Rachel Boyd and elearning with juniors
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Parent/Whanau Communication, Inclusion & Understanding
What was important for us? To engage parents and whanau of students transitioning to school through eLearning strategies based on; (a) inclusion (b) communication (c) opportunity (d) learning relationships between teachers, students and caregivers What did we do? Over the ...Tags: Transition, community, parents, whanau, juniors
A Day With ICT In A Y1/2 Classroom. | Learners Inherit The Earth
Cherryl writes on how she uses her data projector in her junior classroom.Tags: data projector, juniors
Engaging online with our Younger Students
I had a lovely time on Friday talking to students from Uruti School in a Taster Class. It made me think, again, that we need to provide more online learning opportunities for our younger students. Our current programmes of learning, weekly classes in languages & other curricula...Tags: vln_primary, projects, online learning, juniors
Integrating traditional literacy with elearning...
We are currently doing an Inquiry into native N.Z. animals. At the moment we are looking at the kiwi. We have combined traditional methods such as questioning using books, writing a mini report, using our 'White Hat' for facts and think, peer, share to build our own knowledge and unde...Tags: integrated, elearning, juniors, information literacy
Five Year Old's Reflecting on Their Learning
Eighteen months ago we began blogging for the first time. We bumbled our way through the first six months, finding our feet. We had a clear vision of what we wanted this to look like. Our Senior students took ownership of their blog from the beginning and this was the hope for a...Tags: juniors, elearning, blogging, comments
And Who Said Young Children Can't Blog?
I felt like Jerry Mcguire today at school, that famous line "Breakdown, breakthrough". So here I am writing my 'mission statement'! No, not really, but this is a celebration of my 5 year olds independently writing blog comments on our class blogs and carrying over the culture of our c...Tags: juniors, comments, blogging
Confirmed: iPads Extend a Teacher’s Impact on Kindergarten Literacy
We asked our kindergarten teachers that question. Anyone walking by one of the classrooms can certainly see that student engagement and motivation is up when using the iPads. But our kindergarten teachers teased it out further. Because they are engaged, students are practicing longer. They are ge...Tags: juniors, research, ipad
Integrating iPads in the Junior School
iPads seem to be the device of the moment, and with several of our schools in the cluster purchasing iPads, it seemed timely to have a bit of a play and introduction to what they can do and how they can be integrated into your daily programme. The first part of the session was spent finding our ...Tags: ipads, integration, juniors
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