20 Dec Managing a Classroom Full of Angry Birds - An Interview with Lachlan Hull

I had the opportunity to speak with Alan November from November Learning about the work I have done this year with my class.  It was a great experience to share the learning that has happened in my classroom throughout the year.   Managing a Classroom Full of Angry Birds - An Interview with Lachlan H...

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5 Nov Augmenting Education: Age 5 ½

Aurasma Lite Making the Augmented World possible. Yesterday was Technology Friday (TF) in our classroom.  For those not familiar with TF, I urge you to consider implementing it into your educational contexts.  TF was created by the students in my class to help them better understand technology. After some negotiating, it was decided that we would set aside time every week to learn ways which we can use the different Information,...

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20 Oct Class Dojo: Building Positive Classrooms in Realtime. UPDATE!

Previously, I had written about Class Dojo and its place in my classroom.  Over the past few days, my class has worked hard to re evaluate the behaviours they had chosen to work with in the classroom.  Previously we had negotiated 6 positive behaviours and 6 negative behaviours.  All of which are listed below. Our Class Behaviours 100% Student Negotiated, 100% Student Owned. Today, my students asked if we could look at the behaviours...

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11 Oct TECHNOLOGY FRIDAYS! Made for Children by Children

TECHNOLOGY FRIDAYS! My students wanted to develop a space of time we set aside each week to learn how to use ICLT's in our classroom. I have stated previously that I work with a class of 26 students.  Over the course of the year I have developed a massive amount of respect for the 5-year-old learners in my classroom.  As expected, we encounter technology in our classroom every day.  We experience it in our daily routines, we experience...

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9 Oct Class Dojo: Building Positive Classrooms in Realtime

Everything we do is behaviour.  I sometimes struggle to understand my own behaviour and I have had years of practice at monitoring, assessing and managing it.  One thing I have noticed as a teacher is that once you put a class of children together, everything is multiplied. I have questioned myself many times on the fairness of pushing 26 or so students into a classroom context and expecting them to manage and negotiate their own behaviours....

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16 Jul Digital Storytelling in Classrooms

Storytelling is such an important device that builds communication between other people.  As we advance further into the "digital age"  there are more opportunities for classrooms to build on and develop their storytelling skills through a diverse range of  Information Communication and Learning Technologies (ICLT's). When using ICLT's in  the classroom, I believe they need to be seen as " invisible devices."  Just like...

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