One of our challenges as teachers this year was to incorporate roles for students. In class students have been rotating the roles of videographer, photographer and researcher. In Fifth grade yesterday, a student had a question about the meaning of the phrase "mutton stew." I didn't have an answer so I handed him my iPad and told him to look it up using Safari. It took him about two minutes to find the answer. We paused after speaking the poem again and he shared with us what he had learned about it.
Another student in the same class asked who the composer of our new song was. It is a beautiful melody and I knew it was a folk song, but didn't know the name. Again this student was handed my iPad to look it up while we worked on pitch. He found it and was excited to share the name of the composer, that it is a Russian folk song and has different text in some versions. He read the new text to the class and then shared that he had found it was also the basis of an opera. As well as sharing that the entire song is over ten minutes long! Love the impact and learning that is going on in the classroom with our technology. Students are asking great questions and giving great feedback!!
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