WorldKit: Rapid and Easy Creation of Ad-hoc Interactive Applications on ...

Now just think what this can do to the world of Education!!!!

5 Best Practices for the Flipped Classroom

5 Best Practices for the Flipped Classroom: Blogger Andrew Miller offers some strategies for making the model work, including appropriate reflection, technology considerations, creating a need to know and more.

Just for fun!! What's your favourite one?

I am tossing up between the colour changing pen and the vacuum cleaner!!

10 Amazing things every teacher needs!

Computational Thinking...a simple representation

What does a personal Learning Environment look like?

In class task..Week 6 # Mindlab # Auckland

Brooke's Personal Learning Environment

Measuring and quantifying Intelligence...a task little understood!

Resonating from last week's session at the Mindlab was the discussion about Intelligence and IQ

tests. a subject dear to my heart as I have always valued 'emotional intelligence' above any other in a

human being. Here's a link to a recent study that discusses the issue further

How do we measure Imaginative Intelligence?

Gaming to Reflect

Flanders Field

HMV Prize

When 7 and 8 year olds use Mine Craft to create 

Flanders Field strewn with poppies

and

HMV Prize with William Sanders on board, waiting for 

German subs in still waters on a 

moonlit night..

in their own time, at home , with no project or home learning 

demands from the teacher, celebrations are called for

because...

1. The Inquiry into Anzac Day has been owned and led by 

these learners to have made this kind of an impact.

2. Anzac Day and its message has hit home and inspired a

respectful response in kids so young.

3. Gaming is a very valid tool for learning when children are 

left to 'their own devices' in the right context with the 

background work done by the coach/teacher/facilitator.