Packed with Potential: Engaging All Students with Learning Bentos
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Session description
Purpose & objective
This session will introduce participants to the Bento Box instructional strategy, which can be used as an alternative assessment across multiple content areas. Participants will be led through an exploration of the strategy and then work through activities designed to help them create a project for their students to complete. We’ll also discuss creating project examples and rubrics. Using the Universal Design for Learning framework, we will discuss ways to scaffold the Bento Box strategy to allow for multiple means of engagement, representation, action & expression to lend structure to the projects as students work on them.
Objectives: This workshop will:
> Introduce the bento box strategy as an alternative assessment option
> Increase participant understanding of student project design
> Review methods for creating project rubrics
Outline
(3 Min) Introductions (Process/Schema Activation Poll)
(5 Min) Learn about the Bento Box Strategy and the benefits of using it for summative assessment projects
(10 Min) Review best practices for project design - scaffolding assignments, rubrics, and exemplars (Process/think-pair-share)
(15 Min) Tech tools and templates for Bento Box Projects (Process/hands-on exploration)
(5 Min) Strategies for publishing
(4 Min) Example 1 Walk-thru - English
(4 Min) Example 2 Walk-thru - History
(4 Min) Example 3 Walk-thru - Career and Technical Education
(4 Min) Example 4 Walk-thru - Science (Process/ share idea on Padlet)
(5 Min) Q & A and Closing
Supporting research
Valenza, J. (2019, May 4). Building beautiful book bentos. School Library Journal. https://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2019/05/04/building-beautiful-book-bentos/
K20 Center University of Oklahoma (n.d.). Bento Box Instructional Strategy Card. Learn K20 - Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning. Retrieved September 25, 2023, from https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/1128rev=19426
Bales, J. & Saint-John, L. (2020). ‘Book bento boxes: Creative reading
response’, Scan, 39(3).
Kloss, K. Book bento is every bookworm's dream come true. (2016, May 2). [Elle Decor–blog].
Highfill, L. Replying to @MrsReberger. (2018, April 10). Here is my #BookBento HyperDoc [Tweet]. https://x.com/lhighfill/status/983898753059799041?s=20
Session specifications
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Analyst
- Provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate competency and reflect on their learning using technology.
Knowledge Constructor
- Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
- Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.