Congratulations to Jaye Richards on winning the recent Visualiser Forum sponsored competition on Ewan McIntosh's excellent Edu Blog.
Jaye Richards' short but sweet winning idea:
"I saw these being used in Finland where there was one in every classroom in the schools I visited. I think though, that I would use it for pupils to do regular show and tell/ mini teaching sessions where they came up and demonstrated something or described a concept using their own objects or designs. I think this is a great way of encouraging real literacy and raising the confidence and self-esteem of our pupils. This approach also encourages deep learning and helps the pupils to take on the responsibility for their own lerning, and that of others. It takes peer-assisted learning to a new dimension."
Ewan was also kind enough to share a link where John Davitt demonstrates a visualiser with some style in his recent BLC08 keynote.
Jaye Richards' short but sweet winning idea:
"I saw these being used in Finland where there was one in every classroom in the schools I visited. I think though, that I would use it for pupils to do regular show and tell/ mini teaching sessions where they came up and demonstrated something or described a concept using their own objects or designs. I think this is a great way of encouraging real literacy and raising the confidence and self-esteem of our pupils. This approach also encourages deep learning and helps the pupils to take on the responsibility for their own lerning, and that of others. It takes peer-assisted learning to a new dimension."
Ewan was also kind enough to share a link where John Davitt demonstrates a visualiser with some style in his recent BLC08 keynote.
