Chapter 8

for this chapter talks about branching out and building connections there are three parts it is broken down into the first one is connecting with experts, when the projects are designed based on inquiry asking questions of experts becomes a huge part of the learning experience.sometimes this connection to me about the teacher introducing things online to make it connect with the students are learning. Can I do your students with expert will take some effort on the teachers part but you can start by developing a list of Willy experts. Knowing the skills of your students parents is a good place to begin you can give them surveys and then you can use those for years to come. But if they don't have the expertise you're looking for they might know someone who does. The next section is expanding the learning circle, this is saying you should reach out and expand your learning community to not just your classroom or your school but finding participants from other districts, cities, states, countries or continents. And the third one is simply communicating your findings.you need to find authentic opportunities for your students to share their research or advocate for a cause to make it more powerful.
Knowing that it brings us into the EAST Inititive Model. This stands for the environmental and spatial technologies. Which is simply demonstrating the benefits of using technology for real purpose or to solve problems and make improvements in their communities. They use geospatial technologies and Moulton media tools there more found in professional settings but now used by students in applying them to problems that interest them.
I believe this ties into letting the students leave their own projects. You want to start with an idea that they care about and then have them work through it they will be more passionate about it.
Turning this into our project I believe it is important that students leave their own projects and there's a lot of wiggle room with an art project for the students to go their own direction.