Planning for Learning
This video hopefully contributes to the journey we’re currently taking at St. Michael’s, both with renewing our teaching and learning in HSIE (and later Science and Technology, etc.), and the emerging conversation around a whole-school learning pedagogy. I think the HSIE-focussed members of the Curriculum Team have implemented a great idea with the “parking lot” in the staffroom. Unfortunately, I can stick the video up on a piece of butchers’ paper!
This video, which captures a teaching and learning experience (for both teachers and students) within our own diocese may be entitled Teaching and technology, but when you listen carefully, the teaching and the learning takes the fore. The laptops don’t jump out at you as such because they’re not the focus of the learning, just one of the tools – but one where “the possibilities are endless.”
I’m contributing this video not to push technology into our conversation because it should (and is) already there. Rather, pay close attention to the teachers explaining how they planned for this exciting and engaging learning. I’ve tried thinking from a similar viewpoint as I’ve planned my own class’ work this term on British Colonisation of Australia.
Let’s keep embracing our big ideas and seeing how all the steps fit together.
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August 15th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
[...] Our school’s undergoing a process of revisiting how we learn in our different Key Learning Areas (Human Society and Its Environment is the first focus). We engaged in the second of a series of very worthwhile staff meetings examining more closely the principles that underpin the HSIE curriculum, the mandatory content and skills outlined in the curriculum foundation statements and the information skills process. Today we then progressed further to look more closely at how we plan for learning. The conversation has been exciting and challening; and I’ve made one of my many contributions to the discussion through the medium of Technoblog. [...]