“Notice every step forward and take advantage of each small success.”
– Deepak Chopra

Today our students were part of a rare and semi-exclusive event with the Discovery Education scientists and explorers. Discovery Education is partnering with Polar Bears International for an exciting week of virtual field trips for students and educators to the annual polar bear migration in Churchill, Canada. Their team arranged for a special Q&A with some of the scientists who will be on site studying the migration. Through a Google Hangout, a classroom of students from our district were able to interact with these polar bear experts and get a behind-the-scenes look at the polar bear migration.

As we gain more experience with various technologies and modes of communication and learning, we are able to bring learning alive to our students. During this experience, for example, our teachers had the students “back channel” or communicate via a service called Today’s Meet so internally the students were able to ask questions and make comments in real time for instant feedback and follow up as well as feedback and follow up after the virtual field trip.

Please click below to hear some audio from the live event!