Keeping up with the Play! The 2012 ICT Wonder project news….
Kia ora to one and all! Where does review…. Not to forget teaching the time go to! We are counting and learning which is why we are down to the last month of the ICT all here! We had a hui to celebrate wonder project and everyone is and discuss what is happening, and very busy! What great dialogue we we continue to debate and learn up have had about how to use tools to the end of the year! Thanks such as downloading, making icons,teams! I’ll continue documenting video use, movie making, photo our work over the rest of the term story, hard ware, software, including any self review and Interactive Whiteboards and philosophical discussions… keep peripherals, ipads, android tablets, pondering! Ann maintenance, philosophy and self
Thinking about Dramatic play…….. Petone Beach have been focussing on a number of ideas over the year… a key one being the development of dramatic play skills and scripts using ICT equipment. A nice anecdote is of one child who went on a trip to Kelly Tarltons, She began drawing penguins all the time. The addition of digital files on the Kindergarten computer and props to support them meant she could join a group of peers engaged in penguin play and benefit from a developing cooperative playscript on her topic of interest- something she rarely chose before. Nice to see the group using facts gleaned from the clips to extend their script and lovely to see this keen penguin explorer using dramatic play over the next week or so in a range of ways to explore her interest using another of the ‘100 languages!’ How cool to see her sitting on a pretend egg in the ‘snow’ waiting for her penguin partner to come! Check out other NZ research about dramatic Play and ICT…. http://wonderingaboutict.blogspot.co.nz/search/label/dramatic%20play
Sharing the Journey….
Thanks to teams from our Project family for sharing anecdotes about their journey this year on Tuesday… woes, epiphanies, hard work and benefits…. It was lovely to see some teachers join us from outside the project and to see how brave our budding public speakers can be ….
Thanks to teams from Plimmerton, Moira Gallagher, Hataitai, Ascot Park, Bellevue, and Petone Beach. Likewise to representatives from Brooklyn, Discovery, Parson’s Ave, and Titahi Bay……… We all enjoyed hearing your perspectives!
Ipad as a tool for education…. http://exploringapps.blogs regularly use iPads in their Both staff and student feel pot.co.nz/ teaching they can work more effectively with iPads The iPad as a Tool for Education iPad use is particularly strong in English, Maths Levels of collaborative and Science working have improved Longfield Academy in the UK have implemented an iPad programme. This There is high demand Appropriate use of Apps report, published by Naace from students for iPad use aids learning in July 2012, outlines how to be extended further the iPads have been used All find the iPad easy to for teaching and learning Teachers have identified use in the two terms since the significant benefits for programme started. their workload and have Minor technical issues also The Executive summary is have arisen, often due to identified cost savings as follows: user error, but are readily dealt "This study, one of the Use of the iPads is with most extensive yet increasingly being regarding the use of tablet devices finds that with the developed for homework Effective project and beyond majority of pupils at the management has been school activities school now having iPads critical to the success of there has been a this development. significant and very Students are more The outcomes at Longfield positive impact on learning motivated when using clearly demonstrate the together with further iPads value of the iPad as an significant and still educational tool and the developing changes in role that it can play in pedagogy. In particular it The quality and standard learning and teaching." (p. was found that: of pupil work and progress 4) The overwhelming is rising majority of teachers
And Ipad in NewZealand…. http://manaiakindergarten.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/quinntells-story-of-butterfly-creek.html Here’s a clip from a New Zealand Kindergarten blog showing a clip made on an ipad depicting a child’s ideas on a field trip…….. And comments from a few of the adults most important to him…….. Ka pai to mahi! The Kindergarten comments……. “Quinn told his story on the ipad, using the app SonicPics. This is such a great app for story telling easily loading photos, one press to record, and then the children can swipe across the photos while telling their story. Movies are saved into the library, or emailed to friends, family - or the blog”.
Petone Kindergarten goes live….
Well done to Petone Kindergarten as you come to the end of the first stage of the 2012 journey looking at communicating the programme with your learning community. You have develop some ideas around the template of your own blog, content, intent and rules. Check it out fellow ECE communicators! http://petonekindergarten.blogspot.co.nz/ What’s a blog??? Short for web log- it’s like a journal to record the programme in action. Recent ‘posts’ are on top of the home page showing us all ‘what’s on top’ in the planned programme. It’s a great way to get comments on what is happening… give it a go! If you don’t know how - the blog has a tab ‘How to comment”.
…. And Ascot Park goes fishing! What a great example of reaching out to families who you don’t see so often and using their expertise to help their child become an expert in the programme ….. With his peers seeking advice on a subject. Upon encouraging a Dad to share video footage of great fishing on a recent trip- our newly acknowledged expert shares his ideas with his peers. The team have a window of information to help him contribute and to plan for the extension of a range of concepts based on his interest…. ‘Te Manawa’ in action!
Have you checked out the project blog?
Our blog has entries that relate to the types of conversations we have been having and the types of tools we have been checking out…. The blog is open access and anyone can comment….. 1540 views so far as we got to newletter print!
http://wonderingaboutict.blogspot.co.nz/