This morning, we learned about learning being visible. The main idea I took from this korero is making sure students know what they are learning about and what the teacher's intentions are. Reflecting on this, I definitely need to make this more obvious in my hub, both online and offline. I am starting to think about how I can use my google site for more visible learning not just a placeholder for different documents.
A challenge I am going to start is thinking about how I can incorporate multimodal sites more in our programme. I believe that my students will be more engaged in sites rather than just looking at a journal. I have started by creating a site based on the novel 'I am David'. This is a novel that we read aloud in class. I started by planning what themes are within the book and then finding resources based on the themes. I also tried to find tasks from different levels. I have started learning about online Escape Rooms so it will be another challenge to see if I can merge multimodal and escape rooms together.
At the moment, most of my student's reading activities are based around hard copy journals, books, and worksheets. We have just moved into student-directed learning this term so students get assigned reading tasks but they choose when they complete them and tick them off when done. It will be interesting to see how engaged they would be if I created multimodal reading on our class site. My students already prefer being able to work at their own pace and choose their tasks so I am looking forward to seeing how they take this on. I have a wide range of levels within my class so my biggest challenge will be figuring out how to best execute this! I have attached the link to my Google Site about 'New Zealand and War'. This will be a valuable tool for my students to utilise next year when we learn about NZ history.
It will be another challenge to see if I can use Google sites personally as well. Maybe something to do with my painting and printmaking but I will have to see what happens.
I agree with you Jess about engaging students with multi-modal texts and not just hard copy text. Having the material available on a site also means they can work at their pace through the various texts to deepen their understanding of the theme/topic. Combine this with the toolkits you did this week and you have a powerful means of delivering learning to your students and meeting the diverse needs. Next week will help you develop these ideas further as you will be able to work on your class site
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Kia ora Jess, Totally agree that multi modal can be part and parcel of a learner directed environment and really does help with the self selection. I think there are many different ways to make learning visible but using class sites is obviously one of the easiest ways to do this. One thing I can suggest is making sure the class site contains the WALT and the Success criteria and then using this in your reading lessons with the students. Building it into the class programme as the place to go to find out what you need to know about the lesson. Casting this on a tv instead of writing out WALTS and SC's on a board is one way to incorporate this into the daily flow of learning. It is also modelling to the students where they can find this information themselves. Keep up the great work!
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