Hello everyone, welcome to another Blog Post. Today's discussion is on Indigenous Education, we will be discussing the Tsuut'ina Nation Elementary School, Chiila Elementary School, their mission statement and vision, the values they teach students and how they communicate with parents in their community.
So recently I have been working on ways to incorporate the coding tool called Scratch into lesson planning. Scratch has plenty of games and creations made by hundreds of users all for free. Scratch provides students with an easy entrance into coding using a "Blueprint System" which is exactly what it sounds like, students can visually see the code as it happens.
For the recent lesson plan I have developed I incorporated a game with polynomials work as a form of review for the class. I want to strive away from only paper and pencil review when I can, and I feel this game on Scratch gives that opportunity for myself and for students. Students will be encouraged to play the game if they wish, and we'll be opening the chance for students to participate in a friendly competition with others with a low stakes prize. The goal of the lesson is for students to review so giving students different opportunities of review is an essential tool in my opinion.
Blooket was a blast to play around with and to learn. I had fun learning how to manage and create questions in a game-like format for review. I'm looking forward to hearing the feedback me and my group will receive. It was an interesting experience seeing how much the curriculum has changed for even Grade 4s, since I was in Grade 4. Blooket is interesting by providing games for studying, however I received a feedback comment that I must say left me puzzled. That was in regards to how students would place value on the task? How many students would value the task as review and how many would value it as they would any other game. I believe that setting the ground rules ahead of time and establishing the use of Blooket as a tool for review is valuable, since it even provides answers. I think it works best as a review tool, since it provides correct answers for incorrect answers, however to that same extent the question must be asked of how much of the tool is for actual review and how much is memorization, similar questions though must be raised for tools like Kahoot and a Class Jeopardy.
Throughout this educating course on the perspectives of integrating technology is how beneficial it can be. I used to have a very rigid...
