As an aid in our collegial learning, we use “Experience Learning Spiral”. It is easy to quickly get into “doing” without first stopping to set aside time for reflection where my and others’ experiences is the starting point. Conclusions/lessons form…
Memory training part 3
After a week with two lessons of repetition on the photosynthesis and a 60 % score on the test the week after I decided to let it go and start the next subject. The students wanted to go forward with…
Car Pool Database with Manipulatives
(See background post “Manipulatives“) When it comes to relational databases I find that almost all of my students, at some point, really struggle to understand how a database management system works. How does it look up the needed information across all those connected tables?…
Questions tags with manipulatives
(See background post “Manipulatives“) Last time when I introduced question tags to my English class I started the lesson with my students taking notes of a video I found on YouTube: Theo, the guy in the video, gives an excellent introduction to this…
Videofeedback with Jing
Feedback is mentioned as one of the most effective learning strategies in the studies of John Hattie and Robert Marzano. It is crucial for the learning process to give the students a response how his knowledge and competences have been…
Memory training practise continuation
Photosynthesis After the first tryout with Carl von Linne, and a promising first resultat, I moved along to the next field in biology and chose photosynthesis as next memory aspect. According to the author Mattias Ribbing, in his book Vägen till…
Formative Feedback with Socrative
Socrative is a cloud-based student response system developed in 2010 by Boston-based graduate school students. It allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on laptops – or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their own…
The start of my memory training practise in class.
In september 2013 I started memorytraining as a part of the regular biology schedule. I had read a book, Vägen till mästarminne: förändra ditt liv med kraftfull minnesträning by Mattias Ribbing, on how to improve and develop a master memory. The…
Learning conversations.
One method that we frequently use with our students, but also at our meetings is the ”learning conversation.” This method helps us to maintain focus, ensures that everyone can be heard and that everyone gets the same amount of speaking…
Mobile Device Management
Staatliche Realschule Geisenfeld chose TabPilot.com to manage their Google Nexus 10 tablets. It is an android tablet manager that allows teachers to lock down a whole group of tablets by choosing the specific apps that students may access during class. Students…