This is the end post, which has focused on delivering IST in Year 9 : Topic : Databases
If you check out my bloglines, you will find all the work done by my year 9 class during a 10 week period in this topic. The purpose is to show how I’ve implemented Classroom2.0 for students and hope that it might give others an idea of how Classroom 2.0 can enhance the classroom.
The topic, Databases I have previously found a little dull (and so did students), so this term I have attempted to rethink what databases are to kids and how they interact with them to gain knowledge or to function in the world around them.
Below is an example of the last task required of the students.
This is a video response to a Social and Ethical issue in database use in out society. I posed to students a proposal that DNA should be used to determine who is allowed to study academic subjects in school, and who should be set aside. All student behaviors, failure and general performance should be continually monitored and information fed back to the beginning of learning, to ensure that the ‘bad apples’ are weeded out.
This is one of the responses made. This is filmed using an iMac with iSight. The student brief was to work on a speech that they would give to the government to comment on the proposal.
As I end the second term of Classroom 2.0, I feel confident that students are now well able to spend class time talking and learning about … and that they are well able to produce this kind of ‘tech’ work in short time at lunch, recess or after school.
So if you are a teacher who is spending hours in class trying to get students to ‘make’, then Classroom 2.0 methods are worth looking at. It is very hard IMO to get a hole class to follow (puppy dog) you from the start of a project to the end when teaching ’skills’.
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