20% Project Blog Post 1

Have you ever been scrolling through Pinterest and thought to yourself, “I wonder if that really works?” Well I am here to let you know!! In my EDIT 2000 class here at UGA, we have been assigned a 20% Project. We were given free rein to choose our own topic and will be working on this project throughout the semester, giving it ‘20% of our time’. For my 20% Project, I am going to be recreating four ‘Pinterest-Inspired’ educational games or activities to see if they could be beneficial for teachers to implement in their classrooms. I am going to consider things such as difficulty level, time required for completion, set up/clean-up process, what learning styles it targets, and if students could learn something educational from it. I believe that it is super important for teachers to apply varied methods of teaching in their classrooms.

I am an intended Communication Sciences and Disorders major with hopes of becoming a Speech Pathologist one day and have a very special place in my heart for students with special needs. I have seen firsthand how children can be ridiculed and made fun of for certain disabilities or daily challenges they may have to face. One of the hardest challenges I have seen kids face is not being able to speak clearly, unable to express themselves. Finding creative, new ways to increase learning and development in the classroom is so important, and not just for special needs students. All students have their own unique way of learning and teachers need to be aware of this.

Often teachers will turn to Pinterest to find exciting and innovative activities to implement in their classroom but run into challenges such as not having the right supplies, not knowing the appropriate age group for the activity, or being unaware of the educational value of the activity. Through this project, I hope I am able to provide evaluations of a few fun activities I discover on Pinterest! I hope you follow along!