A Boxing Tale - Using Video to Tell Story in PE
I was approached with the idea of collaborating on a summative project for the MYP Grade 7 and 8 PE Boxing unit. The idea that was pitched was a grand event where students would share their movies. The image in my mind was of a PYPx or some other kind of exhibition. My role was to be the facilitator for the exhibition.
The first question I had was what were the ATLs? What were the skills students were to focus on?
My next question was about adding the ATL of Information Literacy or Media Literacy as seen in the enhanced PYP ATLs. I am not up to date on the MYP ATLs, so it seemed that might be a logical starting point.
Then I wondered what could be the "hook" for the students on this project. As I understood the unit when I came out of the initial meeting, I would just be supporting the final exhibition. I assumed the students would play their movies on their laptops, so I wondered if we could use AR to do something creative with movie posters. I had recently seen an art teacher on Instagram [link coming] that does some pretty amazing things with the AR app, EyeJack.
So I went away with a little more of an idea of what was going on.
Some ideas for next time:
- Get the unit plan
- Have the teachers articulate their objectives
- Have the teachers tell their ATLs [skills] and how the students will show them
- Make time to talk with the teacher before the unit starts to see the bigger picture and to ask clarifying questions
