Another week of learning tricks and tips as well as useful tools that can be used to enhance the learning experiences whilst using digital technology.
Providing our learners with the opportunity to create and demonstrate their understanding of concepts learnt is a great use of the many apps through the digital platforms.
Being creative is something that is naturally found in our ākonga and somehow we stifle that creativity by following generic art or activities that have a pre determined outcome. I do wonder whether teachers have, potentially sub consciously, gone down the road of searching for tasks instead of being creative themselves because of the hecticness and the busyness of our profession. We need to be brave and allow our children (and ourselves) to be creators, provide them with opportunities to take risks and showcase what they are capable of.
Digital platforms provide an exciting opportunity to be creative. The breakout session - pick a path - allowed us to be creative, we had our brief but what the final look and outcomes was all us. Not one presentation was the same as the creative process was all that of the individual.
As has been mentioned, we need to provide opportunities to create so it allows for creative and critical thinking to be a driver of engagement and that our tamariki are the creators of content not just consumers of it.
Kia ora rā,
ReplyDeleteCreate to learn is one of the best ways to learn for our ākonga (and adults),and we need to provide more opportunities for this to happen. So I agree 100% with your thoughts around this.
I look forward to catching up with you during the data session.
Ngā mihi anō
Nā Makaore