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Year 6 – Working with Clips

Brad TyrrellJune 28, 2021August 31, 2021
Michael Campbell teaches across a number of disciplines at Scotch College and is keen to encourage his students to transform their learning experiences using creative approaches across each of the learning areas of Science, Mathematics and Physical Education. Michael uses Clips with his class to create instructional videos and for the students to create and share their learning. Students can redefine their learning by using multiple environments and spaces to leverage deeper learning within each subject area. The ease and functionality of the Clips app enables students to achieve a creatively published video in a short period of time.      
2 years ago

Year 6 – Mathematics Angles Keynote Scaffold

Brad TyrrellJune 25, 2021June 25, 2021
    As a Middle School Mathematics teacher, Tyson Waterman’s classes have been largely dependent upon the more traditional paper and pencil options to study and consolidate mathematical understandings. However, through the use of a Keynote scaffold, Tyson challenged his students to take mathematical concepts into authentic learning situations by challenging the students to go mobile with their devices to find angles in their environment. The students worked collaboratively to identify different shapes and angles and to audio and photo record and use the Apple Pencil functionality to annotate their images. The task was open-ended enough to…
2 years ago

Year 6 – Mathematics Dictionaries

Brad TyrrellJune 21, 2021June 23, 2021
  As a Middle and Senior School Maths specialist, Sophie Berry has redefined her approach to teaching and learning with iPad by identifying the possibilities for consolidating student understandings through the use of a multi-modal maths dictionary.  Ultilising a Keynote scaffold, the students completed their understandings of keywords from maths lessons by using audio, screen recording and video to share their comprehension of the steps needed for each of the concept areas.  Distributing this through Classwork allowed Sophie to collaborate in real time with the students and feedback on misunderstandings and misconceptions of the concepts.  As a personalised task, the students…
2 years ago
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