Thursday, July 21, 2016

The Power of Authentic and Connected Learning


By Jen Hegna

Mr. Murray's high school health class created public service announcements to educate others of the dangers of substance use/abuse.  As part of this project - students were required to reach out to an organization to obtain information and confer with them about their ideas. Students would then share their videos and receive feedback about their project.

Below is the public service announcement created by BHS students as well as a follow-up video interview of them talking about this project and the learning experience.   Because the students were required to connect to an  organization and produce real work for the entity,  the students were extremely empowered.  They also had unexpected lessons - like communicating professionally with businesses that the found useful.  

"Scarred" (2:27)

Student interview about their project (5:55)