Reflective Questions:
How are you going on your visible teaching and learning journey?
I love this, and I am extremely excited about this. At this stage I am still in LEARN CREATE SHARE, and in a linear model, and would love to use this as a cycle. Students need to get over the "I don't want to share" attitude, into that it is a safe place to share.
What's working well?
The students need to know "how it works" and the processes in our class...what does sharing look like in our class?
What gaps do you have?
I still have gaps in the sharing part of the work; for example: some students are still sharing their learning with emails in stead of in the folder. We need to work together as a staff, maybe a good idea to spend a week as a whole school in making our students "cyber-smart".
What help would you like?
For me it is important to know that the whole staff speak "with the same mouth", in other words. Have that first week, where we show students how to use chromebooks, how to save work, how to share work, etc. We can sit down as a staff, and see where the gaps are, that we can "fill" at this first week of digital training. Maybe, the staff can also be part of this initial training, so we all work in the same way/ and "speak the same lingo".
My next steps:
To make sure that I know how/where the students share/save their work. How to get them all to do it the same way. How to get students to blog every lesson to reflect on their learning. To encourage students to use the different ways to creatively share their learning.Every day's lesson on the daily planner will be in the 3 parts: L, C and S.
As I've said before: We (all the staff) need to speak the L, C and S language, in order to get all our students working in this way.....UNITED WE SHALL STAND.
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I like your thinking Mina. Your enthusiasm and the way you are incorporating the Learn Create Share pedagogy is having such a positive impact on your students engagement.
ReplyDeleteIdeally next year everyone would be planning to include Cybersmart components in their lessons or units of work throughout the whole year, it's something that students need reminding of regularly so it just becomes part of what they do.
You're right, it is a really good idea to spend time at the beginning of the new year with your students getting up them up to speed with how to organise their online learning environment.
Things like appropriate file naming conventions, sorting their Google Drive, bookmarks, how to access their blog and other introductory activities like how to navigate the class site.
Looking forward to seeing how this develops within your department.