Younger students struggle with visualising 3 dimensional rotations of objects. I found an interesting piece of software that allows students to rotate shapes and evaluate their spacial geometry. Will work well for year 7-8 students.
Think of all the time you’ve tried to get the latest tech app to work . Think about all the time you’ve spent creating posts that crash or never upload.Count up the hours. Count up the hours and then you won’t have to wonder why you never get time to study for your KLA exams.
I can no longer insert jpegs into my blogs. I don’t know why. The computer just decided to stop allowing this-go figure.
I’ve found a few websites where you can make comics and then download them . They are all free.
Have a play
I’ve been playing with LAMS and actively constructing my knowledge and understanding – a beautiful thing! LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) is a great platform for creating authentic learning tasks.I like how I can create a lesson and have the students complete a set of questions and get immediate feedback on where they are struggling or succeeding.The beauty of using this software is that I can quickly review a section or topic based on the students responses.
The ability to store,adapt and change the lesson at a future time is a very powerful feature of LAMS.I like how I can share lessons via the LAMS Community Website .In addition I can borrow and adapt. The ability to refine lessons and questioning over a period of time is another great feature of LAMS.
Obviously the more I work with this powerful tool I will be able to integrate additional functions and utilise the functionality in new and exciting ways.
I’ll leave you with a quote from James Dalziel – the founder of LAMS
Initial evaluations of LAMS in K-12 school and university environments during 2003 have indicated LAMS has a profound impact on both student learning and teachers’ conceptualisation of the learning process. Research into this impact is ongoing, but one striking early example is in student willingness to engage in whole class discussion of ideas. In one K-12 school pilot evaluation, only 15% of students were willing to discuss ideas in front of their peers in the classroom, but over 80% of the same students were willing to discuss their ideas within LAMS.
IMPLEMENTING LEARNING DESIGN: THE LEARNING
ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LAMS) -James Dalziel ASCILITE 2003
I’m reacting to Madhu’s Blog about a Comic book I created for Maths. Thanks for the profile Madhu.
I found on my prac that students reacted very well to Comic style work sheets. I was able to create some lessons using Comic Life and they were well received.
There is a strong level of disengagement with students and mathematics at the prac school.The school had only one Extension1 student and eight 2 Unit Maths students .The majority of students were studying General Mathematics. Teaching resources such as the Comic Book benefit and engage students who are struggling with 2 Unit and contemplating dropping to General Maths.
Comic Books simplify some of the concepts involved in the topic and reinforces them with extra diagrams and explanation.
Eventually the class would create their own topic summaries to share
“Having students create their own comics can improve motivation, literacy and conceptual understanding.”(Pelton et al 2007).
Here’s a little snapshot of the comic. I created the South Park figures from the South Park website – it has a free section for creating your own characters
Pelton,F. Pelton,L. T. & Moore, K. (2007). Learning by Communicating Concepts Through Comics. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (pp. 1974-1981).
Here goes my first podcast on my dream for education. teach-pod-cast-1
I hope you enjoy.
Paul
P.S All the photos were taken by me and I wrote and produced the music – So Copyright is clear
