So now it is time to put my money where my mouth is. I am going to make this project happen! As noted in a previous blog post, I am looking to start a space where students can create content for other kids from around world to help students understand key concepts that are being explained.
So therefore I give you 25 students from my class who are keen to create content for you to use with your kids next term. I will aim to have them complete the content by the end of this term so that you can use easily and seamlessly next term.
On another note, my class is investigating Space next term and I would love it if any of your kids could create content to help my kids understand key areas. They would love to have your kids add value to our learning environment and seek input from outside of the boundaries of our four walls.
Drop me an email at ashleyproud@gmail.com or leave a comment on this blog if you are interested in making this happen. I think that it is an exciting opportunity for students around our world to interact and communicate with each other
Ok people, I have a confession to make – My name is Ashley and I love sharing knowledge with others and having people share my knowledge with me. Now that we have gotten that out of the way, I was reflecting on this notion today.
People who know me know that I love to hear stories. I love it when somebody shares something that they are doing in their classroom. Even if I don’t think it ‘adds value’ to my life, it is still fun to hear. I am also an ‘idea manipulator’. I will see or hear about an idea that somebody else is implementing with their kids and modify it to suit my needs.
But my question is do we have a moral and professional obligation to share? I know that some people find this very difficult. I feel that as educators we do. We should be sharing out wealth of knowledge and resources to aid the wider educational community to have kids do great things.
I would be interested to hear people’s thoughts on this.
This is a blog that I posted on my employers internal blogging service. I thought that I would share it with my wider PLN community to get your thoughts on my idea as well. This could work people – how awesome would it to be to have a kid sitting in a class in China using a resource that a kid in Australia has created to help them with their learning. I know I mention some specific tools that my employer provides but it should be easy enough to get going outside of my walled garden. Kind of like a Kahn Academy but student driven. Anyway, here it is…..
As I was being a diligent husband and hanging out the washing this morning, a thought came into my head. As this thought took up a lot of brainpower, I didn’t have a lot of space left to think about much else and it kind of consumed my thought processes. It was a beautiful day outside and I was totally consumed by this notion.
So what was it you asked? I was thinking about the new Learning Place and virtual spaces and how I could use them. As you all know I am a huge fan of Alan November and his work around student created learning experiences and my man Eric Marcos from Mathtraintv. My big catch phrase that I have been spouting out lately is ‘It’s all about the community of we, not the community of me!’ For some reason that got stuck in my head and an idea popped it. It doesn’t happen very often and it was an exciting experience.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if kids could make videos on a range of educational topics that they were interested in? Staff could add their ideas up to a common sharing place from around Queensland and kids (I know mine would) could create / research resources that could be used in classrooms to help other kids understand stuff? I know my kids would be keen to do this and it should be pretty easy in the new version of Learning Place to make this happen.
So does anybody else see value in this or is it just me dreaming up crazy stuff that will never work?
