RPI Day 8 Creating

Today we had Dorothy Burt and I enjoyed her talk. What resonated with me was when she talked about the importance of getting our kids to be the creators of content not just the consumers.  Dorothy shared cool resources with us such as Crayon - AI generator, Podcasting, Canva and Adobe Firefly or express suite (available for $7 per person in NZ Schools but retails for $1200!).

I learned Why Create is so important: engages & empowers and ‘Looser’ & ‘Tighter’ ways to design Create-to-Learn.  I created a response to text task.

                                        

Naomi shared a handy tip which was when searching up  a topic e.g Google - umbrella png template black.  I can use this when searching for stencil ideas.

There was a focus on opportunities for choice - tools, design, product - and collaboration.  We received some examples and templates which I look forward to implementing.

One-shot film was introduced to us and we had a go at creating our own one minute film for a book trailer.   This I found daunting but fun and it really got the creative juices flowing.  I even drew a Minecraft Creeper and used it in my book trailer.

Some tips for this  Making a book trailer (One shot film) task would be:

• Make sure students know the book well
• Sign off on script
• Get students to work in buddies (after they've read the same book)
• For reticent students get them to use avatars - stationary or moving.
• You don’t need actual green material for the green screen as long as it’s a contrasting colour to what students are wearing.
• When getting students to Reflect on their one shot film they can use the following prompts:What are you proud of? What do you notice? What would you do differently?

Create over longer units - I found these sites super helpful, with amazing ideas and they've given me ideas on how I can give this a go with our school topic themes for each term. e.g Kensuke's Kingdom novel study,  Danny the Champion of the world and Navigation.

RPI 7: Thinking (Cohort 2)

 Today was all about Thinking.  I learned about the importance of Thinking and the role it plays in improving understanding.  We focused on the 3 levels of thinking below:

Getting students to build their thinking skills through Collaborative reasoning will improve my students ability to think critically. 

I enjoyed the Provocation provided: e.g To be brave you have to scared.  This provided robust discussion and deeper level thinking within my group.

In my class I can see provocations being helpful in challenging students perspectives and helping them to see others points of views.It should help to refuel discussion.  I'll have to remind students to challenge ideas not the person.  

I'm also going to get my students to understand from a resistant perspective by rewriting parts of that text. E.g Write from the perspective of Pania or the lady who doesn’t want to bungy jump.  What would they say if they did do the jump?

I found Naomi’s talk on Critical analysis helpful.  

Over the next 3 weeks I will be implementing the following: