Kia ora. This week’s post outlines some of the exciting updates to Google Classroom and how you can use Google Classroom to differentiate student learning. Tech Tuesday this week will have a Google Classroom focus so if you are new to Google Classroom come along and I will go over how to get started – … More Google Classroom and Differentiation
Core Education identified Digital Fluency as one of the Top Ten Trends in Education for 2016 and the Ministry of Education has identified it as one of the priority areas for professional learning. So what is Digital Fluency? “Digital fluency is a disposition – A digitally fluent person can decide when to use specific digital technologies … More Brain Food Fridays: Digital Fluency
Today’s blog post comes from Bex Williams. The Singularity University asked some of the teenagers who attended the Exponential Youth Camp (XYC) how they would design the future of education. They came up with six key areas: Make it about ME – personalise the learning Lets DO things – project based and hands-on learning Don’t … More Brain Food Fridays: 6 tips for the Future of Education
This week’s blog post was inspired by an RNZ National Insight documentary on “The Future of Work” The documentary asks what will the future be like for today’s students and is education providing the skills that they will need for a future we can’t quite imagine. Professor Robert Reich from the University of Berkeley talks … More Brain Food Fridays: The Future of Work
This blog post is written by the Student Agency group: Karla, Cassie, Catherine, Haydee and Ed What is Student Agency? That is the question we have been investigating over the last 5 months. We started out alongside every other school in the cluster asking the same question. We have made significant progress since, and come … More Student Agency
NZCER have recently published a report on the Sport in Education Initiative. This programme started in 2013 and focuses on how to use sport as a context for teaching and learning with the aim of improving academic, social and sporting outcomes. Eight schools across New Zealand were chosen to be part of the project. Teachers … More Brain Food Fridays: Sport in Education Initiative
Here are a couple of blog posts on student centred learning which is the focus of many of the inquiries this term. Mikel found this first post: Using Technology to create student centred learning environment A recent post from @EduWells: Does your classroom put the cart before the horse? If as you carry out the … More Brain Food Fridays: Student Centred Learning
To support the next stage in the Teaching as Inquiry Cycle here are some links to a couple of research articles on future oriented learning. The Nature of Learning The OECD project – Innovative Learning Environments put together a publication, The Nature of Learning based on research on different aspects of learning. Here is a … More Brain Food Fridays: Future Oriented Learning
This post gives you links to possible digital tools and strategies you could use to support your inquiry. The Padagogy Wheel The Padagogy Wheel combines Blooms Taxonomy, The SAMR model and Digital Technology. If you click on the link below it will take you to a PDF that has active links . Link to The … More Digital Learning Resources to support your Teaching as Inquiry Project
Gathering student feedback is a useful way for students, particularly the quieter ones, to let you know what they think about your class and give you suggestions for change. Doing this using a paper form means photocopying a class set, having them fill it out at the end of a class, and then manually analysing … More Student Feedback with Google Forms
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