Instead of worksheets...
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What is a worksheet…
How can we encourage our learners to be creators rather than consumers…
The Why to shift away from worksheets
Attributed to -JENNIFER GONZALEZ https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/busysheets/
What to do instead?
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/busysheets/
Junior School
Solo Taxonomy - Higher Order Thinking
Building Key Competencies and school values
Here teachers designed a variety of tasks that linked to the key competencies and school values to current events at the school.
Flipped Learning
TKI have a page dedicated to Flipped Learning. They explain it where “In a flipped learning setting, teachers make lessons available to students to be accessed whenever and wherever it is convenient for the student, at home, in class, on the bus, or even from a hospital bed. Teachers can deliver this instruction by recording and narrating screencasts of work they do on their computers, creating videos of themselves teaching, or curating video lessons from trusted Internet sites.”
Could you create a range of lessons/tasks that students could access to learn new strategies?
A good starting point could be maths or writing? And what are a range of ways to communicate to them to enhance engagement for all learners?e .g., video, podcast, narrated PowerPoint, text, animation, simulation, online multimedia module?
Using UDL - Universal Design for Learning
Attributed to Chrissie Butler | Inclusive Education | Universal Design for Learning
Image the creation of Dr. Ruben Puentedura, Ph.D. http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/
SAMR is more like a swimming pool than a ladder
Seesaw or Blog
Share your learning with your whānau.
Take a photo of your learning - what successes or challenges did you have? Why? What would you do differently next time?
Digital Storytelling
Through digital storytelling students can record their learning and thinking processes using digital storytelling. Stories can be viewed, saved and shared with whānau.
Maths - Jo Boaler; Youcubed.org
Math - Ordering Numbers
Students find numbers within their learning environment, take a photo of individual numbers, then place them in the correct order.
Learning can then be shared via the preferred platform eg: Blogger, Seesaw.
Hands on Learning
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Learners explore literacy and numeracy through hands on activities while continuing to develop oral language and fine motor skills. �Evidence of learning can be recorded through learning stories or photos.
Must do activities first, followed by Action Stations sign up.
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Avonhead School
Add photo to Action Station. Number in corner shows maximum number of students.
Avonhead School
Middle School
I love the ideas in this blog post about developing noticing and wonder with learners. Some really practical, simple strategies.
Check out these Maker Challenges from John Spencer!
Why not get “hands on” with some creating and making?
What is PBL - project based learning?
A great resource is ANYTHING from Buck Institute of Education - ideas, philosophy, blogs, assessing techniques, rubrics, videos.....
Maker Education Card Game (Jackie Gerstein
Make up sets of cards:
Students select one from each set (could be adapted for DTHM)
A school example: Creating a school wide Comic Con
© DC Comics
Key questions to ask your learners (of any age!)
Ako/Learning Choice Boards
Link to Kasey Bell’s explanation (from her ‘Shake Up Learning’ website) - provides for student choice (and voice if they generate some themselves)
You decide how many squares in total and how many squares students can choose to do.
Example here from pg 14 NZYF Yr 7-8 science unit of work - Bigger and Better - students select 6-8 - more like inquiry starters (depends of teachers knowledge of class)(Te Reo version also available from NZYF website - all resources are free, you just have to register)
Lots of other examples - often called learning tic-tac-toe boards
Story Telling
How to be more creative in what is written or video’d:
Senior School