Episode 9

Introductions Michael Lambert, a Middle School teacher from Concordia International School in Shanghai joined Jeff and David for tonight’s show. Essential Question How to go deeper in student learning? Why go deeper? David: See his blog post. Jeff: Engage student and allow them to be nodes of information. Take away from the discussion- Mike's 5 Strategies for Deeper Learning: Go one to one with laptops so students have access to information to answer their questions. Let's students "rewind", go back to information when they need to further their understanding. Project-based Learning: cross discipline the learning in real world applications. Example: Mike's class visited a bike shop which connected economics, science, math and community building. They also went to a landfill, about learned alternative fuels and made further connections to being better citizens of the Earth. Visuals- let the images tell the story. Strong connection to student brains. Evokes the emotion