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kynan robinson

What Is Integrated Curriculum? - 0 views

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pbl clp creativity project integrated

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  • 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
      kynan robinson on 18 Apr 12
       
      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.
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      kynan robinson on 18 Apr 12
       
      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
  • kynan robinson on 18 Apr 12
     
    great overview of different approaches to integrated  Curriculum
Andrew Williamson

http://www.johnseelybrown.com/playimagination.pdf - 1 views

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Games in Education games based learning Teacher Interactive

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  • Andrew Williamson on 02 Aug 12
     
    As games, particularly virtual worlds, become increasingly popular and as they begin to approximate large scale social systems in size and nature, they have also become spaces where play and learning have merged in fundamental ways. More important is the idea that the kind of learning that happens in the spaces of these massively multiplayer online games is fundamentally different than what we have come to consider as standard pedagogical practice. The distinction the authors make is that traditional paradigms of instruction have addressed learning as "learning about," while these new forms of learning deal with knowledge through the dynamic of "learning to be." It is the authors' contention that the experiences offered within virtual worlds provide a fundamentally different way of thinking about
Andrew Williamson

Estimate Differences - 1 views

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Maths Mathematics estimation number level2 level3 level4 student interactive

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  • Andrew Williamson on 01 Nov 09
     
    Great student interactive for estimating the difference
Kristen Swenson

CogDogRoo - StoryTools - 0 views

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web2.0 literacy writing digitalstorytelling multimedia

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  • Kristen Swenson on 18 Apr 11
     
    An interesting idea for writing - tell the same story in 5 different ways using a different web 2.0 tool each time  
Andrew Williamson

Why An Unconference? - Meeting Of The Minds Unconference Blog - 0 views

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unconference professional learning Personal Learning Netwrok pln

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  • Andrew Williamson on 07 Oct 12
     
    Some ideas around why we created @motmedu Looking for a conference with a difference? What story do you have to tell? The #motm13 Unconference is built around stories for the purpose of making strong connections with other passionate educators who are integrating ICT with pedagogy.
Khamal Sarkis

Story maker | LearnEnglish Kids | British Council - 0 views

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writing story storymaker digitalstorytelling english storytelling Level1 Level2 Level3 Level4 literacy literature

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  • Khamal Sarkis on 26 Feb 12
     
    This website allows kids to 'make' their own stories in several different genres. There are also other pages worth looking.
Giuliana Abdo

Flash cards, vocabulary memorization, and study games | Quizlet - 0 views

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quiz fun teaching italian north fitzroy

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  • Giuliana Abdo on 11 Jun 12
     
    Flash Card and Study games website covering lots of different themes from history to languages...check it out
Blogos Peroid

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level4 energy

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  • Blogos Peroid on 01 Feb 10
     
    roadrunner cartoon with annotations about different energy (mechanical, etc.)
carmela guglielmino

Back to School Theme Unit - Worksheets, Printables, Posters and activities - 3 views

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All levels

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  • carmela guglielmino on 30 Jan 10
     
    A range of different activities, proformas and posters for the "getting to know you" stage of the school year.
Khamal Sarkis

BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF - 0 views

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avatar interactive animals fun kids web2.0 generator Level1 Level2 Level3 Level4 english literacy education student interactive

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  • Khamal Sarkis on 12 Feb 12
     
    Create a 'wild self' by choosing from different options. A great tool for story writing or even to create an unusual avatar for blogs. Kids love this website.
Andrew Williamson

A Difference Engine Built With LEGO® Pieces - 0 views

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lego computer difference Level4 Level3 maths teacher interactive

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  • Andrew Williamson on 05 Apr 10
     
    Dave this ones for you ;-)
Andrew Williamson

Creating an emotion graph using Google forms | ICT in my Classroom - 0 views

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Literacy English Teaching ideas level3 level4

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  • Your form is complete and now you just need to add the line graph itself to the linked spreadsheet. You will see in your spreadsheet that the header (top) row is filled in with the different events from left to right. Under each column heading add the average =AVERAGE(Range) formula for the cells below, say down to 100 cells below. This will average out the different responses from your form and return a single figure. Don’t worry the survey results should always be added below your average row. I like to add the “Rounded” formatting to these cells as well. Select these average figures and click the “Chart” tool and create a line graph from this data. (These average cells could also be hidden, select the row from the left and click hide row) Find some more detailed steps to making a chart here.
    • Andrew Williamson
      Andrew Williamson on 21 Oct 09
       
      This bit confuses me some what I would have to have a look at the spread sheet once the form is created
  • Andrew Williamson on 21 Oct 09
     
    Wow what a cool idea. You could do this in the Lab. Would be great if we had a 1:1 program. Independent self-analysis of visual, audio or written text. Very easy to create a google form. All students who have access to our email system can do this
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

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kynan robinson

T N T - The Network Thinkers: Social Capital... the Key to Success in the Connected Age - 0 views

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  • In the knowledge economy, knowledge and content are no longer sufficient – everyone has access to many sources of content and knowledge. You cannot compete on what everyone knows. As you move up the hierachy, it becomes more difficult to compete on individual competency – everyone is highly skilled and experienced at the top. It is hard to compete when everyone is so similar.
  • Social capital is derived from employees’ personal and professional networks.
  • Innovation happens at the intersections -- innovative organizations have many more intersections of diverse thinking and approaches than we see above.  
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  • Competing effectively in the connected economy is based on combining (and re-combining) unique knowledge from different parts of the business ecosystem (
  • kynan robinson on 05 Jul 12
     
    Networked Learing - what is it why is important for us as teachers to understand it
Andrew Williamson

nrich.maths.org :: Mathematics Enrichment :: February 2010 Front Page - 1 views

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mathematics Interactive student interactive teacher interactive Level1 Level2 Level3 Level4

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  • Andrew Williamson on 26 Feb 10
     
    This looks like an amazing site with loads of activities for teachers and students. Amazing when do people find the time to put this together and who is paying for it?
  • Matthew Berrisford on 04 May 10
     
    Yep Andrew, total agree! Not quite sure how the stages relate to VELS. But loads of open ended problems and games. Seems to have activities for just about all of the different areas of the Maths cirriculum.
Andrew Williamson

Movie Making and literacy skills | illegal harmonies - 0 views

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ICT student movie movie making literacy Teacher Resource digital storytelling digital literacy

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  • But beyond that againg there is the ideas of student centered learning. The kids are creating personal, meanigful things not another task set by the teacher. The teacher is acting merely as the facilitator, guiding the learning to a deeper place. The ownership of the product gives the students motivation and a greater sense of enjoyment which always enhances learning. In my role as teacher for this project I introduced the idea, showed them some simple concepts and ten basically handed it over to them, always assisting when needed and giving guidance when appropriate
    • Andrew Williamson
      Andrew Williamson on 02 Nov 09
       
      Great pedagogical practice. Student centred learning is what facilitates engagement, enjoyment and a deeper understanding of the content.
  • Creative expression is one of if not the most iportant part of life.  Humans have a desire to create and if we can use ICT to better enable children to do that while effectivly communicating their creations to others than that is fantastic.
    • Andrew Williamson
      Andrew Williamson on 02 Nov 09
       
      This is the essence of what teaching is about. Facilitating student creativity allowing them to decide what to create how to create it and when to create it. The teacher is merely the director pointing the student towards different paths but essentially allowing them to choose.
  • Andrew Williamson on 02 Nov 09
     
    Awesome blog post on Movie making and literacy skills. Some great pedagogy happening with this group of students. I really like Kynan's philosophy of letting the students learn rather than intervening with teacher direction. Final cut express is a rather complicated piece of software but it looks like these kids have eaten it for breakfast
Andrew Williamson

Squares of Differences: subtraction practice toward a greater purpose | math for love - 0 views

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math problemsolving student interactive subtraction game Level2 Level3 Level4

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  • Andrew Williamson on 10 Jul 11
     
    This is a great example of one maths lesson that is open ended to suit the differentiated class. Step by step instructions on how to do it. 
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