In the beginning of the presentation, Dr. Tyson said, “Why do we want to stick it on the bulletin board, when we can show it to the world.” This statement really hit home for me. I think its great students are creating meaningful projects and Dr. Tyson is giving them the chance to show their work to the world. Dr. Tyson could have censored their projects, but he had faith in their abilities and they excelled in research and presentation.
I think this type of collaborative work builds an amazing community, with teacher/student relationships and student/student relationships. Dr. Tyson said these projects allow students to be authentically assessed, the student works far beyond an A. I agree, by researching and creating, these students are making it easy to be authentically assessed and I think they deserve to be published. Their hard work is evident and it makes me excited to see how intelligent and compassionate these students are about global issues.
My favorite video was The dark side of chocolate. I had no idea, that children in Africa were being used to harvest coco crops for chocolate companies. Thanks to those students, I will be buying free trade chocolate from now on. I mean, the students are teaching us and that makes me super excited. I also thought this video was exceptional (they all were), but the penny changing into the child’s face was super cool.
