Archive for the 'Primary Education' Category
Question – What uses Twitter, google Earth and Google Docs?
Answer: A 21st Century primary school class.
From the ‘ICT in my Classroom’ blog (Web Link).
Another example of early school use of technology to enhance their learning. In this examples it’s science – specifically looking at how day length varies across the UK and the differences around the world.
Google Earth was used to illustrate the movement [...]
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Anyone know what’s happening here?
What’s the SMARTBoard showing?
It’s Wii Golf – a game!
From the ‘ICT in my Classroom’ blog. Tom Barrett has installed and setup a Nintendo Wii in his classroom for Year 5 and 6 students (that’s primary school folks). He intends, naturally, to use the games for learning particularly the Wii Sports game for teaching math [...]
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If I were president
Via Vicki Davis’s blog a nice little video of primary school children engaging in an exercise in which they have the opportunity to be creative and, as Vicki observes, “envision themselves as making a difference”.
Download Video: Posted by cshively at TeacherTube.com.
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A powerful idea about teaching ideas
Well I have a bad case of blogging guilt at the moment. Basically I’ve been busy working through ePortfolio resources as part of an upcoming StudyNet project and while I’m not working on that I’ve been co writing a paper on the future of MLEs, (plus I’ve been to Crufts).I’ve got a few things to [...]
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Class Scribing Rules
Really one for the Primary Eds here. Scribing is a process by which class activity is recorded by a student in terms of the topics covered, resources found, group judgments and arguments etc. The summary is recorded somewhere, more recently as a post within a class blog or within the class wiki. This happens on [...]
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Wikis and Blogs Rules Ok
I’m currently trawling through a number of educational wiki sites (supplied to me by Marija Cubric) at Examples of Educational Wikis (Web Link).
So over the next few days I’ll be posting some examples here.
First off is a set of wiki rules which I found at this school wiki (Mr. Armstrong’s U.S. History Wiki, click here).
The [...]
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How to fold a T-Shirt in 2 Seconds
Mainly for Primary eds this one but worth a look if you’re interested in education full stop. Tom Barrett recently posted about an exercise in instructional writing in which he involves his students in reading and evaluating instructional text.
One set of instructions consisted of a single paragraph with no numbers of bullets. The second was [...]
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Release the Hounds
A great presentation by Chris Harbeck (blog) at the K12 Conference.
He divides the presentation into 4 learning journeys involving blogging, e-portfolios and unprojects.
Scribe posting – a ‘scribe’ in blogging terms is where a student volunteer records and summarises the class activity. The summary is placed on the class blog or wiki with the intention that [...]
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20 Project Ideas Inspired by Learning 2.0
This is a great list of activities enabled by web 2.0 technologies. They mainly relate to the K12 sector (primary and secondary school level in UK) but some of the activities could be extrapolated into equivalents for HE. Each activity is backed up by existing and related examples. Well worth a look and exploring. There’s [...]
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Is text-only enough for today’s students?
An interesting post by Vicki A. Davis on the Cool Cat Teacher Blog.
Basically, in terms of teaching students how to tell stories she asks if text is enough.
“So, I ask, is text enough? I believe we should encourage students to select the best mode of communicating their topic. And that students should be familiar with [...]
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