Thoughts about Educational Computing from a secondary school Computing teacher.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Torbay RTC: Tackling Literacy with iLife
Live blog from #torbayrtc
Key goals:
Get visitors to learn something (teachers and pupils)
Make visitors want to learn
Give as many different learning styles a chance to learn as possible
create exciting learning environment
Develop partnerships
Sustainability
Describing a project involving 30 "excitable" Year 5 pupils and their teacher. Project wrote a rap about literacy. The original idea was to get the pupils into a studio and record the rap. Extended by getting students to create a backing track in Garageband. The class produced fifteen backing tracks and had an X Factor vote to choose the best. The next step was to storyboard and produce videos. The project took place over five weeks. The students edited the video:
The Rose Report says that their should be more emphasis on performing and visual arts. The presenter said, "They are speaking our language".
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