I didn't get any photos about e learning today but 3 exciting things happened.
1. About 8 am when I was out on the deck of the class I am using I saw Riva, a 7 year old boy in the Junior Bilingual class as he ran to catch up with another early bird boy in the next class. "Douglas, dont change my picture on my page!!" he said. I had a chat to them about what he was talking about. They lost me. I asked was it like Bebo. he said he had a Bebo page, but this was better as you can win things.???
2. A note came around from a teacher in Y3 asking could anyone help Joss to put text into Imajin? I thought she meant a teacher so I said No. But Joss said could I ask a kid. Jasmine said yes and off she went to do it.
3. I got asked to present a workshop in August a tPeak - ICT Conference in Kawerau. I know its because I am old and I am excited about ICT. I emailed my DP just before and said the last 3 years have been the most mind changing in the last 20+ years of teaching. Maybe I should take Riva and Jasmine with me to the conference to show its the kids who are the teachers as much as we are?
Remember way back when....I took the kids to do the presentation at the first Sitech conference I went to. I had been using the whiteboard 3 months and had to present. The kids the same length of time, but the adaptability and confidence they had far outweighed mine. I always hold with the philosophy in this area, the kids very often are the teachers. Isn't it great that we have children who just jump up and say - yep I can help with that. We don't have to know how to do it, we just have to have the climate to allow it ... and I think we do.
ReplyDeleteAs to the presentation...the kids often say it so much better and are believeable. It has more impact if the kids can show it and tell it.