Interactive Fiction by Y9 Students

As one of our short elective activities during Advisory time, a group of 9 students and I have been studying and writing Interactive Fiction for a few hours. This is their masterpiece, written during our fourth and final class together: J.B. Priestley's "An Inspector Calls" didn't have to happen the way it did... Not if …

Interactive Fiction Test – Twine and Slides

http://twinery.org/2/#!/stories/45d94401-b373-4e5c-80b6-bb360e5d0b59/play  

Reframing a Project – Open Letters

[here's a shortcut to the student work I'm discussing in this] I think I often end up as a "reframer" - looking for ways to make our MYP assessments more engaging or creative or authentic for students with small conceptual changes which shift the perspective just a bit. My go-to methods are usually trying to …

Bangkok Urban Hiking

We just went on our 10th Bangkok Urban Hike today, and I hadn't thought much about it before but in retrospect I'm kind of proud of planning that many walks. https://www.meetup.com/Bangkok-Urban-Hiking-Meetup Then I remembered that 2 of those 10 were the same walks, but in reverse. Oh well. So, 8 walks. My personal criteria for …

😀 – Emoji as Evidence of Student Learning in MYP Individuals & Societies

Can you read this? ⪫👑 ▼🌎🗻℄＝🌄🌆 🔰☀📬⚔👪⇰🌲👧👫⛺⾕ 💪⚔❤☮💬👍👥👑🏪🌾👞 or 🐪+🐑👑⎚♚✋🌄🌆😡💂▲😵🙏🌞9👑📝👑🚯👐📚←👑⚔🌎👐💰9👑💪🌄🌆🔨💪🔨🌱🌊 🚢🇪🇸💂🌍🏰①532🌗👑😲➤💰💰🌗👑😵🇪🇸💂👞🌄🌆⚔🔫🐎💰🚢🏰😷➤😲↓🌎 ↓🌎👪😷➤😲🇪🇸💂🚢🌍🏰💰💰👊👬↓🌎Viceroyalty🌄🌆①9⑪👷🔍▲ Or maybe this? 🔏a🍫🍠🍅🌽,🍦😘ta🚪🚢→🔏a,🐴🔫⚔🌲🐑+🐫😷😷😷😡😡😡,⛪⛪😵😵😵💰💰💰💰🚢→🏰😄😄😄 (English "translations" will be revealed later)   I'd like to share the story of a short assignment we did in recently in Individuals & Societies class. It was a very simple assignment, but the way the students responded to …

Strong Emotions about TOK

I started the year feeling slightly worried about IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK). This is the first semester I've been incorporating some of the recent changes to the program, including the addition of "Indigenous Knowledge Systems", a new Area of Knowledge (AOK) which I felt strangely uncomfortable about or perturbed by upon first hearing of it. I've spent …

Fieldwork and Classwork

I've been extremely impressed by the variety of uses we've already found for the iPads in a very short time, and by how meaningful and constructive those uses have been. I don't have a lot to say that wasn't covered by Rebekah's excellent post, but here are a few Vines of the 7th graders (and a …

Vines in the Classroom

One new way I've been trying to document what's happening in the classroom is by taking short videos with the Vine app for iOS. The results are not always pretty, but I think they're interesting. For example, here's what happens when a 6th grader gets hold of an iPad connected to the projector: Here are some …

Single-Use Google Site

What we did Long story short: our class made a Google Site that we only intended to use as a place to display some formative work for one or two days. Our Grade 6 English unit on "The Press" involves having students write imaginary news articles (the only limitation on their content was that they had to …

Truncated Pecha Kucha

What we did Another short post just to share something which I thought was unexpectedly successful: I had G7 Humanities students present short reports on inventions from the Industrial Revolution in the form of a half Pecha Kucha, that is, 10 slides which they discussed for only 20 seconds each. Why we did it I …