New Learning – Week Eight

Five photographs placemat Activity

 Please find attached the give photographs placemat activity.

The PDF document which addresses the questions can be found through the following link: Five photographs – Placemat Activity it can also be found on my  moodle blog.

 

I found it quite easy to complete this activity.

 

I enjoy procrastination and this was a good way to do that. I love looking a pictures and picking colours (doing all the important things)

I am lucky enough to use the learning by design process everyday. There isn’t a unit in the year ten English curriculum that hasn’t been written into an LbD.

So when it came to placing the learning strategies and pictures in the placemat the information was already there.

Experiencing the know

The students in the picture are completing a placemat. I believe that a placemat combines both accountability and cooperative work. I like to use a placemat to gather information on certain subjects.

Conceptualising by naming

The students are working in pairs to solve a puzzle. There is a lot of positive questioning and positive reinforcements. This is an activity we use to look at inference and narratives. I allowed students to work in medium groups (of no more than 3) and pairs. This allowed more accountability. Both students had to agree on the placement of the puzzle if either disagreed they had to keep going.

 

Analysing functionally

The students in this picture are ‘doing’ cooperative reading. Students read a text (this can be a novel or an informative text) and using their role they look deep into the text and ask questions using the four roles, codebreaker, text analyst, text participant and text user. The students do this every year and each year they reach a higher level of thinking and raiser questions and theories that they might not have done if they had just ‘read’ the book.

Applying appropriately

The is the students as the teacher, the student is giving a ten minute seminar on something (in this case nuclear weapons) that has changed the world. The students use evidence through images, statistics and videos to demonstrate how it has changed the world. The seminars vary from excellent to okay(ish). Many students who do not do well reflect in their journals truthfully on why it didn’t go well. The reasons that come out are didn’t prepare, was too nervous, didn’t have enough information etc. I teach 4 year ten classes. All but one student completed their seminar.

 

Applying appropriately

This picture shows the students responding to the seminars. They are teaching and questioning each other. The students this year have been very polite and positive. They have listened respectfully and responded thoughtfully through the question and answer session.

 

Digital Stories – Placemat Activity

 

The second activity for week 8 was to write and co-author a placemat. I worked with Adam. Please find attached my digital stories learning element. The placemat can also be found in the week 8 discussion board on moodle

Digital Stories Placemat

Enjoy!

Thanks,

Prue