Highlights of our journey so far

Michelle and I presented at staff meeting yesterday about our journey so far with the pilot of iPads as 1:1 devices with our Year 0/1 class.

To begin our presentation, we played this Ted Talk which underscores one of the things we work hard to do in Class 20:

"Our job is to encourage students to be creators not consumers"

We put together an extensive Explain Everything project (over 50 pages) by combining many of the projects we've created over the past 14 weeks, so the staff could see some of the learning that has been happening in our classroom.  During the presentation Michelle explained some of the many reasons we had behind different projects and explained why we'd created the activities we did.  We also continually emphasised how great it is to be able to "hear what children are thinking" even if they are working independently.

Staff meeting 1 from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Staff meeting presentation 2 from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.