Friday, September 27, 2013

Student Agency

This seems to be coming up all the time and I have been wondering how it differs from student centred learning. I happened upon Nick Rate's blog where he looks at various viewpoints on this concept including Brian Annan's presentation (Which I recently heard at the Leadership Symposium at Botany Downs Secondary School run by out Cognition team) 
Nick sum's it up as "enabling, empowering, self-monitoring, goals, feedback, meta-cognition, active, responsive, self-directed and meaningful." pedagogy.
See his blog post on this here.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Learning in a Networked World - Presentation by Derek Wenmoth


I read this on Derek's blog and thought it was so good it needs to be shared!

I-pad apps to support literacy

One of the schools I work with is conducting an inquiry into the use of i-pads to support literacy in the junior classroom. We have been using a range of content creation apps such as Puppet Pals, Educreations, Show Me, Sock Puppets, My Story, Book Creator, I-movie and Tellagami. Most are the free versions.
One success we have had is around the use of Tellagami where the students create an avatar to tell a learning story. They write the dialogue for the avatar or record their own voice. The students have been very excited about this.


Thursday, September 5, 2013

Mix and Mash competition

This is a great way for your students to share their know how about e-learning and create great content at the same time. Closing date for submission is Nov 8th and the theme is - Future.