Classroom Chronicles is a blog by Henrietta Miller, a Year 6 teacher in Australia. Her blog discusses and showcases changes in education to engage students in learning though technology. The first post,"Reflective Students," outlines the importance of her students' reflections on their Choose Your Own Adventure assignment. "AECP2014 - Now It's Personal" discusses main ideas presented at a technology education conference she attended.
Reflective Students
In her post "Reflective Students," Miller explains that she has been using the practice of reflective learning in her “Choose Your Own Adventure” project that her students are working. In this project, her Year 6 students periodically write one chapter of a fiction story that they created and post it to their blog. At the end of each chapter, the students provide three options of what could happen next in the story and their classmates can vote on an option by commenting with their choice. At the end of this project, Miller asked students to reflect on the assignment. She found that her students thoroughly enjoyed the project and devoted time to create, improve, and ultimately better their writing skills. As Miller says, “Students writing, students reflecting, students learning, students improving. Who could ask for anything more.” In my comment, I said that I wished I could have had this assignment in school and hope use something similar to it once I am a teacher.
AECP2014 - Now It's Personal
"AECP2014 - Now It's Personal" summarizes Miller’s reflections on the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACEC) conference she recently attended. At the conference she was awarded a NGS Super Scholarship to expand her interest and research in student writing through technology and networking. She discusses two thought-provoking points made at the conference: 1) Students need to learn code and use the right software and 2) Students are inspired by powerful storytelling. Miller states that students must be prepared for future careers such as computer science and that they must have practice now with real world application programs. Storytelling and personal narratives must be used to engage students in the subject being taught, whether the storytelling is done through student writing or digital stories created by teachers. Storytelling helps students and the teacher to connect and share with each other. In my comment, I mentioned how I am learning how to use many real application programs in EDM 310 that will help me as an educator. I also mentioned how intrigued I was by using storytelling as a teaching strategy. Looking back on my own primary school experience, I rarely was ever able to write narratives but I think it is a great way to engage students in their writing.
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