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Apr 12

Monsters this way

This is something strangely Frankenstein about Inkle Studios rewriting of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with this literary exploration carefully carving and restitching the original narrative. This interactive version, though more a likened to CYOA has received a perplexing array of reviews, what is in agreed is that Frankenstein is fantastically designed and illustrated piece of entertainment.

The existing storyline restrains the interactive or CYOA experience, and yet, it encourages the reader to play an active role in the narrative. It is this engagement with the text that attracts my interest as an educationalist. Do it grab yours? Resisting the temptation to full exploit the media capabilities of the iOS platform is a critical factor.

A number of articles suggested possible IF reworks, Wuthering Heights for example. One GCSE text that I would be interested in reworking IF would be ‘Of Mice and Men.’ Certainly the ending could be guided toward tragedy.

 

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Apr 12

TED ED – time to try again?

We have been here before. To flip or not to flip, that is the question. Where the lesson is taught to oneself or in a small group outside of the class, then what is learnt is discussed in class.

What is flip teaching? This refers to a method of instruction where classroom-based teaching time and traditional “homework” time are reversed (flipped). A teacher provides video lessons to be reviewed outside of class, which in turn gives teachers more time in class to focus on higher-order learning skills.

There is already O2learn, the now infamous Khan Academy, then there is ehow this and  instructables that. Now we have TED-ED with their own subtle twist to the flipped approach and impressive list of advisors.

Here, a growing collection of lessons on a variety of topics have been submitted by educators and then animated by professional animators. Add to that a quick quiz, a think piece and a discover more, dig deeper tab.

 

Couriosty killed the cat? No? Satisfaction brought it back.

Have a go and decide for yourself. Sadly for my efforts, too few students fulfilled the home-learning aspect and it proved a frustrating experience. Those that engaged really enjoyed the lesson, those that did not, had to read up and learn what they had missed. Here, the TED-ED questions prove a neat, manageable additional assessment opportunity in IHMO. Time to try again I think. Possibly for a speaking and listening task?

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Apr 12

Favoured Tweets

@chrisedwardsesq:

“If you’re not getting it wrong you’re not trying hard enough.” #TEDxCardiff” – very @tom_peters … Love it!”

http://twitter.com/chrisedwardsesq/status/186354959787368448

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Mar 12

Beyond the Hole in the Wall

If, like me, you are a fan of the calm, thought provoking, and inspiring Prof Sugata Mitra then do take time to review  ‘Self Organised Learning Environment’ or (SOLE). It refers to the adaptation of a school space to facilitate Enquiry Based Learning where teachers encourages their class to work as a community to answer questions using computers with internet access.

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Mar 12

Socrative

Socrative has been on my radar for a little while are it appeared in RSS feed in a few different places. It falls under a category of web based student response systems, and so far is one of my favourite. It was most certainly easy to set up, flexible and functional with the choice of instant response feedback and summarised reports which can be downloaded or emailed. Add to that some nice question variety and random answer sequences to discourage copy-cat answers.

As the teacher, you log in, create  the quiz (and hopefuly share SOC-140292). Student access the quiz via a room key on another device.

This morning we explored self paced and teacher paced quizzing, but it was the “space race” or competitive quizzing that really got their attention. I will have to ask how the scoring sysem work as students found themselves independetly quizzing, as part of a team. (I hope that makes sense).

The verdict, very good. The students certainly enjoyed it.

Like this type of interactive learning, then here are a similar tools.

 

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