Ideas and new learning from the visit to Te Kowhai School 13 of August 2013

Was brave today and led a conversation about what i have been doing with QR codes in my class.  Was great to meet Kent who has a year 2 class and he shared how he’s been using QR codes with his year 2 class:

·         Vocaroo – voice recording tool where there is an option to get the voice recording published as a QR code.  Can save this as an image and load this up on the kids blogs

·         Get children to reflect on their learning about a piece of artwork – get them to record their reflections and print out the QR codes.  Then attach these to the kids artwork.  People can then scan the codes and listen to their reflections.

·         Book reviews using QR codes

·         Padlet – print this out as a QR code – children scan this using the ipad and it leads them to the padlet – he used it with a writing prompt.

·         He is now going to investigate how to use this effectively for some math challenges.

 

Check out my class blogs next week as we are going to give vocaroo a go for recording our mihis and creating the QR codes.

Ted Glynn Workshop

Here some of my notes and thoughts from the Ted Glynn workshop i attended as part of our staff PLD in the last school holidays.

Children at the Centre of Communities and Practise

Notes from Professor Ted Glynn Lecture 24 July 2013

A community of practise involves:

·         A community of practise

·         A domain of knowledge

·         A body of shared practises

·         Negation and construction of identities

 

A person’s identity is made up of the communities they are competent in.

 

·         Interactions enhance relationships

·         Relations that enhance interactions

 

Participation in a community of practise:

 

·         Engaging with other members

·         Accountability

Wenger 1998  - boundary objects, people and practises

 

Permeable Boundaries

Educators interested in inclusion need to consider the effect on learning of crossing boundaries between communities of practise.  E.G. communities of practise at home, and communities of practise at home.

 

Boundary Crossing

·         Sports team

·         Birthday parties

·         Shopping in the same community

·         Drive through the neighbourhood

·         Get seen in the community

 

Funds of Knowledge

·         Historical knowledge

·         Culture knowledge

·         Strategies

·         Resources

 

Find ways of respecting this knowledge

 

Uses phrases such as

·         ‘what is your knowledge about  . . . . ‘

·         ‘Can you share what you know about . . .’

 

Expertise – knowledge that comes from experience.

 

 

James Nottingham:  Believes that ability group can have a potentially negative effect – advocates grouping based on interest.