"A Night in the Global Village" and "The Edible School Yard"

The podcasts about "A Night in the Global Village" and "The Edible School Yard" were interesting to watch. " A Night in the Global Village" was about living the lives of other people from different places around the world such as Guatemala, Thailand, Zambia, and Refugee camps. Students from a school in Denver participated in the Global Gateway Program which gave them a chance to live the lesson that they were being taught. This gives them a sense of how people live and why. The students actually lived the same way as the people that their teacher picked for them to be. They also followed the rules for their area and who they were. After they had their experiences, they told about them in skits to everyone else.

"The Edible School Yard" was about a garden that is planted by students at the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkley, California. This garden was started by Alice Waters in 1994. The students use the school yard to plant, harvest, and eat. The garden and adjacent kitchen are learning labs for social studies, math, science, and life. The garden is the center for most of the teaching and part of it is done in the classroom.

Both of these podcasts helped me actually see the fun ways in which students can learn. As a teacher, I would love to use the same methods or similar methods to teach my students. Much of what is done in these methods of teaching is giving the "head fake" approach.

The podcasts about "A Night in the Global Village" and "The Edible School Yard" caters to many of the students learning styles. What was very interestingly used was visual and kinesthetic. These activities helped students to see and do what they were learning. This is the approach that I want to offer to my students. This gives some of them a better understanding of the lesson they are being taught.