In a traditional classroom teachers tend to talk a lot. In an e-Learning classroom there should be less 'teacher talk' and more 'student talk'. Here is an example
Scenario One: Science Investigation (Traditional approach)
Children are sitting on the mat in front of the teacher. Teacher has a sheet of newsprint pegged to the white board with the 'Purpose' of their science investigation written on it. Teacher asks students 'What are the keywords?' A couple of kids will raise their hands and answer. As they find a keyword, teacher asks them what it means and adds that in brackets above the keyword in question. Teacher repeats last step many times.
Then teacher has students turn to TV set and they watch the first part of a youtube video, teacher asks the question 'What is the independent variable?' A couple of students try to answer and more discussion goes on, toing and froing between those students. The rest are by now quite restless and squirming. This last step is repeated twice more. 40 minutes has gone by and only 50% of the class has truly been involved.
Scenario Two: Science Investigation (e-Learning approach)
Children are organised into groups (3-4 in a group). One member of the group will open the shared presentation.
They work through the following presentation with the teacher moving around working with individual groups. After 45 minutes, the groups all meet together and share their findings.
The activity provides a similar result to the traditional method but it is a lot more interesting for the children and allows more students to have a voice in answering the questions. The Youtube movie can be wound back and forward when needed and the teacher has time to spend with those students who need the extra help.
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Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Sunday, 11 August 2013
Friday, 13 August 2010
Space Technology Unit
The latest technology unit I have written is on Space. The focus of the unit is to understand that several models need to be made and tested before a prototype can be created.
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The Juniors are going to be making Origami spaceships and the Seniors will be creating spaceships according to their own specifications.
The Seniors will be looking at Richard Bransons 'Spaceship Two'
The seniors also have a PowerPoint with links to the websites and movies that will help them with their tasks.
The assessment for the Seniors is to itemise the steps that it has taken to get to the final design of Spaceship Two.
As an Extra...
These students worked on the Volcano eruptions last term so suggesting that they animate the orbiting of planets around the sun was not a difficult task for them to achieve. They were able to apply the same techniques they used with animating 'Erupting Volcanoes'.
Which of course lead to them wanting to animate spaceships.
Students can create their own 'Spaceships/Rockets' in Paint or Artrage. These are then animated in PowerPoint or Keynote.
We used Artrage to create backgrounds.
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The Juniors are going to be making Origami spaceships and the Seniors will be creating spaceships according to their own specifications.
The Seniors will be looking at Richard Bransons 'Spaceship Two'
The seniors also have a PowerPoint with links to the websites and movies that will help them with their tasks.
The assessment for the Seniors is to itemise the steps that it has taken to get to the final design of Spaceship Two.
As an Extra...
These students worked on the Volcano eruptions last term so suggesting that they animate the orbiting of planets around the sun was not a difficult task for them to achieve. They were able to apply the same techniques they used with animating 'Erupting Volcanoes'.
Which of course lead to them wanting to animate spaceships.
Students can create their own 'Spaceships/Rockets' in Paint or Artrage. These are then animated in PowerPoint or Keynote.We used Artrage to create backgrounds.
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Volcanoes, computers, animations - Authentic Context
One of my schools are studying Volcanoes at the moment, and as we live in the city of Volcanoes (Auckland), this was a great opportunity to link our learning to an authentic context.
ICT component: View this slideshow, click on the links and follow the instructions on the slide.
Work through the PowerPoint file 'Making a Volcano'
Once all of the students have made the animation, share them with the class and talk about if the animations are in the right order. Revisit Volcano Explorer and look at all of the different volcanoes and identify the different ways the volcanoes erupt.
Ask the students can they identify what type of volcano they have, and if the order of eruption correct. If not then they can work on their volcanoes to make the necessary adjustments.
Further Activities:
ICT component: View this slideshow, click on the links and follow the instructions on the slide.
Work through the PowerPoint file 'Making a Volcano'
- watch the animation on how a volcano erupts
- Look at the Shake, Rattle and Roll site, take notes on what the animations look like
- Look at the animations on Weather Whizz kids and take notes
- Look at the different types of Volcanoes on Volcano Explorer, build your own virtual Volcano and see how it erupts
Volcanic Simulations
View more presentations from Jacqui Sharp.
Follow the animation steps in the Animating objects PowerPoint and practice making an animation.
Ask the students can they identify what type of volcano they have, and if the order of eruption correct. If not then they can work on their volcanoes to make the necessary adjustments.
Further Activities:
- Select one of the Volcanoes in Auckland, take a photo or find a photo, crop it, identify what type of volcano it is and create a volcanic eruption simulation
- create a volcanic simulation of your local volcano, upload to Slideboom, embed in a Glogster poster explaining the type of volcano it is
- Read 'Under the Mountain' by Maurice Gee (a fantasy fiction based some of the volcanoes in Auckland) Create a map showing the positions and type of volcano, create a simulation for the 3 different volcanoes
Monday, 12 May 2008
VoiceThread
Voicethread is a collaborative space of group conversations.
The example below is created by a student called Zoe in America, she designed it around her interest in Global Warming.
A VoiceThread can be created using documents, videos and photos. Comments can be added by registered users by text or voice.
The example below is created by a student called Zoe in America, she designed it around her interest in Global Warming.
They can be exported to your computer as a widescreen movie and to wikis, blogs and webpages. You can use a variety of images: JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG; docs: PPT, PPS, PDF, DOC, XLS; and videos. If you've got a Flickr account, you can import from those as well.
It has a 'doodle' feature which means you can draw over the images to make a point while you are recording your voice.
Classroom Application:
a way for children within the class to collaboratively present
It has a 'doodle' feature which means you can draw over the images to make a point while you are recording your voice.
Classroom Application:
a way for children within the class to collaboratively present
- an investigation
- book report
- any writing genre (recounts, reports, explanations, descriptions, procedural etc)
- technology challenge
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