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CSLE and COVA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
To increase student engagement on my campus, I plan to implement Blending Learning<\/a> to help Creating Significant Learning Environment CSLE<\/a>. My goal is to create a safe place where all students are engaged regardless of their learning ability. \u201cIf we start with a student-centered approach and purposefully assemble all the key components of effective learning into a significant learning environment we can help our students to learn how to learn and grow into the people we all hope they will become\u201d (Harapnuik et al.,2018). In order to create a CSLE I have to help students develop a growth mindset<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Through Blending Learning, I plan on giving students Choice, Ownership, Voice, and an Authentic Learning Experience<\/a>. This will also allow students to show understanding in their unique way. When students are given choice and ownership over their learning, engagement increases, and passion shows through their work, making it more authentic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is an example of students using inquiry while working collaboratively to construct a boat. The goal was for students to design a boat that would go around the world carrying 60 passengers. Students first researched different boats and how to make a boat out of household materials. Students tested the boat to confirm it would float and then added propellers to make it move. It took several tries to make the boat move, but students achieved their goal with collaboration. In the unsuccessful boat video, one student says it does not work and walks away. Soon after, the others tell him why the boat failed and that they should try something else. When things do not go as planned, we seem to get discouraged or give up, but working as a team, we lift each other with solutions like the students did in the video titled unsuccessful boat. Through activities similar to these students can develop a growth mindset<\/a>. Once the boat floated and moved around, students added Jolly Ranchers as passengers to check for buoyancy. Students added Jolly Ranchers in increments of 5 to check if the boat could move around the world without sinking or tipping over. All students were eager to participate and took turns trying different ideas. “Inquiry is an effective technique for learning because it produces stockpiles of experiences” (Thomas & Brown, 2011). Allowing students to be passionate about their learning makes them want to know more about it. Students become inquisitive and start asking themselves what-if questions while exploring and connecting to the world around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLearning through Play: Imagination, Passion, and Creativity <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Successful communities incorporate a new way of learning through play within inquiry, making, and collective. Students can collaborate, make inquiries, make something unique, and move around to different groups in the classroom based on what they are creating. “The teaching-based approach focuses on teaching us about the world, while the new learning culture focuses on learning through engagement within the world” (Thomas & Brown, 2011).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n