6 Word Memoir: Active Learning Experience via Padlet
6 Word Memoir: Active Learning Experience via Padlet
This week I learned about an active learning experience called "6 word memoir." This activity was engaging, creative, and had a technology component. You would think that 6 words would not make much of an impact, but they sure do!
A six word memoir is a six word limit on a description of something. In this case the prompts were centered around a specific school or how the student felt about themselves. This was a school wide initiative to close out the school year. In addition to the six words students designed their own slides as, well. At the end, around 420 six word memoirs were combined in one huge power point to share with all the school, family, and friends.
Active learning, like the six word memoir, is a meaningful way to learn hands on in a number of different content areas. It makes class more interactive for students and teachers. It also allows students to go beyond norms of the traditional book and paper class set up. Students use their creative bone to establish the new knowledge they have gained.
I have a few great examples of interactive learning that I have done in my social studies classroom. One of my favorite is a PSA announcement or commercial based on historical letters from the Great Migration. Students research and read primary sources online, mainly letters, that informed them of the experience of African Americans either from the south moving north, or already north and communicating with the south. They combined the historical evidence they found into a short video and then posted it to google classroom to share with the class. A second, less technology based, active learning experience was protest posters of modern companies, as we learned about the horrors of the Industrial Revolution. This really empowered my students and allowed them to create a voice for some of the injustices still seen today in the work place. They researched and then created a physical poster that was displayed throughout the school. I only wish I took a picture of a few to show everyone!
Resources:
Original 6 Word Memoir Blog Post
Six Word Memoirs
About Active Learning
This week I learned about an active learning experience called "6 word memoir." This activity was engaging, creative, and had a technology component. You would think that 6 words would not make much of an impact, but they sure do!
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A six word memoir is a six word limit on a description of something. In this case the prompts were centered around a specific school or how the student felt about themselves. This was a school wide initiative to close out the school year. In addition to the six words students designed their own slides as, well. At the end, around 420 six word memoirs were combined in one huge power point to share with all the school, family, and friends.
Active learning, like the six word memoir, is a meaningful way to learn hands on in a number of different content areas. It makes class more interactive for students and teachers. It also allows students to go beyond norms of the traditional book and paper class set up. Students use their creative bone to establish the new knowledge they have gained.
I have a few great examples of interactive learning that I have done in my social studies classroom. One of my favorite is a PSA announcement or commercial based on historical letters from the Great Migration. Students research and read primary sources online, mainly letters, that informed them of the experience of African Americans either from the south moving north, or already north and communicating with the south. They combined the historical evidence they found into a short video and then posted it to google classroom to share with the class. A second, less technology based, active learning experience was protest posters of modern companies, as we learned about the horrors of the Industrial Revolution. This really empowered my students and allowed them to create a voice for some of the injustices still seen today in the work place. They researched and then created a physical poster that was displayed throughout the school. I only wish I took a picture of a few to show everyone!
Resources:
Original 6 Word Memoir Blog Post
Six Word Memoirs
About Active Learning
I'm curious, did you notice any difference in your students when they were involved in your two projects from when they were completing more passive work? Thanks for including additional resources on your Padlet to learn more about 6 word memoirs!
ReplyDeleteYes! There was a huge difference in the overall behavior and engagement of my students when doing the active learning. They we’re motivated to create! For the poster activity they were angered and wanted create change!
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