Thursday, 10 September 2015

Week 9

Cultural Intelligence
CQ quiz 

PISA survey.  Held 3 weeks ago. YouTube clip 
Education tri annual conference
PROG for international student assessment. All to to with OECD. 15 years olds only
Experts create a 2 hour test using core subjects. Focus is rotated through core subjects
Designed to find out if what the students are learning is useful in real life. Can they use the reading skills they learnt at school to gather information from other situations.
Shows countries where they stand compared to rest of world  similarities and differences around world.     Helps tracking of progress and catalyst for change of benchmarks
Juse Barback quote

Kahoot online game
Excellent pre and post assessment tool.  Like this
Set up account in kahoot.com and play with pin code on kahoot.it
Some multichoice .'s have all answers correct. My oh score points as u go. Need to be speedy with answers
Be good to do presentation on this in staff meet using recent pd or school policy ...





Thursday, 27 August 2015

Week 7. blended learning

DCL in context  with Chris Clay
Blended learning
Edutopia vid of Salman Khan talking about continuum. Rote at one end and creativity at the other
It's not just about flipping the classroom
Refer to marla's blog for a LOT  more detail

Station rotations/ bus stops/ lab rotation - devices are stored.
Flipping the class = teacher records lesson then has opportunity to interact with the groups/ Individuals
Pinterest has LOTs of graphics on blended learning and flipped classroom
Individual rotation
Enriched virtual model
Face to face to get to know each other then online

Tool to check out.  Blendspace  / Zaption / Ed puzzle. Mindmup. Brainstorming tool   Padlet. Titanpad.com 

Sunday, 9 August 2015

Marla's blog

click here to see Marla's Fantastic blog

Marla has some FANTASTIC notes from our AR = Augmented Reality session last week
link is attached to view

Thanks for sharing Marla

Saturday, 8 August 2015

Ako Hiko Learn Create Share in Planning

Learn Create Share in Planning.  Click here for the link
This is the thought provoking presentation by James Hopkins from Ako Hiko last Wednesday at New Windsor School.

ICT Survey for Parent Teacher Student conferences next week

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Makeymakey session at the mindlab

Really enjoyed this session. So much so I have ordered my own Makeymakey via aliexpress can't wait for my class to have a go.