http://storyofmovies.org/common/11041/default.cfm?clientID=11041
A great website to use as a resoure whereby kids can read books and then watch mov

Yong Zhao

Feel free to make a comment on one of these statements

1.    Why do we use technology?

2.    Are we asking ourselves… what is the goal? Where do we want to go?

3.    What defines a “good education”?

4.    We “believe” that what we are teaching is important.  Perhaps we are gambling on the idea that our outcomes are useful for students in the future.

5.    Schools are designed to suppress creativity.

6.    We need to produce people with an autonomous set of skills

7.    Technology has replaced the need for homogonised students

8.    We have come to an age where previously useless people are becoming useful. What does that mean for teaching?

Guess who's on twitter now!!!

SOLE: Self-Organised Learning Environments.

·      For the teacher: choose a topic – pose a question that allows students to delve deeper into the topic. Build a story to facilitate a question

TOPIC

·      Earth and its surroundings.

QUESTION

·      Can the sun is fail us…?  What would you do to prepare for this event?

·      “It’s a Saturday morning… you’ve just woken up and it’s dark outside. What will you do to prepare for life without a sun?”

·      Make your question more literal i.e.

·      Would a heater be better than a jacket?

 

ASSESSMENT

 

·      Group presentation

·      Apply knowledge

·      Peer assessment

·      Do our students understand that Google provides answers to questions but not solutions to problems?

·      Calibrate the level of assessment based on the learner’s own level of expectations (this becomes an assessment tool).

·      Students can develop their own criteria by which they are assessed i.e. students can write a question about the topic that they know the answer to. Teachers can collate these questions and have the author of each question mark student responses.

PONDER

If we were given unlimited resources, time and an internet connection. Could we without an engineer, develop the skills to build a sound bridge?

Is our job as teachers to be engineering experts and teach students how to build that bridge

OR

Is it our job to develop the metacognitive skills to enable students to successfully teach themselves to build the bridge?

Teacher from Fairvale took everyone through the process of creating a weebly account and the types of things that you can do with it. The best thing about the session was the fact that we had the time to actually play around with the technology. I set up a basic Fairfield West ICT site, with pages set up for Kindy through to Year 6. I will work on it more and look to see how I could go about implementing it at school. More to come!
Dave