Learner: Justin Date: August 2015
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Learning Area: iExplore Learning Coach: John Dyer
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Learning Observed
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Justin recently developed an interest in cities of the world and chose to delight his Hapu group recently with a speech.. He enjoyed researching his topic and finding facts and information that was unusual and interesting. He chose a slide show to present his learning and engaged with the audience as he explained where in the world his chosen cities were and fun facts about each of them. The audience enjoyed finding out about these.
Justin knew the continents and where countries and their capital cities were located. He also answered some simple questions from the audience. I look forward to hearing about more wonders of the world in Term 4. Good Job Justin.
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Evidence of learning
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“And by the age of 3, I had travelled by myself to over 200 countries in a canoe made from a bathtub!”
Justin takes his learning about the world very seriously and he gets up close and personal explaining about many of the wonderful cities of the world to us all.
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Justin needs to aware of his audience and present research that is at their level as some learners were not able to engage with the language and content used. He needs to present with the enthusiasm that he has for his chosen area. Justin should also try to take his learning further by using his ideas and findings to launch an iExplore than goes beyond just a presentation. E.g. It would have been lovely to see this iExplore develop into running a day devoted to Justin’s favourite city and have all the learners get involved..
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Learner: Henry, Willie & Justin Learning Coach :DWilkes Date: Sept 2015- Week 8-10 Learning Area: Technology
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Learning Observed
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For the past few weeks the learners have been engaged in an innovation station! The learners were given the choice of 4 provocations which included: creating an Ormibot from scratch, designing an object in Tinkercad to print in the 3D printer, designing a Science experiment or designing a series of code using Scratch and Makey Makey each of which would develop their capabilities. Henry, Justin and Willie enjoyed the first week of ‘discovery learning’ where they had some choices of tasks to complete to help them get familiar with the coding programme ‘Scratch’ and the extension kit ‘Makey Makey’ and make connections to their prior knowledge. They watched tutorials, tried out their predictions and played around with the various affordances of the equipment and programme. They used the Makey Makey and Scratch to create a game console successfully. Henry also supported other learners with using the Makey Makey- great collaboration and leadership. For Week 9 and 10 the boys worked collaboratively to design and create a jump scare game using the Scratch programme. In order to piece together the code successfully there was a lot of trialling and prototyping which showed the tenacity and resilience of Willie, Justin and Henry. They showed their curiosity, thinking and managing self skills by looking at what others had done and making connections to what they wanted to achieve. See their game here. Willie even wrote a blog post about it already!
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