Increasing Student Engagement with Four Cs
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This document discusses ways to increase student engagement through curiosity, choice, complexity, and creativity. It encourages sparking curiosity through questions, choice, open-ended challenges and complex problems. Remixing and reimagining ideas from different perspectives and genres is presented as a way to foster creativity. The document emphasizes cultivating lifelong curiosity and learning.
Increasing Student Engagement with Four Cs
- 3. WELCOME
- 4. Curiosity
- 5. Around here we don’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- 6. Curiosity is the root of creativity. Alex Wright Imagineer
- 7. 2005
- 15. IQ = Curiosity + Effort (von Stumm, Hell, and Camorro-Premuzic, 2011)
- 16. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
- 22. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE STUCK?
- 28. puzzlements.co
- 29. Know it All
- 30. Know it AllLEARN
- 31. GO
- 32. GO
- 35. Your Brain Likes Curiosity
- 37. Choice
- 43. Why are kids so much better at this than adults?
- 46. I WONDER WHY SCAMPER SUPER HEROES WHAT IF…
- 47. ILLUSION OF CHOICEILLUSION OF CHOICE
- 48. I wonder…
- 50. Encourage students to keep asking “WHY?” (even after it gets annoying).
- 53. SCAMPER
- 54. SUBSTITUTE
- 55. COMBINE
- 56. ADAPT
- 59. ELIMINATE
- 71. INTENSITIES
- 72. MOTIVATED BY A MISSION OR A QUEST FOR TRUTH
- 74. In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!!!
- 77. superherodb.com
- 81. What if…?
- 83. Identify the three films that you would take to a deserted island….
- 84. Part B: Why do you think you connected with these stories? Come up with at least one reason for each. Part C: What, if anything, do these three films have in common? How are they different?
- 86. NEXT: Return to your 3 favorite films and try reframing each of them in terms of a "what if" statement. Share these with someone (you have not talked with today) and see if they can guess what movie it is from!
- 87. LUNCH
- 88. WELCOME BACK
- 92. People who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
- 93. Where is the restroom?
- 94. What time is the 3 o’clock parade? What time is the 3 o’clock parade?
- 96. Complexity
- 98. LANGUAGE OF THE DISCIPLINES What terms or words are specific to the work of the disciplinarian? What tools does the disciplinarian use? Nomenclature, lexicon, or vocabulary of the study
- 99. DETAILS Traits, attributes, characteristics to describe something What are its attributes? What features characterize this? What specific elements define this? What distinguishes this from other things?
- 100. PATTERNS Reoccurring events What are the reoccurring events? What elements, events, and ideas are repeated? What was the order of events? How can we predict what will come next?
- 101. TRENDS Influences or forces that shape ideas What ongoing factors have influenced this study? What factors have contributed to this study?
- 102. UNANSWERED QUESTIONS Unknown areas of a discipline What is still not understood about this area, topic, study, or discipline? What is yet unknown about this area, topic, study, or discipline? In what ways is the information incomplete or lacking in explanation?
- 103. ETHICS Dilemmas, controversies, issues What dilemmas or controversies are involved in this areas, topic, study, or discipline? What elements can be identified that reflect bias, prejudice, and discrimination?
- 104. BIG IDEAS Generalizations, principles, theories What overarching statement best describes what is being studied? What general statement includes what is being studied?
- 105. RULES Stated or unstated reasons or explanations How is this structured? What are the stated and unstated causes related to the description or explanation of what we are studying?
- 106. OVER TIME Past, present, future happenings How are ideas related between the past, present and future? How are these ideas related within or during a particular time period? How has time affected the information? How and why do things change or remain the same?
- 107. ACROSS DISCIPLINES Connections between and across disciplines How are these ideas related or connected?
- 108. POINTS OF VIEW Perspective, opinion What are the opposing viewpoints? How do different people and characters see this event or situation?
- 109. Creativity
- 110. Story
- 119. REMIXCONTENT + CREATIVITY + TECHNOLOGY IAN BYRD byrdseed.com BRIAN HOUSAND brianhousand.com
- 121. “There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations.”
- 122. remix: defined
- 123. Everything is a remix. - Kirby Ferguson
- 127. PONDER
- 128. They must know how to link apparently unconnected elements to create something new. People who hope to thrive in the Conceptual Age must understand the connection between diverse, and seemingly separate disciplines. -- Daniel Pink in AWhole New Mind
- 129. REMIXCONTENT + CREATIVITY + TECHNOLOGY RECIPES
- 130. CHANGE THE SETTING
- 132. CHANGE THE AUDIENCE
- 133. CHANGE THE NARRATOR
- 134. CHANGE THE GENRE
- 135. Summary The pigs will be space pilots creating the first human settlements on Mars. Their structures will be threatened by their own malfunctioning robot. However, the robot is also their only hope of returning home.
- 136. Non-Examples It’s like The Three Little Pigs, but they’re dogs. Instead of a brick house, it’s made of stone. The pigs will live in a desert!
- 137. REMIXCONTENT + CREATIVITY + TECHNOLOGY PERSUADE
- 138. Persuasion Three Martians is a suspenseful, sci-fi take on The Three Little Pigs. It takes the classic story and retells it for an older audience. There is real danger for the characters as they try to stop the robot while keeping it working so they can return to earth.
- 139. Non-Examples It will be better. You will like it since it’s funnier. This version will have lots of interesting things.
- 141. REMIXCONTENT + CREATIVITY + TECHNOLOGY YOUR TURN
- 145. REMIXCONTENT + CREATIVITY + TECHNOLOGY MOVIE POSTERS
- 146. TITLE + FONT = LOGO TAGLINE ICONIC IMAGE
- 149. REMIX POSTER PLANNING! ! TITLE! ! FONT ! ! ! ! TAGLINE! Sum up your story in one memorable sentence. ! ! ICONIC IMAGE! What three images come to mind when thinking of your story? ! ! CAN YOU TAKE A PICTURE OR DO YOU NEED TO FIND ONE? ! ! ! WHAT COLORS WILL YOU USE? ! DISPLAY HANDWRITING SERIF SANS SERIF THREE ! ADJECTIVES 1 2 3 1 2 3
- 154. CURIOSITY
- 155. JOYOUS
- 156. IMAGINATION
- 157. CREATIVITY
- 158. PASSION
- 159. STOP
- 160. GO