Love2Learn

My year 10s had just had their storyboards assessed and approved. They were supposed to get started with planning for the next  stage of their multimedia projects; maybe even get started developing components of it. BUT My year 10s were visibly unsettled today at period 1. They said they had an English assessment next period – [...]

Day 2 lived up to Day 1. Could I end there? Seriously, the themes from day 1 carried on.  My main takeaway from Dean Groom  is the importance of imagination and giving opportunities to not only let this surface/play but to used to meet a need to find a solution.  Actually, he mentioned this equation: tools + [...]

  by  Mal Booth  I was gardening yesterday and I was delighted to see that my “neglected” orchid had buds, very much like the photo above. It was not really neglected in the sense that these plants like to be outside, in dappled light…and obviously it was happy enough to flower! That was the good news. The [...]

As I’ve gotten older, I’m getting more irked by the idea of “personal best” (PB) or saying “do your best”. This is an issue as many parents and teachers (and schools) I know promote the idea….I’m going against the grain. What gives? I have 2 main reasons. One is the problem of definition, i.e. that [...]

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 [...]