Love2Learn

Imagine I love the word, the idea, the song (melody, lyrics, riffs). We received a (much-wanted) piano – a gift from a stranger (quick digression: husband asked at a local garage sale if they had a piano. The answer was no but that their brother had one to give away but it was in Bega – [...]

Term 2 2012 was spent as a relief teacher, teaching Computing Studies to mostly boys in years 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12. When I started that journey, I had a dream of Students as Teachers, a post I ended with: Students will learn. This time, I’ll let them teach…each other…and quite possibly, me. With [...]

As previously blogged, I’m doing Inquiry-based learning with my Year 11 Information Processes and Technology (IPT) class. Our topic now is Analysis and our focus question is “What price a dream?”. The class has been working on this for a few lessons now and yesterday I asked if they felt they were learning. One responded [...]

I am filling in for another teacher to teach Year 12 Information Processes and Technology (IPT) for a few weeks.  My class was nervous (to say the least) when I said I would teach them in way that perhaps they were never taught before. It’s not that I was being particularly innovative but I really [...]

  by  malynmawby  Dandelions are considered weeds and yet they are pretty – from a different perspective. Students are meant to be learners. I want to try a different perspective where students are teachers.  This is certainly not an original idea (e.g. Steve Wheeler posted: “What the flip?“); however, it is new-ish to me. I’ve read up [...]