I was told about the most incredible discussion among sixth graders today. A teacher friend asked some of his students if they were willing to try out a new project: "Pecha Kucha" projects in PowerPoint. (If you're not familiar with this, check out the wikipedia explanation. These are not your typical PowerPoint presentations!)
We had discussed these Pecha Kucha projects in our last team meeting, and wondered how students would react to creating these. Well, the answer to our wondering is, with LEARNING!
Student pairs are working together to create projects over World History assignments, and instead of the typical cut and paste, bullet points, cool backgrounds, etc. we are getting students having heated discussions that go something like this:
"Why did you put that slide before this one? Didn't this person influence that to happen? And so the slide with the picture of him should be first; we should discuss his impact first!"
And, "Which event caused the other one to take place? Which one is more important? Why? I think this event caused the revolt, but you think the revolt caused this event..." And so on....
Listening in to students who were given minimal instructions discuss this - WOW! IT really is ALL about the LEARNING!
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