This afternoon, 9E will conduct the first test of their games. To say I am nervous about this is an understatement. There are eight groups, all of them with widely varied games and at immensely different stages of development. Today they will do a test play so that they can learn what the strengths of their games are, as well as the weaknesses of their games.
We watched “Caine’s Arcade” last week, and some of the students were teary as they viewed the unfolding story.
As a teacher, it feels like such a stretch to give up this much control of my class. I feel like I have students everywhere, and I am in a position to “trust” that learning is taking place. The differentiation is inherent as we progress through this project, but the feeling of being in control of the learning, the pace and the assessment is all gone. At least in this moment, it is absent.