So exciting to be here with Herman presenting.
Today we're looking at Genius Hour.
In order:
We looked at Genius Hour and how a lot of Google products were originally part of their 20% time.
How this can apply to students in our schools?
Empowerment, passion, engagement.
Process - exciting and chaotic start, refining the process in later years.
Refining the planning
Using Blogs to plan
Using Google Slides and videos as reflection
Follow on - learning is catching - one student with a mum into pallet couches brought the idea to school and all students building on each other's learning.
Students negotiating timetables in order to maximise their Genius Hour time
"Demonstrates effort, learning and a mastery of skills" - video on slide 9
Video talks about:
Weekly Question problem
Whole Term Project - like a passion project - music etc
Group Projects - collaboration (arguing why a project is a good idea etc)
Following this, we looked at the making Open and Closed questions in order to develop our questioning process and developing great questions.
Doc with questions here
Excellent and relevant presentation - seriously inspiring! Google 4E for life!
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Wednesday, 8 July 2015
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Kimberly Hall - Improve Reading and Writing with Google
Kimberly Hall
Presentation is here:
https://docs.google.com/a/gisint.school.nz/presentation/d/1liyFpDw2kaGPqxVoQ8EGKY1fGDe91o6az3lJ2llVN44/edit#slide=id.g4782119f0_20
Using a table to get planning happening quickly without the issues
Change names to Heading1
Then
Insert
Table of Contents
Could use this for dates and headings etc in a personal doc,
Then you can click on these in order to hyperlink quickly to this area. Great for feeding back to students quickly.
Google channel - watch cool Google clips here
Every time the kids add a new piece of writing they can add it to the same doc and every time they write they give it a heading "Descriptive Writing task 08/04/15"
Click Heading 1
then it will take you straight to that piece of writing.
Using
'mention comments'
+your.name@helpeachother.com
"This idea is similar to yours - maybe you should collaborate"
Lots of tools I've used before:
Sharing
Commenting
Suggesting edits
Revision history
Draftback
Awesome to play back for students to see history though - encouraging recrafting :)
Could we use a doc and for example - use adjectives to describe (colour code) then that will help kids to see what an adjective is and how to use more of them in their writing etc.
Collecting highlights using Google Read and Write - takes highlights in a similar colour and puts them in a new document - this would be a cool way to attempt to get as many new adjectives as possible without doubling up etc.
Using Kaizena for feedback - does this help reach more students by allowing them to access feedback regardless of reading ability?
Also, providing personalised touch to feedback in order to prevent that relationship level from being lost?
Accessing the Kaizena blog here may give extra ideas
Rubric criteria on Kaizena - click here
Use Clearly or Readability to clear up webpages so they're not so cluttered. Allows saving or printing without the clutter.
Loads of cool ideas - extensions etc. Looking forward to seeing now how I can implement these in order to best present ways for people to maximise their use of these and find shifts in pedagogy through my presentation at Tairawhite TeachXpo - hopefully!
How to make the whole process convincing and attainable and interactive?
Lots of fun to be had!
Presentation is here:
https://docs.google.com/a/gisint.school.nz/presentation/d/1liyFpDw2kaGPqxVoQ8EGKY1fGDe91o6az3lJ2llVN44/edit#slide=id.g4782119f0_20
Using a table to get planning happening quickly without the issues
Change names to Heading1
Then
Insert
Table of Contents
Could use this for dates and headings etc in a personal doc,
Then you can click on these in order to hyperlink quickly to this area. Great for feeding back to students quickly.
Google channel - watch cool Google clips here
Every time the kids add a new piece of writing they can add it to the same doc and every time they write they give it a heading "Descriptive Writing task 08/04/15"
Click Heading 1
then it will take you straight to that piece of writing.
Using
'mention comments'
+your.name@helpeachother.com
"This idea is similar to yours - maybe you should collaborate"
Lots of tools I've used before:
Sharing
Commenting
Suggesting edits
Revision history
Draftback
Awesome to play back for students to see history though - encouraging recrafting :)
Could we use a doc and for example - use adjectives to describe (colour code) then that will help kids to see what an adjective is and how to use more of them in their writing etc.
Collecting highlights using Google Read and Write - takes highlights in a similar colour and puts them in a new document - this would be a cool way to attempt to get as many new adjectives as possible without doubling up etc.
Using Kaizena for feedback - does this help reach more students by allowing them to access feedback regardless of reading ability?
Also, providing personalised touch to feedback in order to prevent that relationship level from being lost?
Accessing the Kaizena blog here may give extra ideas
Rubric criteria on Kaizena - click here
Use Clearly or Readability to clear up webpages so they're not so cluttered. Allows saving or printing without the clutter.
Loads of cool ideas - extensions etc. Looking forward to seeing now how I can implement these in order to best present ways for people to maximise their use of these and find shifts in pedagogy through my presentation at Tairawhite TeachXpo - hopefully!
How to make the whole process convincing and attainable and interactive?
Lots of fun to be had!
Monday, 23 March 2015
Digital Learning Communities
I really wanted to call this post 'brain explosions' as I really feel as though what's in my head is overflowing tonight. I'm really learning this year.
I'm sure I learn every year, but in my role as co-leader of e-learning as well as facilitator of learning in our classroom (with an e-learning emphasis) I've been thrown:
* into the Pit
* onto the silly bridge
* out of my comfort zone
However you want to put it - I'm a learner again in the true sense of the word and it's exciting to be undertaking this journey alongside my students. We are redesigning learning; together, and as a team. Co-constructing, it seems.
Today, Saunil Hagler (iseeteaching.com) from Cyclone came to Gisborne to work with us on the next step in our e-learning journey. (The whole idea of e-learning journey is an interesting one really - as many of us feel that the technologies we're using are simply tools for learning - there is no e-learning anymore, just learning). We defined, we critically analysed, we discussed, we theorized, we idealised, threw aspirations around and developed and refined plans. It's an exciting journey.
By the end of the day I'd learned everything from how to fix my GMail problem to how to shut all tabs to the right on my busy browser, to how to create links to learning to autonomise learning for our students in a digital learning community. Never, have I been part of such a huge paradigm shift in education that has taken place over such a short space of time. True, my "e-learning journey" began last year, but the bulk of my shifts in practice and pedagogy have taken place in the few short weeks since the beginning of term one. Seven weeks. The critical thinking I'm engaging in, the designing I'm doing and the collaboration and reflection in effect throughout this process is phenomenal. I've never been more excited about my role in our classroom, in education in general.
Daily, life is chaotic, blurry and overflowing with learning. Daily, I have to mentally 'shut tabs' in my head that force my brain to work overtime. Daily, I am invigorated by the learning that I am doing. I'm so encouraged by that, because I know that in order to be enthusiastic about learning, my students need to see I'm enthusiastic in my role as facilitator of that learning.
Saunil was knowledgeable, a patient teacher and an engaging facilitator. We began the skeleton of our learning community. As a staff and for our students, this platform could open up learning to all of us. How effective would that be in terms of shifts in our practices as both teachers and learners. Giving the steering wheel back to our students means they will regain autonomy in their learning. It's scary to let go of that wheel for some of us.... but I'm excited about the journey - where will our students' learning journeys take us? I can't wait!
I'm sure I learn every year, but in my role as co-leader of e-learning as well as facilitator of learning in our classroom (with an e-learning emphasis) I've been thrown:
* into the Pit
* onto the silly bridge
* out of my comfort zone
However you want to put it - I'm a learner again in the true sense of the word and it's exciting to be undertaking this journey alongside my students. We are redesigning learning; together, and as a team. Co-constructing, it seems.
Today, Saunil Hagler (iseeteaching.com) from Cyclone came to Gisborne to work with us on the next step in our e-learning journey. (The whole idea of e-learning journey is an interesting one really - as many of us feel that the technologies we're using are simply tools for learning - there is no e-learning anymore, just learning). We defined, we critically analysed, we discussed, we theorized, we idealised, threw aspirations around and developed and refined plans. It's an exciting journey.
By the end of the day I'd learned everything from how to fix my GMail problem to how to shut all tabs to the right on my busy browser, to how to create links to learning to autonomise learning for our students in a digital learning community. Never, have I been part of such a huge paradigm shift in education that has taken place over such a short space of time. True, my "e-learning journey" began last year, but the bulk of my shifts in practice and pedagogy have taken place in the few short weeks since the beginning of term one. Seven weeks. The critical thinking I'm engaging in, the designing I'm doing and the collaboration and reflection in effect throughout this process is phenomenal. I've never been more excited about my role in our classroom, in education in general.
Daily, life is chaotic, blurry and overflowing with learning. Daily, I have to mentally 'shut tabs' in my head that force my brain to work overtime. Daily, I am invigorated by the learning that I am doing. I'm so encouraged by that, because I know that in order to be enthusiastic about learning, my students need to see I'm enthusiastic in my role as facilitator of that learning.
Saunil was knowledgeable, a patient teacher and an engaging facilitator. We began the skeleton of our learning community. As a staff and for our students, this platform could open up learning to all of us. How effective would that be in terms of shifts in our practices as both teachers and learners. Giving the steering wheel back to our students means they will regain autonomy in their learning. It's scary to let go of that wheel for some of us.... but I'm excited about the journey - where will our students' learning journeys take us? I can't wait!
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