THREE years with Barrie

Recently I have begun to take the concepts presented from our Barrie Bennett sessions regarding Instructional Intelligence and trying to incorporate these ideas with educational technology (more specifically SmartBoards). 

I have had some success utilizing Concept Attainment Strategies of Yes/No and Testers.  And have begun exploring the introduction of Mind Maps to help formalize concepts the students are exploring during the lesson.

Personally, I have had times when I needed to totally redo an entire file, because I left little hints throughout the lesson as to what the concept was...  For example, when the first slide was titled "RATIOS", and then I asked the class what concept they were exploring one student politely told me Ratios.  I asked them how they knew this, and they told me it was on the first slide... 

Throughout this experience, I will realize that I have been spoon feeding my students too much...  And that it is easy to rely on this method...  However I am getting better.  In the next couple of posts I will be posting some of the SmartBoard files I have created, with a brief explanation in how they were used, and what was done, and how the students performed on the development of the specific concept the lesson was about.

However, I will point out that all video's have been removed, for either FOIP or other legal reasons.  I will mention in the post, what the general video was about, and if you so chose you will be able to locate a video of your own choosing...

Let me know how I have done...

Loading mentions Retweet