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Anatomy of a Project: "Kinetic Conundrum"Art, history, engineering, language arts, and technology, both old and new, come together for eighth grade students in this rich project learning expedition at King Middle School in Portland, Maine.
Art, history, engineering, language arts, and technology, both old and new, come together for eighth grade students in this rich project learning expedition at King Middle School in Portland, Maine.
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Release Date: 04/01/2010
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Produced, Written, and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
Editor
- Karen Sutherland
Coordinating Producer
- Amy Erin Borovoy
Camera Crew
- Gilberto Nobrega
- Kevin Kalunian
Production Assistant
- Doug Keely
Narration
- Carl Bidleman
Original Music
- Ed Bogas
- © 2010
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
Support for Edutopia's Schools That Work series is provided, in part, by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
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Not only did that look fun
Not only did that look fun and engaging for the students but also for the teachers. What a fantastic project. I am definitely going to be looking at how I might be able to use Google Walking Tours to implement some sort of variation to this project.
Kinetic Arts Project at King Middle School
This is a wonderful video example of innovative cooperative community participation "real-life" multi-subjects education, and to see it happen at the middle school level is an additional "awesome"...
I have lots of "teacher" questions that the brief video did not answer, could not answer...because it was meant to be brief...
So I will email the school administration and teachers directly to inquire further about their "tools shop" program and to hopefully get a more complete understanding of how the "kinetic sculpture public arts project" continued toward completion, and "lessons-learned", etc.
This is Inspiring Education, but there are lots of practical questions for me to follow-up on...
just a few examples:
1. What kind of Administration Official Rules and Regulations go with the day-to-day functioning of the "Tools Shop" in the school?
--Unsupervised use of power tools by middle-school students can be a very dangerous proposition...
1.1 What are the legal liabilities involved, and there is no explanation of the shop tools training sessions, and semester(?) course outline scheduling, signed-parent statements of understanding for student participation, etc.
1.2 Can I assume that King Middle School is a Public School
with District Rules and Regulations and Administration Responsibilities, etc.
1.3 How large or small is King Middle School? The Teachers Summer Meeting session felt like this was a small charter-type school... with perhaps only a half-dozen teachers...?
2. Perhaps the State of Maine has a "laptop for every student policy"...? It looked like every student in the video had their own Mac(?) laptop...? That would be pretty amazing for public education
statewide...(?)
3. And I would like to have a fuller report from the School Teachers about the overall curriculum units and time-frames involved, and the continuing project towards completion...
Thank you for presenting this video... it is inspiring, but it leaves me with lots of important questions about practicality, implementation, results, lessons-learned, and legal liabilites, etc.
Allen Berg
Teacher