2. • Kim Naylor, Principal
Rosehill Public School
formerly Mt Lewis Infants
School
• Georgia Constanti,
Principal McCallums Hill
Public School formerly
Nicholson St Public School
• Rupinder Singh, Teacher
Canley Vale Public School
WHO
16. Focus on Creativity - Student directed, problem
Solving - 4Cs
KIDSMEET 3 @ MOUNT LEWIS INFANTS
17.
18. “Making” is the process of designing and building hands-on activities that combine
arts, crafts, engineering, music, performance, creative reuse, science, and technology.
The Maker movement values everyday experience, designing solutions collaboratively
in a hands-on way, using readily available materials and tools, and gaining knowledge
from peers and other non-traditional sources.
KIDSMEET 4 @ NICHOLSON ST PUBLIC SCHOOL
Cardboard Challenge
19.
20. Cardboard Challenge – The Stimulus
Caines Arcade -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U
KIDSMEET 4 @ NICHOLSON ST PUBLIC SCHOOL
26. What went well – Students developing their 4C
skills, cross cultural understandings,
experiential learning
What to change – Giving students more
ownership of Kidsmeet structure/organisation
Where to from here – Sustainability, Developing
new Kidsmeet school partnerships
REFLECTIONS
Editor's Notes
All
All
Kim Twitter @ Inspire Innovate met on line
Kim learning purpose for our kids
Kim Seeking cross cultural connections for MLIS and professional connections with progressive educators.
Georgia – as we conversed on twitter we started thinking about how we could get our students together. The Kidsmeet idea was inspired by teach meet - The concept of teachers sharing their learning informally and learning together. Why couldn’t students be doing the same thing? We know that students thrive on authentic audience and learn, as we all do when our learning is valued and we can talk about our learning.
So Kidsmeet was born.
We would get our students together to talk about their learning. What this would look like we weren’t quite sure of at this point and as you will see later the format of each kids meet was different and evolved as we learnt more.
Georgia – We started with some common goals. If we are really honest about global connected learning. Kids meet would provide an authentic way to interact with other students. Kidsmeet would allow authentic relationships to be made between students and teachers across schools. Kids meet would give students an audience – no longer producing for their teacher or classroom … instead someone else out there was interested in their learning.
Georgia
Georgia – goal was building relationships and sharing student work. This was about introductions.
Georgia - very structured. Still separate. Lots of teacher direction and lecture style presentation.
Georgia – some interaction but still very traditional in approach.
Rupinder – We went a step further. Skype session with Nicho to set the scene and be more comfortable with interacting with students from other schools. Getting to know each other. Experiential learning – some students had never skyped before. Learning has no boundaries!
Rupinder – We thought Nicho students were lucky to have a school close to the harbour. Athletics carnival in front of the harbour. What does CVPS have to offer? Cultural showcase – Lantern dance, Cambodian dance – Technical issues – Teacher modelled problem solving skills
Rupinder – Richard Gerver – Focus on skills not content. Played games that got students to use their creative and critical thinking skills, problem solving, collaboration and communication to make different objects using their bodies with a certain number of students. High levels of engagement.
Rupinder – David Price – Authentic audience. This was the highlight – shopfront presentations. Students led their shopfronts and showcased their learning to students from Nicho and Mt Lewis. Mt Lewis kids taught kids from other 2 schools how to make hats. Students used metalanguage while teaching other kids – collaborating, entrepreneurialism, communicating etc. General capabilities – literacy, numeracy, ethical understanding, intercultural understanding
Kim At MLIs from Kindy- students own their learning. Logging in early, sharing and creating. iPads, connected, blogging. General Capabilities central to our programs. Opportunities for leading learning, sharing and broad feedback. Wanted to have kids completely in charge of the learning, problem solving, and the Cs, particularly collaboration, cultural understanding, creativity. Risk taking- an area these children were really struggling with- they want the ‘right’ way. We created experiences where they could experiment, fail- possibly, redesign- all within open ended tasks. They were very competitive in the marshmallow challenge as groups, kids who didn’t know each other quickly taking on roles, supporting, trialling and regrouping.
Kim
Collaboratively designing bridges. Draw a group design- experiment, trial, discuss how to solve design problems. Lots of talk, really strong collaborative language- exciting watching the students develop roles in the groups, flexibly negotiating. Every group engaged, learnt, not necessarily successful designs but great learning.
Georgia – 4 kidsmeet was Cardboard challenge … this was inspired by the Maker Movement and STEM/STEAM teaching and Caines Arcade.
Making is about creating not consuming and cross disciplinary learning.
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Rupinder
Rupinder
Rupinder
Georgia
All – intro the design task. – make a game that someone else in the room will play.
