Saturday, February 13, 2016

Katherine, Jasmin & Alysia - RESPECT iExplore Learning Story



Learners:  Alysia, Katherine & Jasmin  
Learning Coach: D. Wilkes          Date: 5.2.16
Learning Area: iExplore - Social Science
Learning Observed
In the first week of school Alysia, Katherine & Jasmin opted into an iExplore around ‘respect’ ultimately creating a product using a digital media.  One of the key purposes of this was to become more familiar with our OrmPS Learning Model. The girls embarked on some important foundational learning around respect and made connections to the Treaty of Waitangi as well.  Katherine and Alysia are beginning to understand that people have social, cultural, and economic roles, rights, and responsibilities and that cultural practices reflect and express people’s customs, traditions, and values.  Jasmin enjoyed working with a range of other learners and is beginning to understand how people make significant contributions to New Zealand’s society and that we all have rights and responsibilities.  Working with other learners, the girls began the learning adventure by unpacking the word ‘respect’  being curious around what  it means to them? why is it important? using the mini-whiteboards.  They had an opportunity to see the Treaty of Waitangi and to make the connection that it was an agreement grounded in respect.  They had some fun ideating ‘what would you have on your treaty should aliens comes to live on planet Earth?’ After that, the girls really enjoyed thinking about how we ‘Respect self’  ‘Respect Others’ and ‘Respect Environment’ at OrmPS and came up with some fantastic contributions- particularly around respecting others.  They then collaborated to create a media product which they could present to the wider group and they selected Tellagami (see image below).  I was so pleased with how Katherine and Alysia worked as capable role models for Jasmin.  Ka Pai!
Evidence of learning
RESPECT iExplore presentation
Next Learning Steps
  • Start an iExplore learning journey carefully using the OrmPS learning model
  • Complete their Tellagami and present to a group
  • Continue to work collaboratively with learners who are not in their immediate social circle
  • Use the vocabulary and NZSL signs that learn in other learning areas
  • Grow their capabilities with other digital tools through practice eg. Pic Collage, Sock Puppets, Puppet Pals, iMovie etc.


Tuesday, February 9, 2016

my reflection with gary

Today we learned about.....

Gary learnt about.  Katherine learnt about...
About how to make a superhero and with mrs hicky.
About how to be a digital cidistionship  leader.


Our next learning steps are....

Making sure that we learn more things and
have more time to do more learning
because we love doing learning with other people.




 



Friday, February 5, 2016

Jasmine, Katherine, Dhillon, Nima & Daisy's Connected Challenge Learning Story



Learners: Jasmin, Katherine, Dhillon, Nima & Daisy    
Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 5.2.16
Learning Area: iExperience - Relating to Others
Learning Observed
This term our focus is on how we can be connected citizens. To introduce this, the Learning Coaches set up a series of challenges for the learners to complete. Each challenge was worth a different amount of points and the teams had to work together to get the highest amount to win. One task was to get all team members to cross the ‘Nile River’ (the width of one netball court) using only three hoops.
Jasmin, Katherine, Dhillon, Nima and Daisy had to discuss ways to make this work before attempting it. They needed to think about how their words, actions, attitudes and ideas impacting the success of the team. Each learner was able to act in a collaborative way in order to achieve the joint goal of crossing the ‘river’. They were capable of devising a method to connect their strengths and remain safe from the Nile Crocodiles!
Evidence of learning




Next Learning Steps
  • Swap roles so other members of the team retrieve or replace the hoops.
  • Make a point to do some iDevelop learning with one of their team members and build this relationship.