Earlier this year, Nancy Benton and Malachi Ewbank at CCE had the brilliant idea to take the concept of EdCamp for educators and reinvent it for their learners. Each learner chose a topic that interested them and presented it to their friends in a fun and engaging way. I had the opportunity to see the first EdCamp and the topics ranged from sports to cooking. These two educators took it a step further for this past week-long EdCamp. Each of their learners chose a reading topic to do a review lesson on and prepared an experience for their fellow 5th graders. Every morning from 8:15-9:45 this week, learners presented their topics and went to presentations about other reading strategies that they needed to review.
The QR code for the learners to get the schedule for the day.
Here is the schedule for their EdCamp.
This group worked on fiction vs. non-fiction literature.
Inferencing is always a hot topic to review!
Learners thinking about the inferencing task posed to them.
This group was playing song clips for similes and metaphors. This room was definitely not the most quiet but all the learners were very engaged!!
EdCamp was a success and every learner had a chance to review reading skills that they needed. This model gave ownership to the learners and could work in any subject area!
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