Had a great time with 1st year making Viking posters. We started yesterday by identifying evidence for various kinds of Viking activity (as opposed to just copying from the books).
Today each group took one topic each and after a quick discussion, went off to raid the resources. Six groups, six posters: Raiders, Traders, Farmers, Explorers, [...]
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Vikings!
Posted in information literacy, investigations/classes, resources, thinking, tagged Vikings on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scotland’s contribution to science
Posted in Education, information literacy, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, questioning, tagged "Scottish scientists", "Scotland's contribution to science", "Sophia Jex-Blake", "Alexander Graham Bell", "Alexander Fleming" on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This started off begged, borrowed and stolen from a colleague. PT Science originally told me that the Faculty wanted to reintroduce an old investigation on famous scientists, which later turned into Scottish scientists, which further transmogrified into “Scotland’s scientific contribution to the world” to allow scientists whose work took place in scotland too. Not that [...]
Can you be a constructivist librarian?
Posted in CPD, Education, information literacy, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, librarians, thinking, tagged constructivism, Teaching for Understanding, Visible Thinking on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Brooks, G.R. and Brooks, M.G. (2000) “Becoming a constructivist teacher” in A.L. Costa (ed), Developing Minds: a resource book for teaching thinking (pp. 150-157). Alexandria: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
There’s plenty of fascinating stuff in this tome but I’m particularly taken by this article. The authors define constructivism as
a theory of learning that places the [...]
Sensory development
Posted in enthusiasm, imagination, information literacy, inspiration, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, thinking, transferable skills, tagged cross-curricular, Curriculum for Excellence, sensory garden on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love seeing a project develop and grow tendrils and blossom in all sorts of directions.
Teacher1 asked Teacher2 if she could create some A5 poetry cards for our sensory garden. T2 said there was no time. T1 asked me. I spoke to T3 about using LRC time. T3 amenable.
Simple enough. But then the project started one [...]
After Glow
Posted in ICT, information literacy, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, librarians, reading, resources, tagged Catalyst, English department, Glow, History department, JFK assassination, scones, Scotland History/Mystery on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First day back, stinking headache. Too much time spent in small room, staring at a screen might be the reason.
Could also be lack of scones.
All day I’m seeing investigations and activities and wondering if they would be best served on Glow, or fine where they are.
S2 History are still working on JFK, and the same [...]
Glowing
Posted in CPD, ICT, enthusiasm, information literacy, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, librarians, resources, school website, tagged Catalyst, Glow, information literacy, JFK assassination, mentoring, PSHE on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First day training as a Glow Mentor and I’m confused.
Why are there no scones? In-service without scones just isn’t the done thing!
Also, what’s the role of the website, if we’re all on the intranet? I see roles for both, it’s just figuring out what’s to go where, and what needs duplicated, and so on. One [...]
Could you hand me a brick wall, please?
Posted in enthusiasm, information literacy, inspiration, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, librarians, libraries, professionalism, resources, thinking, tagged brick wall, Filamentality, mindmaps, students on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I spoke to the students about how to get the best out of their school library – how to help the Librarian, what to expect in return, not forgetting “we are all individuals“. I thought my mindmap of notes just required printing, but instead it was nowhere to be seen. And I knew [...]
A day in the worklife: period 5: slavery again
Posted in information literacy, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, web 2.0, tagged copyright, laziness, patience, research, slavery, storytelling, wikis on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The wiki continues. Oh dear.
I have no doubt that one day this will work out, but not yet. There’s still too much to learn on both sides. From a class of 28, I have maybe four or five groups who have started to create their pages, after three hours work. I’ve been constantly firefighting, catching [...]
Lessons from a novice wikite, part 2
Posted in information literacy, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, resources, web 2.0, tagged slavery, wikis on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the slave trade investigation is finished as far as possible. The pupils have to move on to their next rotation, so yesterday we tried to make sure everybody created at least something. The four pages that did get created for the Door of No Return are pretty good, while other pupils used SCRAN to create posters, and [...]
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