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Ross Toogood

www.multiplication.com - 0 views

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    Some helpful ideas and resources for multiplication
kynan robinson

What Is Integrated Curriculum? - 0 views

  • Can making wind and rain machines improve the reading comprehension and writing scores of elementary students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test? Do students really learn math by learning to clog dance? When students spend after-school time participating in a microsociety that reflects the roles of real life, will their test scores in math and reading improve?
  • Lee's students have shown more than 100 percent gains in comprehension and writing on the FCAT.
    • kynan robinson
       
      Its sad that we even have to ask these questions, what about increased levels of creative thought, or deeper understanding of social interactions etc etc etc
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  • Lee claims that when she teaches science concepts she also teaches students to think and write in the structured, coherent ways required on standardized tests
  • What exactly is integrated curriculum? In its simplest conception, it is about making connections. What kind of connections? Across disciplines? To real life? Are the connections skill-based or knowledge-based?
  • we defined three approaches to integration—multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary
  • Multidisciplinary approaches focus primarily on the disciplines.
  • When teachers integrate the subdisciplines within a subject area, they are using an intradisciplinary approach
  • Through this integration, teachers expect students to understand the connections between the different subdisciplines and their relationship to the real world.
  • In this approach to integration, teachers organize the curriculum around common learnings across disciplines. T
  • ey chunk together the common learnings embedded in the disciplines to emphasize interdisciplinary skills and concepts.
  • They are learning the interdisciplinary skill of communication (thinking and writing in a structured and coherent way).
  • In the transdisciplinary approach to integration, teachers organize curriculum around student questions and concerns (see Figure 1.3). Students develop life skills as they apply interdisciplinary and disciplinary skills in a real-life context. Two routes lead to transdisciplinary integration: project-based learning and negotiating the curriculum
  • Project-Based Learning. In project-based learning, students tackle a local problem. Some schools call this problem-based learning or place-based learning. According to Chard (1998), planning project-based curriculum involves three steps:
  • Teachers and students select a topic of study based on student interests, curriculum standards, and local resources. The teacher finds out what the students already know and helps them generate questions to explore. The teacher also provides resources for students and opportunities to work in the field. Students share their work with others in a culminating activity. Students display the results of their exploration and review and evaluate the project.
  • Negotiating the Curriculum. In this version of the transdisciplinary approach, student questions form the basis for curriculum.
  • Studies of project-based programs show that students go far beyond the minimum effort, make connections among different subject areas to answer open-ended questions, retain what they have learned, apply learning to real-life problems, have fewer discipline problems, and have lower absenteeism
  • The boundaries of the disciplines seemed to dissolve abruptly.
  • The essential difference between the three approaches was the perceived degree of separation that existed between subject areas. Given our experiences at the time, both of us believed that the three approaches fit on an evolutionary continuum.
    • kynan robinson
       
      all education is evolutionary which is why we need to keep studying, reading investigating asking questions
  • suggests that even intradisciplinary projects should include math and literature/media to be rich and vibrant
  • backward design process.
  • We believe that educators will continue to experience deepening connections as they become more experienced in this area.
  • Real-life context Student questions
  • Coplanner Colearner Generalist/specialist
  • Disciplines identified if desired, but real-life context emphasized
  • All knowledge interconnected and interdependent Many right answers Knowledge considered to be indeterminate and ambiguous
  • Student questions and concerns Real-world context
  • Interdisciplinary skills/concepts stressed
  • shift
  • Interdisciplinary skills and disciplinary skills applied in a real-life context
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    great overview of different approaches to integrated  Curriculum
kynan robinson

How I Write a PBL Activity - 0 views

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    How to write a good project great blog with lots of ideas
Con Rigopoulos

Sound Infusion - 1 views

Sound Infusion is an online application part of the Cultural Infusion website that allows students to create music from various different cultures and then showcase their creations. Might be a grea...

Level3 Level4 student interactive ICT Cultural Infusion

started by Con Rigopoulos on 20 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Andrew Williamson

Palio De Siena - 0 views

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    Looking at this for carnevale 
Linda Codognotto

Math is Fun - Maths Resources - 0 views

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    A good resource for all ages, contains examples/working out and also questions and problems for students to solve. Has a wide variety of topics and activities. 
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    Maths - Grade 1 to 6
Andrew Williamson

Story Starters | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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    Awesome Story starter, prompt site. Great for WUSW and or homework ideas. 
Andrew Williamson

Motivating Boy Writers.ca: Motivation and Engagement of Boys - Australia - 0 views

  • "Meaning is made in ways that are increasingly multimodal – in which written linguistic modes of meaning are part and parcel of visual, audio, and spatial patterns of meaning. Take for instance the multimodal ways in which meanings are made on the World Wide Web, or in video captioning, or in interactive multimedia [e.g. mobile phones], or in desktop publishing, or in the use of written texts in a shopping mall. To find our way around this emerging world of meaning requires a new, multimodal literacy. "
  • The positive impact of an integrated culture of literacy – taking an integratedapproach across the curriculum• effective writing strategies; for example, ensuring that boys understand thetechnical skills of writing and understand the meaning and purposes of writing• effective cooperative experiences – making reading a socially constructedactivity by giving the students the opportunity to discuss between themselvesthe relevance of the text to other texts and to their lives• the importance of oral language in improving in writing• the value of explicit teaching of reading and writing – providing clearobjectives, a variety of text types, content that engages the interest of boys andquestions that promote understanding• the value of teacher feedback – effective assessment and constructive feedbackfrom teachers• the need for high but realistic expectations• the positive impact of the integration of ICT• linking literacy to boys’ experiences and popular culture• multimodal texts and boys’ interests• the dangers of generalizing content for boys• boys and critical literacy.
    • Andrew Williamson
       
      Can see the advantage of having a well integrated ict program for this to be achieved
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    Motivating Boy Writers
Andrew Williamson

Listing of education widgets - 0 views

    • Andrew Williamson
       
      Some great widgets here for student and classblogs. I could see Buzzbite being really useful in a chance and data lesson whilst Polldaddy could be used to collect some raw data for an opinion piece-persuasive writing
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    Some cool useful widgets that might be useful for blogs. I know that Peter O has used poll daddy on his class blog
Andrew Williamson

Story Starters | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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    Great resource for WUSW
Evey Chen

Sheppard Software: Fun free online learning games and activities for kids. - 0 views

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    FANTASTIC interactive site with loads of free stuff in ALL curriculum areas. A must-use for all teachers
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    Interactive games for p-2
Khamal Sarkis

Phonics Games - 0 views

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    A great site for teaching phonics with lots of fun activities.
Khamal Sarkis

Free Phonics Games Online | reading games, spelling games, alphabet games with audio, t... - 0 views

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    Phonics games, online phonics games for students, reading and spelling games for kids and adults from Fun Fonix.com!
kynan robinson

Project-Based Learning: A Short History | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Projects are typically framed with open-ended questions that drive students to investigate, do research, or construct their own solutions.
  • How can we reduce our school's carbon footprint? How safe is our water? What can we do to protect a special place or species?
  • How do we measure the impact of disasters? Students use technology tools much as professionals do -- to communicate, collaborate, conduct research, analyze, create, and publish their own work for authentic audiences. Instead of writing book reports, for instance, students in a literature project might produce audio reviews of books, post them on a blog, and invite responses from a partner class in another city or country.
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  • it consistently emphasizes active, student-directed learning
  • Learning to read is no longer enough. Today's students must to be able to navigate and evaluate a vast store of information. This requires fluency in technology along with the development of critical-thinking skills
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