Today I asked a student if I could record them explaining how to do stop motion photography. I told the student that it would be for teachers who have not done stop motion before. This student reassured me that he had learned the important steps to creating a video. Originally, I thought I would be in control and tell him what to say- but sure enough we only did one take and I felt what he said was perfect. I couldn’t have done it better myself, he kept it basic and right to the point. He did it in a manner that the participants in our spotlight next week will understand what to do.
I feel my students in 4th grade had the most success with stop motion photography this year. They had the basics taught to them last year when I used a more teacher-directly instructed approach. This year, I encouraged student collaboration and inquiry. The students were very successful, however I don’t feel they would have had as much success if they didn’t have the teacher-direct instruction as the ground work.
If the students only had the teacher-direct instruction I don’t feel they owned their work, nor did they enjoy it as much. On the other hand, if the students went straight into an inquiry approach I feel they may have missed some of the basic steps of how everything is to operate correctly.
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