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Creativity, Technology& Authentic Assessments

1. Introduction

My grade 3 story

2a. How are you using ICT in your class?

1. Collect info

2. Organise info

3. Share info

1. Collaborate

2. Create

3. Communicate

2b. What do teachers want?

1. Wish and want lists (software / hardware)

2. PD (now how do I use it?)

Effective?

3. Creativity & Curriculum

What is creativity?

What can creativity do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdlBJ-q-4JE

  • Intelligence + Creativity = New Capacities (for problem solving, products and questions)
  • Knowledge is abundant, creativity is scarce
  • Intellectually engaging, purpose, energy and interactive tension with others
  • Variety to express their understanding through real world and authentic problems

4a. Assessment Examples

Grade 4 - Our Host Culture Is Unique

(an investigation into why Japan is unique)

Activity: You work for a travel agency and wish for more tourists to visit Japan. You wish to highlight cultural activities in your campaign. Select an aspect of Japanese culture you would like to highlight and choose a method below to promote or advertise it. Think about who your target audience are and how this will affect your presentation. State locales for viewing, accommodation options and budgeting information for tourists.

How can your students present?

Presentation Choices:

  • A comic (ComicLife) to attract younger visitors and Manga fans
  • A brochure (Word or Pages)
  • A TV commercial (iMovie using video and/or still photos with narration)
  • A radio commercial (GarageBand)
  • A PowerPoint/Keynote address (include multimedia with mp3s and/or video)
  • A book/brochure/poster created by you using art materials

You will need to create a timeline plan outlining your goals and due dates, create and present your campaign to the class and then report/summarize/reflect on the choices you made as well as on your presentation

2.0 Opportunities:

  • Create a wiki to share and present research - This wiki could be used for new families entering the school and built up each year (and probably followed by past students which leads to ongoing learning)
  • Email / Fax / Skype travel offices, Ministry of Tourism officials, other schools, families
  • Create a posterous site for people to email you pictures, comments, stories
  • Make your students' creations public - post them, send / mail them, embed them

Grade 2 - Leading a Balanced Lifestyle Helps Us Stay Healthy

(An inquiry into personal hygiene, fitness, nutrition and relaxation)

Activity:

The canteen and school nurse need your help. They wish to raise awareness on healthy lifestyles within the entire school. Healthy lifestyles include personal hygiene, nutrition, fitness and relaxation. They need Grade 2 to create posters to put on display throughout the school. Choose 1 of the elements from above to focus on, or try to include all 4 if you wish. It’s up to you. Your poster needs to look attractive (consider colour, font, font size, etc.). It must be organized. It must have a planned layout, be neat and include the necessary health information. Your posters will be put on display. What is needed for a successful poster campaign? Look through some magazines for ideas. Some may also be copied and sent to the local hospital to be put on display.

Students could generate posters by hand, use pictures from magazines, use IT for text and/or pics, or use software such as KidPix, Kidspiration, ComicLife, Word, etc., to generate their entire poster. Combinations of applications may also be used. Other online opportunities could be with Glogster, Voki (a speaking widget), Vokaroo (audio recorder), and of course, film and video could also be used.

Grade K - Water is a Limited Resource

(an inquiry into the changing state of water, the supply of water, where water comes from and where it goes, how we use water and the impact on the environment)

Activity:

The school library has asked the K classes to create a movie explaining ‘Water.’ They need it so future students and classes can study and learn more about it.

Using KidPix, each student will need to draw and write about one area of water. You may also insert photographs if you wish. This will be a whole class activity. You will need to discuss, plan (storyboard) and use teamwork to complete this activity. When complete, the movie will be placed in the library for other students to sign out. Your work should be planned, look attractive and have the necessary information. The information that needs to be included are:

  • Title page
  • Where water comes from
  • Where water goes
  • The changing state of water (liquid, gas, solid)
  • Different ways we use water (maybe you could also use Kidspiration)
  • How water affects the environment

Choose a topic that interests you.

When all the pages are finished, the whole class will create 1 final slideshow which will then be turned into a Quicktime movie.

*this activity could also be placed on YouTube/TeacherTube as a resource or even sent to your local water treatment center

Online Option: Drawings or photos could be inserted into VoiceThread and students could simply narrate. Draw pictures and import them into iMovie and have students add voiceovers.

Some assessment activities that can be included with almost any unit are:

  • A neat and bright poster
  • A well organised brochure
  • A story (picture book, comic, graphic novel, chapter book etc.)
  • A letter to the editor
  • An article for a magazine
  • A photo essay (with digital photos or ones drawn by hand)
  • A skit
  • A long poem
  • A video advertisement, radio commercial or tutorial video/resource
  • A blog, wiki or podcast

Show what you know by teaching someone else

  • What's essential to include on all formats?
  • Be explicit: model, share, guide and apply
  • Display timeline and due dates
  • Project manage the class
  • Ask students to choose different format for next unit
  • Students will eventually use all software
  • Build student experts in class
  • Biggest teacher hurdle is management, not IT
  • Ask yourself what you love to teach and start there
  • Don't start with a tool. Where do your students struggle? Then select your tool.

4b. Student Examples?

5. What about technology skills?

Where are they?

  • embedded into projects
  • don't bolt technology onto the curriculum
  • no need for checklists

go to the wiki to try some 2.0 tools

http://software-creativity.pbwiki.com/

6. Conclusion

"Creativity is developed through

intellectual engagement, purpose,

energy and interactive tension with

others."

"The goal is no longer about technical mastery. It is about creating environments where technology can assist children's learning, regardless of a teacher's technical skill."

What can teachers do?

  • Teachers need to lead by example. Use the tools in your class.
  • Best uses for the tools come from the users - allow the students to experiment & learn - what are the early adopters doing with it? Select the things doing well and then help them scale up.
  • Build class experts.
  • Don't treat ICT and Web 2.0 as an add-on or 'fun to try' activity.
  • Encourage items to be placed on the web for authentic feedback.
  • Don't fear too much. Start small, set goals for yourself by learning a new tool once a month etc.

What's in the future?

  • Find info
  • Validate info and make sense of it
  • RSS
  • Post and contribute to the web

Isn't that future now?

Cannot force creativity, only nurture it.

Pedagogy first, tools second.

http://frankcurkovic.edublogs.org

- Dr. Alan November

- Sir Ken Robinson

Creativity 2.0

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