I must be a very visual and tactile learner. Today's 'Creativity' focus was fabulous and right up my street!!! I have found over the year's that the children love creating responses to their learning in so many different ways and today I learned of a whole lot more to inspire my children.
I really enjoyed having my belief in combining the sciences/technology with the Arts confirmed so articulately. It encourages 'social innovation' which is so relevant and important to our society right now and going forward. Being creative allows one to think deeply and laterally in new ways.
Once again the visuals of this chart inspire me to make sure I include a variety of ways to encourage learners to be creative. Often, I will include the mode that is my strength and not focus on the others, which could easily be strengths of learners in my class.
Oh my goodness! I can't wait to try some of these out. I have used screencast before but would like to look at 'Storyboard That' and 'Book Creator.' Great tools to encourage creative responses.
Once again a very simple way to envisage designing two equally important and relevant creative responses to texts. The words say it all - 'tighter' being more presecriptive and 'looser' transferring new and deeper creativity involving collaboration and choice to the learner. Offering both of these options would/should meet the needs of most of the class.
I enjoyed the 'Book Trailer' session with Fiona too as I can see the creative learning, collaboration and enjoyment that can be had using this hands on tool. Everyone likes to 'make a movie.' It's a great way of encouraging those children to whom reading is not a strength, to have a go at sharing the merits of a story in a different way.
In being more creative, one is more likely to be engaged in one's learning - this is what I am taking away from today's learning. thank you Naomi, Kiri and Fiona.
Hi Justine, great to hear you found todays session to be so affirming. I too like to make sure I am including all the 'mode' for creativity and communication, so that my learners get exposed to as many different skill sets as possible. I hope you get a chance to do the book trailer with your class, I'm sure that they will be great at it! Catch up soon. Kiri
ReplyDeleteKia ora Justine
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your many positive reflections from RPI Day 7: Creating. It’s great to read that the focus on creativity was so inspiring for you and that you also “learned a whole lot more to inspire my children”!
I can just hear your enthusiasm about the new tools that you plan to try out like “Storyboard That!” and Book Creator. Having used both these in my own classrooms, I can fully attest to their affordances for deep student engagement (in service of learning) and in terms of students being so proud of their final product. These tools work in such a way that the rendered storyboards are of such high quality too.
We are really looking forward to seeing the results of your own ‘tighter’ stencil design too, when next we meet. Only one more day to go!
All the best with your coaching meetings with Kiri.
Nga mihi
Naomi R.
Literacy Facilitator - Manaiakalani Reading Practice Intensive