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Friday, October 30, 2009
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
moving and learning
One of the things I have taken on board following the ILT conference is including movement with learning. For our alphabet song (Sing Your Way To Reading & Writing) we have incorporated some actions for each of the letters and their sounds. If what Rich Allen was putting to us is correct, this should help the children to learn their sounds by association and connecting and as we are making this 'fun' and hopefully eliminating any 'stress' if what Marcia Taite was saying is true, they will take the sounds on board ready for use in reading and writing, this is learning and will grow their dendrites.
Another movement based experience following the conference that I have put in place for the Room 27 Learners is 'jumping out' our words. This involves a letter mat that I created over the term break where we are using the high frequency words used in our writing or that we find in books and we 'jump them out'. Individual children take turns at being the word jumper and the remainder of the class has an important job to point at the next letter and say it out loud when the jumper gets to it. This was shown to us by Rich Allen where it was used in senior classes for jumping out spelling words. One of my students (New Entrants) took these photos for our class as she was the class photographer for the day.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
iPod touch in education
learning in hand suggested applications for learning
wired teacher an iPod touch in every classroom?
Chris' web space - why an iPod touch in education?
DigMo - IPod Touch & Education
After seeing some of the cool 'apps' for learning I have been looking into the iPod touch with 'learning lenses' on. There are a lot of free applications as well as some you can buy. I can see many uses for this in students learning, especially as it create's a 'hook' into learning for young learners!
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