rubric on the multimedia that is being used. The explain how many of the tools out there to be used come with guideline and rubric on how to use the program. they even include tutorials that help students learn the programs so that they do not waste time and finding how to do different things. the best thing is that these rubric keep the student on task and allow them to finish with the rubric as a guide. Schools has worked with the CCSS to design a rubirc that works with the multimedia and satisfies the standards for the school.

When I went to high school we had a academy with in the school called telecommunications academy that work along side with our history and English. We had a rubric on the things that we had to do for each class but we incorporated video projects, flash work, photoshop, and other multimedia tools that help us with doing our assignments. I have to admit that I did more to achieve a better grade with this program and while i was learning my history or English I also learned how to work a video  camera and make a move. So as a history teacher I would really push for my future school to have one of these programs.

This connects with research and information fluency because students use the tools of technology to achieve a better understanding of the material that they are studying. They gather info and inquire how to use the info gathered. They also use Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making to do research and manage their projects in a way that will be the most beneficial to them in the assignment

Royer, R. D. (2012, October). Wrangling It With A Rubric. Learning and Leading, 20. Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/201211#pg20

Excellent Educators

Excellent Educator 

       Matt Cuathron has a very unique classroom that he allows his students to become very interactive with his students and also allow his students to feel some control of the education the want. He does this through Apple challenge- Based module that help his students to create inspired work. With these modules the students are allowed to pick challenges that are collaborate, authentic, and competitive to decide on how there assignments and projects will be done. As I have written in my pass blogs this style of teaching that allows students to pick their path of doing work motivates the students into doing their work because  they pick how they do it and in what order. The students are doing the same work and probably even more do to the fact that they want to do the work. In Mr. Cuathron class the students do not just learn art but they learn the business work of art, the internet, portfolios, and other material. The great thing about this type of teaching is that in almost all the cases students just don't learn the classic but with technology integrated also. So the students are learning more than just the main material. I feel this keeps the student hungry for more. Matt works with artist around the world to create more of these challenges to for students to be more interactive in the module.
 
        As a future teacher I love to read how teachers allow there students to be free in a sense on how they do there assignments and projects that I had mention earlier in this blog I believe that studetns get the most this way. I would love to use a program where I can work with historians or a museum that creates or collaborates to help build education modules that students can work with and use technology to finish there projects. This would be a great help in my history class because many students don't understand or its hard for them to understand history with out experience the ideas that are trying to get across. With this the students can gain interactive experience that put them in situations of the past and would make them analyze it as if they were there.

In the end of the article form this teacher, Matt, we see that he does not only try to help his students but the rest of the people that like to access this system for educational purposes and not just but also the contributors benefit form this because they get to see what works and what does in article for learns of the trade. So it benefits the learner and the learned.

This goes with communication and Collaboration because students interact with artist around the world that design this modules and challenges for these students. But not just that they communicate and work with their peers to work and complete these modules that they have chosen to do in their class room.


 Cuathron, Matt. "Learning and Leading - November 2012." Learning and Leading - November 2012. N.p., Nov. 2012. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. <http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/201211>.