Assignment 3

1. How will your project meet your students’ learning styles and needs?

I want the students to create an oral history or documentary about a particular subject, which will require an interview component. My students vary in learning styles, needs and motivation which can be very challenging. Luckily, I have the media component to spark their interest. However, because the content of the media projects require research, writing, planning and revision, many students struggle with the level of complexity and the amount of work involved. The most important factor in addressing their learning styles and needs is to provide a highly structured lesson, with clear objectives, a calendar and checklist and numerous scaffolding activities to break the project down into several components. It is rare that I can let students out into the "wilderness" and guide their own research.

2. How will your project address higher order thinking skills?

Interviews require good questions, probing questions, and active listening. These are higher order thinking skills. Particularly if students are to develop questions that will evoke responses that correspond to a particular event, theme or idea. Students will have to think about the time period, understand their interview subject and craft questions that will elicit strong responses which they will use to create a documentary or oral history.

3. How will your project address the skills business and industry tell us are important? (Collaboration, Decision Making Skills, Connecting to the Real World)

Collaboration-working with an interview subject and classmates to create the project
Decision Making Skills-deciding what to ask and when to ask the right questions, particularly if they are personal.
Connecting to the Real World-Documentaries, although they are subjective, connect the audience to the subject.