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 * //FETC Application – 2008//**

• Student Provocateurs – High Interest, Collaborative Learning, Action!
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Session Description (2000 characters) Participants will be introduced to the Student Provocateurs model, a successfully implemented educational approach that incorporates digital media with important ideas to engage students in learning. Inspired by Dewey’s notion that where there is genuine interest there is personal identification with a course of action, students create videos about topics they care enough about to want to get others thinking about them too.

Ways to implement the model with currently available materials including software and hardware will be reviewed and demonstrated, including freeware editing tools, a free online collaborative video editing website, digital video cameras, available capture mediums and wikis for sharing and dialogue. Participants will then divide into teams tasked with developing a 30 second skit about an idea important to them that provokes dialogue among the other participants. Team “performances” will be followed by group reflection and discussion. Through cycles of action and reflection participants will develop their ideas through to production and showing Participants will be given the opportunity to reflect on how their own social networking in the session facilitated learning, and plan for how to implement it. Peers Activities will be divided into the following percentages:

5% - Student Provocateur model introduction 15% - Software and hardware review and demonstration 30% - Team skit development 30% - Team skit presentations, reflections and discussion 10% - Participant social networking 10% - Action research review, final discussion and questions

How can video--the cornerstone of digital media--be used to engage students in learning and life? Student Provocateurs combines 21st century skills with technology to offer students the opportunity to combine genuine interest and personal identification with a course of action. Learn to provoke dialogue & engage students in collaborative learning.
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Teaching and Learning - Focus areas, no primary, no secondary Secondary Educators
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