Posted in Reactionary on Nov 6th, 2008 No Comments »
I was very impressed with Madhu and Tania’s demonstration of their LAMs immersion activity. This type of learning design has all sorts of possibilities.
This type of lesson structure has obviously captured the imagination of others in our group. I was intersted to hear about Paul’s and Matthew’s thoughts on the subject.
When I was on practicum [...]
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I am overawed by the amount of resources that are available to new teachers such as ourselves. For any topic that I need to teach all I have to do is google and I will find 100’s of resources produced by teachers that have been placed on the internet for my benefit!
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I have just been reading Mark’s blog on POE’s (Predict – Observe – Explain) . I am a big fan of POE’s and have done a number of them in science class. My favourite is the Alka Seltzer rocket. Each student is given a film canister [...]
Posted in Regular on Nov 5th, 2008 No Comments »
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This is an idea that I used for year 11 students studying DC circuits. All of the students worked in cooperative learning teams of 3 (Killen 1998) and had the opportunity of using the equipment to create a circuit. It was at this stage that I could [...]
Posted in Regular on Nov 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Sadly, I am still unable to embed a video into my blog, but I would highly recommend that you take a look at this “YouTube” video. It shows a group of adolescents popping popcorn with a mobile phone!
All teenagers are familiar with mobile phones and the majority of them would have spent many hours using [...]
