When I found out that she was doing her project on movie reviews, she totally opened up the gates for a teachable moment. I suggested that she read professional reviews of movies that she has reviewed. I suggested she look up how other reviewers leave their stamps on their reviews, be it a thumbs up, stars, rotten tomatoes, etc. I said, are you including the names of the actors, directors, producers, what movies the actors have been in previously. She began to see that she needed to do a little digging before moving on with her reviews.
It had never occurred to the student that she could learn from looking at other people's work. This is precisely why I had students spend today's class period doing that. Of course I want to keep kids accountable for the time spent in class, so I made a Google Form where they had to reflect on what their goal was and whether or not they accomplished their research goal.
Knowing a few of the projects and how they needed some more information, I also posited that they could search how to take better pictures and videos, find recipes, how to get more traffic on their blogs and websites. Ultimately, it was open ended and they just needed to research something related to their project that will improve the work they are doing. Below area couple of students' summary of what they found from the research.
I hope that today was time well spent. What they did today will hopefully make for good blogging material for the students as well. I hope that they will periodically do some research on their own and make it a process they internalize so they can apply it to other situations. I guess that is the whole point of a project like this right?
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