Tag: learning
Learning through drama
My year six students have been working hard this term to complete a number of in class ‘real’ projects. By ‘real’ I mean that we have tried as far as possible to reach our needed outcomes with tasks that have meaning and relevance for them. The first of these projects, fractured fairytale plays came to […]
Adobe Education Leader
I received a surprise email in the last school holidays, inviting me to join the Adobe Education Leadership program. Even though I have a working knowledge of many of the suite of Adobe programs I am by no means an expert in any of them. I emailed quickly back again, admitting my lack of knowledge […]
Learning through Play
I was on playground duty yesterday in the infants area, watching the smallest students play together. Learning as they did through negotiation, imagination and physical fun. While I was there I watched a small group of year one students plan, devise, create, test and modify a game. No doubt inspired by the Olympics, the game involved jumping from a […]
Meddling in the middle
Don’t be a sage on the stage be a meddler in the middle of your classroom You know how sometimes you sit and listen to speakers and your eyes glaze over and you start to daydream or worse struggle to stay awake? Well I have just been in a staff PD session run by Erica […]
Excitement in the classroom
All teachers plan and program to the best of their abilities. They try to prepare engaging and exciting lessons and to plan interesting learning opportunities. After all engaged and interested students come to school happy, are eager to learn and cause few discipline problems. Sometimes though it is the extra things, the unplanned for opportunities […]
Adobe Generation- Digital Creativity in the Classroom
I am taking part in an online learning course during the next few weeks. Tilted Digital Creativity in the Classroom. It is an Adobe education course designed for educators as an introduction to the basics of digital media production. It promises to have an emphasis on classroom craft, as well as the core principles of […]