Tag: persistence
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 […]
Perseverence and Persistence
I have had this post in a half written form for some time now ever since in fact I read this quote. The ability to focus on the boring as well as the fun is more important than intelligence for a child to do well. Yesterday I was glancing through the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper […]
Persistance
I watched a really interesting documentary this week, ‘Life at Five’. which followed on from ‘Life at Three’ and ‘Life at One’. Incidentally I watched it on our i-pad using the ABC iview app and the program is still available if you are interested. Five years ago eleven Australian children were handpicked to follow on […]
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 […]