Sharing a snapshot of this week's Distance Learning in LS2...

Today I want to share some of the amazing distance learning work my students have been doing this week to keep their learning going. Last week I started to include a sharing time during our Google Meets to celebrate hard work. I didn't only choose the 'best' work, I chose work that showed me a huge effort had been put into the task. What I didn't expect was daily emails from my learners asking if they could share work they felt they had done well. The next step was easy... we extended the sharing time each day. 

Student engagement in distance learning in LS2 has been huge. We meet each morning to set ourselves up for success and have a catch up. I have learnt over the weeks what type of work gets buy-in and what doesn't. To keep the motivation going this I asked my learners what type of learning tasks did they wanted me to set. Apparently 'Reading' and 'Writing' is not 'fun' at home so I very quickly adapted my thinking and disguised both of these curriculum areas within the very popular request of 'Research'. A direct result of that has been that I have been kept very busy giving feedback and feed forward. The rich conversations in the comments tool in g-suite paint a very clear picture of the learning journey we have all been on as we try hard to keep our learning going.

All the work shared below is being shared with permission from my awesome class:

Chris' blog

Liletina's blog         Juel's blog

Fau's blog              Liletina's blog

Sulia's blog

    Florence's blog        Victoria's blog

Matthew's blog.     Ong's blog.      

Kahoot challenges linked to our learning

Karlos' blog

Sharing our learning...

This week I took a group of year 7/8 students to Tamaki College to share their learning with some of the Tamaki College students. These boys did such an amazing job of sharing their google draw skills. As their teacher I was so incredibly proud to see them shining as they lead the learning and explained the instructions so clearly and confidently. A huge thank you to Mrs Pameka and Ms Apelu for giving us this opportunity, and to Mrs Hamer for inviting us into her classroom and for joining in the lesson.

Here are the links to the boys blog posts: Jack Sanujan Alex

 Jack explaining the skills he was teaching

Sanujan helping Mrs Hamer

  Jack explaining sharing some of his work with Mrs Pameka and Ms Apelu

  Alex explaining the skills he was teaching

Engaged learners

Team photo

Meeting our Global Audience

This week we welcomed Gian Paolo and Gabriela to LS2. Gian Paolo is a teacher in Zurich who is on a sabbatical in New Zealand from the KV ZH Business School to compare the education systems in NZ with those in Switzerland. It was very exciting to not only meet some of our global audience, but to also have the opportunity to show Learn-Create-Share in action. Ofa and Sanujan shared their blogs and took them on a tour of our LS2 site and shared how they access the learning. Both Kiri and I were very proud of how confidently our students talked about the learn-create-share process and the importance of being cybersmart.