wonderpoints - cue 2011
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Cell phones and other handheld devices open up new possibilities for learning from the world outside. Like WebQuests, the WonderPoints model provides a workable framework that can be used for a wide range of grade levels and subjects.TRANSCRIPT
It’s all aboutImportant Questions
WonderPoints:A Structure for Engaging
Curiosity in the World Outside your Classroom
Bernie Dodge, PhD
San Diego State University
¿Cell phones and other handheld devices open up new possibilities for learning from the world outside. Like WebQuests, the WonderPoints model provides a workable framework that can be used for a wide range of grade levels and subjects.
An In-Your-Seat Experience
Is there wonder in your classroom?
Traditional Research Project
Natural Learning
Qualcomm Grant
Guiding Question:
Is there a way to use handheld technology to reawaken wonder in
middle & high school learners?
Why Mobile Technology?
Four Ideas We’re Trying Out
• Event Capture• Wonderpoints• WebQuest 3.0• WHex
WonderPoints
• Identify a plot of ground • Go out as a class and capture voice notes,
geotagged photos• Propose interesting questions• Post them, rate them for interestingness, and
then find answers
What used to
be here?
What used to
be here?
What kind of tree is
that?
What kind of tree is
that?
When were these
houses built?
When were these
houses built?
What does this sign mean?
What does this sign mean?
What does that thing
on the roof do?
What does that thing
on the roof do?
Two Ways to do WonderPoints
• Email geotagged photos using a single email address & view them in Picasa, Google Maps & Google Earth
• Use Crowdmap and Ushahidi
The Second Way to do WonderPoints
Use Crowdmap and Ushahidi
Ushahidi in Haiti
OK… what about YOUR neighborhood?
Setting up your own private Ushahidi
WonderPoint Possibilities
• Open-ended wonder• Signs• Plants and trees• Architecture & history• Blight, graffiti, crime• Watershed
• Senses• Shapes• Heights & distance• Language• Infrastructure
Types of Wonder
• Who? (people)• What? (names, categories, kinds)• When? (history, origin)• Why? (purpose, motive)• How? (process)
WonderPoint Steps
1 Decide on a fruitful place to investigate2 Take the kids there & capture their points of
wonder3 Discuss back in the classroom & allow them to
divide up the task of looking for answers4 Add answers to the map
Motivational Elements
• Provides recognition for coming up with good questions
• Provides recognition for finding good answers using research after the visit
• Encourages curiosity, looking at ordinary surroundings with a beginner’s mind.
• Different classes can explore the same plot from the perspectives of math, history, English, science, etc.
ConcreteConcrete
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Interactions
Interactions
Interactions
Interactions
Interactions
Interactions
Thank you!
• Qualcomm Wireless Reach• SDSU Center for Teaching Critical & Creative
Thinking• Jess Sanders, Grad Assistant