Shivin and Jared's iExplore Sharks Learning Story

Learners: Shivin & Jared    Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 5.8.15

Learning Area: iExplore - Sharks

Learning Observed

Shivin & Jared chose to work together on a research based iExplore learning adventure on Sharks. They did all aspects of the project together, including research, populating the Google Slide presentation, adding links, getting feedback and acting on it. Both boys were very excited to be able to share their progress on a regular basis, often bringing it to me to see every day until it was completed. They had an opportunity to show their presentation to a group of learners who offered ideas to improve it as well as compliments. We had a discussion about what it means to copy and paste information from the internet, straight into a presentation and how this is called Plagiarism. Shivin and Jared were both interested to know about how we should reword the learning we find online and give credit to the original authors. When viewing other learners iExplore practice presentations, Shivin, particularly, has been sure to share this new learning as feedback.

Evidence of learning

Shivin and Jared’s Sharks Presentation after some improvement based on feedback from learners and Mrs Dillner.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Shivin and Jared have had a shared vision from the start and worked collaboratively to achieve this. They have needed some guidance along the way so far, but have accepted this happily and put it into action quickly (Participating & Contributing). They have identified that there are many different species of sharks and have made connections between them when possible. Shivin and Jared have also added in a variety of links to other sites in order to try and support these connections (Thinking). The largest driver of this learning adventure has been their enormous sense of curiosity. Jared and Shivin have wanted to spend as much time on this presentation as they can, even asking to stay in during iBreaks to work on it (Managing Self).

Next Learning Steps

Work on using correct sentence structures. Take some time to analyse the visual features of the presentation e.g. colours and layout. Change these to achieve higher audience engagement. Present the final product to their Hapu Group.