Category Archives: PYP

DIGITAL LEARNING DAY CHALLENGE: How are you changing your teaching and learning?

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Digital Learning Day is coming soon- 6th February 2013.

See the Digital learning facebook page.

Digital learning is also known as e-learning. One example of e-learning is flipped classrooms. This can take a variety of formats. Please ask me if you would like support with this.

Currently, I am a participant in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)   E-Learning and Digital Culture. It is a coursera course – online courses run by various  universities around the world (and it is free!).

This is the twitter feed.

ARE YOU GOING TO  TAKE THE E-LEARNING CHALLENGE?

Great reading: Flip your classroom 

See the website below for some resources to help you. “The Alliance develops toolkits to provide digital learning resources and ideas for teachers in specific subject areas. The tools and resources in these toolkits are not the totality of good information available; instead, they are designed to provide guidance on how technology and digital learning can enhance the educational experience and outcomes for all students. We continue to add to this collection and welcome any ideas, tools, models, or resources. Learn & Explore with these incredible toolkits!”

Source http://www.digitallearningday.org/take-action/ Other resources

See more about flipping the classroom at

Techsmith flipped classroom

Another valuable resource for Australian educators is The National Digital Learning Resources Network (Education Services Australia) http://www.ndlrn.edu.au/default.asp

Take the challenge, improve your learning, reach your students and have FUN!

SEARCH with QR codes – WELCOME TO 2013 JS LIBRARY!

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WELCOME TO 2013 – SEARCH -ASK – LEARN -CONNECT

BEGINNINGS … We SEARCH…

Source
The Daring Librarian
http://www.flickr.com/photos/info_grrl/7125917627/

This year for my orientation to use of the PYP  library we are going to use some QR codes. I will have a scavenger hunt for students to orientate themselves but I am also looking for some higher order and creative thinking to be employed.

We will look at what a contemporary library is using the Y chart as a stimulus (looks like, sounds like, feels like) and consider how this is different from the library of the past using the PYP ATTITUDES and PYP LEARNER PROFILE as support materials.

Teachers and students will have a chance to look at the PYP  library using the QR CODE.

See the following links for more information.

http://jssalclibrary.wikispaces.com/HOW+TO+USE+THE+LIBRARY

http://www.diigo.com/user/jssalc/QR_codes

http://jssalc.wikispaces.com/Augmented+Reality

See the link below for a great example of QR codes being used in a Specialist class (PE).

http://www.thephysicaleducator.com/resources/skill-posters/

 

Finally, this glogster is an excellent introduction to QR codes in education.

 

Enjoy!

Year 3 and Specialist

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The Year 3 students had a combined session with their Specialist teachers this week.

What have Year 3 been learning?

The  Year 3students have been learning  How the world works.  They have been expresing the emotions of fishermen working on their boats.  The dance goes with the soran bushi song to depict hauling nets, throwing baskets of fish over their shoulders and putting nets out.

This Sorin Bushi dance can be viewed on YouTube on morocojin’s Channel.

 

Year 3 and Specialists on PhotoPeach

The story of Cinderella – perspective

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Consider the story of Cinderella. Add some interactive-ness, then put on DeBono’s thinking hats and you will have a recipe for expressing ourselves from the perspective of Year 1.

This is the interactive version the story of Cinderella we used to set the scene.

These are some shots of us working, thinking and collaborating.

Yr 1 Express Ourselves – Cinderella on PhotoPeach

Schools Thinking Differently

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Most of us probably think of a school as having four walls, desks and chairs.

These schools think differently about education.

GREEN SCHOOL (from TED talks)

FLOATING SCHOOLS

Floating school Bangladesh

 

 FOREST SCHOOLS

England

READ MORE AT

http://www.forestschool.org/

 

What are your thoughts about the different types of schools and how they learn?

What you change at your school?

Change the world -Taking Action

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Let’s Take Action


Click on the link to view the poster – change_the_world.

“Learn about the Change the World charity campaign and get involved. Remember that small change adds up and that you can make a difference!”

Source
http://www.youtube.com/user/eduTecherChange

All you need to do is ‘click on the penny and one penny will be donated by edutecher.
Watch the video to see how this works in reality.

 

Change the World

#ebshare

Connecting the dots…and the Global Education Conference

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The prezi below is a fantastic resource for teachers of art. It is one of the presentations at the upcoming Global Education Conference (see Bright Ideas blog post). If you are looking at connecting globally with your students or wanting to explore and expand your PLN this is the conference for you.

Connecting the Dots… on Prezi

JSSALCLibrary wiki

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JSSALCLibrary wiki

I have been updating the JSSALCLibrary wiki page! It now contains pages for the PYP and the Teacher Librarian, The Learner Profile and Attitudes and Taking Action.

This will be a resource that will hopefully be of value to teachers and will be contantly added to. Please let me know if you have resources that you would like to add.

JSSALCLibrary wiki