ICT to make learning more complex.....

here's a synopsis of some of the research results undertaken by the then team of Pukerua Bay Kindergarten into ICT, teaching and learning. These are the signposts the kindergarten identified as common behaviours in their learning stories showing some ICT inclusion in some part of each episode as contributing to better learning outcomes.... a result not to be sneezed at. Self review with qualitative data....

children's voices......

This clip is a few years old now- but I uploaded it for a number of reasons. Chrissie was working with the Foundation for the blind and is an extremely talented educator to support visually impaired children and adults. She is very innovative and reflective about what works for the learners in question. The Kindergarten she talks about is one I know well ( having been there when she discovered voice thread) and we as a team rose to her challenge to use ICT to give the kindergarten child a voice as well as her extended family and support network. Not only did this child have a blog where all the players could view interpreted data and primary data and put their own lens of interest on it... but the voice thread tool let them articulate it with audio, video or text so the learner could be engaged. I wish I could show you the voice threads themselves but I don't have permission for this. Here's a demo of the tool to see what I mean about using it for multiple assessment opportunities..... if you want to take a peek click on the coloured text to check it out