Wow! Over a month has gone by since my whistle-stop trip to Germany to learn and present at Practical Pedagogies 2018. It was great to learn from so many passionate educators, including getting further inspiration for blogging again from Ross Morrison McGill, aka @TeacherToolkit! Little and often was the key takeaway from his double session on the first day.
Sketchnote courtesy of @lisibo
Hats off to @lisibo for an amazing Sketchnote of the session! The presentation can be found below, including links embedded in each slide:
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 Common Sense Education's Digital Passport has been around since 2012 now, and covers a wide range of internet safety/digital citizen themes that works well with Year 4 children where I teach. This academic year sees a number of changes to Digital Passport. It's still a useful site to use with children but I thought I would run through and outline some of the potential pitfalls that exist to trap the unwary teacher: 1. Lack of a centralised teacher area to track pupil's scores. This was a great feature of the old Digital Passport. It's a shame it no longer exists. Instead I get my pupils to download their certificates as they collect them and store them on a colour-coded Google Slides presentation (access a copy here). 2. Having to log in for each activity can be annoying, especially when the process seems a bit buggy. At least certainly on our desktop machines. (We are running the latest edition Chrome browser so this shouldn't make a difference?) Anyway sometimes 'Start New Game' has to be used when the child clearly has an account but the "Resume Game' option is refusing to let them log in. Perseverance is key, for both teacher and student... |
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5. Exit ticket - find out how the lesson actually went, from your children's point of view...
Find out more below:
Samorost came out in 2003 - fifteen years ago no less - and the children I showed it to then are now in their mid-twenties...a scary thought but it's definitely still worth showing to a whole new generation.
I introduced it to a Y3 class at the end of a half term when we had finished a project the previous week and wanted a 'one-off' to f̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ engage their problem-solving skills.
The rules were simple - I could not give any advice. They could ask any of their friends for hints and tips. The buzz in the room as the penny finally drops on certain parts is worth watching, and there's loads to discuss around perseverance and resilience. Growth mindset wasn't a thing in 2003 (not by name anyway) but it seems resources such as Samorost continue to help learners to tinker, make mistakes and ultimately learn from the experience. The quickest Year 3 (7 & 8 year-olds) managed to crack the first Samorost in around 30 minutes. Try it in your class - there's Samorost, Samorost 2 and the new Samorost 3 if they're really keen. Spoiler alert - I've not used Samorost 3 in class so can't vouch for it being classroom-friendly, although if like the other two it should be fine. There are obvious links to use this as a writing stimulus as well. Check the video out to know what to do if you would like to be ahead of your students...
I introduced it to a Y3 class at the end of a half term when we had finished a project the previous week and wanted a 'one-off' to f̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ engage their problem-solving skills.
The rules were simple - I could not give any advice. They could ask any of their friends for hints and tips. The buzz in the room as the penny finally drops on certain parts is worth watching, and there's loads to discuss around perseverance and resilience. Growth mindset wasn't a thing in 2003 (not by name anyway) but it seems resources such as Samorost continue to help learners to tinker, make mistakes and ultimately learn from the experience. The quickest Year 3 (7 & 8 year-olds) managed to crack the first Samorost in around 30 minutes. Try it in your class - there's Samorost, Samorost 2 and the new Samorost 3 if they're really keen. Spoiler alert - I've not used Samorost 3 in class so can't vouch for it being classroom-friendly, although if like the other two it should be fine. There are obvious links to use this as a writing stimulus as well. Check the video out to know what to do if you would like to be ahead of your students...
Our Mentimeter feeedback, 2018-style:
I recently ran some Professional Development sessions at my school for Google Classroom users. It was billed as an advanced session - for those who have at least used Classroom with their students a little, either now or in the past.
Dubbed 'Digging Deeper with Google Classroom', the session introduced 20 key features or areas that may be unfamiliar to the busy teacher. The session was also broken up with a Quizizz after every 5 features - keeping it interactive and making sure energy levels were propped up on a Friday afternoon.
The Quizizz quizzes that go with the session can be found here or click the image below:
Dubbed 'Digging Deeper with Google Classroom', the session introduced 20 key features or areas that may be unfamiliar to the busy teacher. The session was also broken up with a Quizizz after every 5 features - keeping it interactive and making sure energy levels were propped up on a Friday afternoon.
The Quizizz quizzes that go with the session can be found here or click the image below:
The presentation can be found below. The yellow Quizizz slide indicates that it's time for a quiz.
See if your learners have been following what you've been teaching them.
See if your learners have been following what you've been teaching them.
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