Day 4 afternoon

How has the experience of working with studetns on designing a video game impacted how you communciate or relate to your students?

I think I have always had an effective way of communcating with my students, here and at school. The guys in my group have been really easy to work with - very excited, very motivated and hard workers. They have worked will together and acoomplished a lot this week. This has made my communcation and relations with them very easy. I think if they had been less cooperative I may have had more difficulty in communcating my ideas and needs to them.

I know that I have found myself listening more to what they think about things - obviously they are the experts - notme! I think that I need to do that more in my classroom teaching because I sometimes feel that my students ahve somehting to say but don't say it because they don't think I'll listen. This may be their own perception or a message I am inadvertently sending but either way I think this experience may help me to open up more to student ideas.