If you enjoyed reading about iCity two years ago in this blog you can now download the iCity booklet at the Apple Bookstore for Free.
iCity is booklet number 2 of the Spreading JAM series. Book 3 and 4 (iCelebrate and iLive) will be available soon.
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Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Thursday, February 19, 2015
iCity
Great News!
If you enjoyed reading about iCity two years ago in this blog you can now download the iCity booklet at the Apple Bookstore for Free.
iCity is booklet number 2 of the Spreading JAM series. Book 3 and 4 (iCelebrate and iLive) will be available soon.
If you enjoyed reading about iCity two years ago in this blog you can now download the iCity booklet at the Apple Bookstore for Free.
iCity is booklet number 2 of the Spreading JAM series. Book 3 and 4 (iCelebrate and iLive) will be available soon.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
QR Codes !!!!
When an opportunity arises JUMP IN!!!!
Imagine this...two students eating lunch, get talking about what they brought for lunch and how it was bought at the supermarket.
The teacher starts paying attention to the conversation. The next thing she knows one is saying:
"- so the woman at the cashier passes the food on this rectangle that goes beep and this appears on the computer, like magic!"
AHA!!!!!
I jumped in immediately... and explained that she is passing the food over a scanner that translates the barcode on the food for the computer.
We looked for barcodes on their food, and then on their boxes of apple juice, and then we found them on books! Soon, all the children were looking for things with barcodes.
So, the next morning, there were 2-D barcodes (specifically, QR codes) posted at various places around the school. I had downloaded an app onto the class iPad, and the children were able to scan the codes to read them. Of course, I had printed the codes the previous evening, and they contained fun messages for the kids to read! (Yes - to read. Sneaky, isn't it?)
Next step: coded math puzzles!
You never know when the kids will get curious about something, but when they do, it can be amazing how much fun - and learning - you can get out of it!
Imagine this...two students eating lunch, get talking about what they brought for lunch and how it was bought at the supermarket.
The teacher starts paying attention to the conversation. The next thing she knows one is saying:
"- so the woman at the cashier passes the food on this rectangle that goes beep and this appears on the computer, like magic!"
AHA!!!!!
I jumped in immediately... and explained that she is passing the food over a scanner that translates the barcode on the food for the computer.
We looked for barcodes on their food, and then on their boxes of apple juice, and then we found them on books! Soon, all the children were looking for things with barcodes.
So, the next morning, there were 2-D barcodes (specifically, QR codes) posted at various places around the school. I had downloaded an app onto the class iPad, and the children were able to scan the codes to read them. Of course, I had printed the codes the previous evening, and they contained fun messages for the kids to read! (Yes - to read. Sneaky, isn't it?)
Next step: coded math puzzles!
You never know when the kids will get curious about something, but when they do, it can be amazing how much fun - and learning - you can get out of it!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Fruit and the Future
Some posts back I wrote that we are educating the children for a future we cannot imagine. That's a difficult concept, because of course it's hard to imagine what we cannot imagine!
Here's a British TV sketch you'll enjoy. On one level it's just a funny sketch; on another it makes us aware of how many words we use in ways that were inconceivable when we were children (that is, those of us who are over 35 now). And of course, there are many more concepts we use daily now, using words that didn't exist at all back then!
We live in a world that no-one could imagine, when we were kids.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Friends, Camera, Action
"Friendly Situations"
This is an activity where the kids are divided into groups, and each group (3 or 4 kids) gets a (still) camera. They have to discuss among themselves what a friend is, how to keep friends, and how can you show you are someone’s friend. They then plan an acting scene around the theme of “A Friendly Situation.” Once that has been planned, one directs and the others act out the situation, while the Director takes pictures of their acting. We rotate the job of Director/photographer so that everyone on each team gets to do it.
After that, we upload the pictures to an App called SonicPics. Each child, as Director for a set of pictures, selects pictures to show and narrates what the others were doing, to create a short presentation showing a way to be someone’s friend.
The children truly enjoy taking the photographs and narrating their presentations.
This is an activity where the kids are divided into groups, and each group (3 or 4 kids) gets a (still) camera. They have to discuss among themselves what a friend is, how to keep friends, and how can you show you are someone’s friend. They then plan an acting scene around the theme of “A Friendly Situation.” Once that has been planned, one directs and the others act out the situation, while the Director takes pictures of their acting. We rotate the job of Director/photographer so that everyone on each team gets to do it.
After that, we upload the pictures to an App called SonicPics. Each child, as Director for a set of pictures, selects pictures to show and narrates what the others were doing, to create a short presentation showing a way to be someone’s friend.
The children truly enjoy taking the photographs and narrating their presentations.
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