15/8: PD - Technology within PE with Julie

PD: Technology within PE with Julie
Howick College Visit

15th August 2016

Today I spent the morning at Howick College with Julie Breen. The main aim for this morning's PD was to gain help on how to use technology within the class. Not only did I enjoy my time there but found that I have come away with some points to think about and some ideas to trial. Below are some notes I took while at Howick:

Key points:

• Technology needs to be used with a purpose – don’t just use it because it’s there
• Reflection - Noticing the difference or impact between new school and old school - is new school more effective?

Ideas:

• Set up a padlet or blendspace for different NCEA standards – all content in one place 
• Copy of the class padlet (padlet settings – grid/freedom)
• Students can add to padlet by introducing new posts/ videos that aren’t displayed until moderated by teacher
• Base copy that each class starts with at the beginning of each year 
• Padlet of class contract at the beginning of the year – photo of the class as the background
•  Drugfreeworld.org posters
• Use of backchat (interactive questions that presenter can see etc) when doing PowerPoint – Google Slides
• Use of padlets for students to ask questions they would like to find out within a unit
• Use of padlets for students to look at multiple articles (scoop it) and write a reflection
• This can be used in classroom debates
• Multiple summaries and reflections of articles in which students could use when writing their assessments
• Looking at articles taking into consideration others points of view

What I’ve seen:

• Year 9 class focusing on dance/movement – reflection on Schoology in regards to lesson & unit objectives through set questions
• Unit criteria on the board for students to clearly see
• A question including lesson aim under criteria on the board
• Students finished finalizing dance and then had to teach another group
• Groups then had to assess how well each group did in a dance and teaching in regards to criteria that was introduced before dance was created
• After teaching each other students needed to grade other groups in relation to the criteria – this could be seen and also helps to link to unit objectives
• Year 12 using class padlet to find information on short and long term effects of exercise
• In expert groups looking at the 4 categories of energy systems, respiratory, muscular, cardiovascular
• Jigsaw – become an expert on your topic and teach others
• Aiming for this class to become more responsible for their own learning
• 2 year 10 classes learning the same thing but taught completely different
• 1 class lecture type style – teacher talking, pictures on the board, asking students to answer questions
• 1 class using PowerPoint with videos and GIFs
• Year 12 class Kahoot to recap knowledge and introduce new learning for this lesson
• Sometimes likes to use socrative more than Kahoot as some students focus more on reaction times rather than the correct answers
• Then use of padlet, schoology and course booklets to help answer the questions (can count as an exercise log)
• Questions are broken down to allow for Excellence answers if all questions answered properly