Developing in Digital Worlds - session 1

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 PLC facilitated by Jacinta Oldehaver.

I have come away with much food for thought and ideas.
A prompt we were given for homework was considering the prompt above re pets being allowed on transport.
Come prepared to share one thing you worked on/added/modified/refined/evaluated/substantiated with this discussion board starter!
So I was thinking how this could work in a junior class. A hook could be teacher in role - maybe having a discussion on the phone about the decision, or talking to her friend with one person being supportive of it and the other person not thinking it's a good idea.
We could then go on to discuss what we saw/heard and share our thoughts and opinions using some of the 'Now What?' prompts from Jacinta's slide (above). We could start chats on Seesaw using the voice comment feature. We could experiment with Flipgrid and maybe Padlet (video feature) to record our opinions.
Such an activity could be extended further :
Maths - space on the train - how many dogs could fit? type problems. Statistics - survey people to get their opinion - would they take a dog on the train..? is this a good idea?
Literacy - rules for animals on trains, information for dog owners, letters to council, signs, interviews..
AND how can this task weave across into the PLD you are currently doing in your schools?
Science - communicating and participating...
A recent PD session with our Science/STEM facilitator, Susan Heeps, gave me much to think about in this area. She was discussing how critique (of ourselves and others) is central to our learning and developing ideas - it's what pushes us forward. Science is about observations and descriptions. We use what we observe to explain our ideas. We investigate our questions. We use evidence to answer our questions. We argue from evidence, it's not laden with emotion.
This is the sort of thinking that would support
What skills can transfer across multiple learning scenarios in your own classroom or context? AND how do we link inter/intra personal skills in the text and task?
Listening and speaking to one another, participating and contributing.


Below is our initial effort using a new tool (to us) Flipgrid:

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