Wednesday, 16 March 2016

BlogTYD



Dis alweer tyd vir ‘n blog, die 5de ene, op die warme Woensdag middag
Hie is wee ‘n foto van my hond Milo Charles. Hy lyk nog altyd dieselfde.


Ek het die artikel gelees deur Abby Willis. Ek het die evolusie van die klaskamer se atmosfeer interesting gevind. Die volgende het vir my uitgestaan.

“it’s the journey, not the destination”
“novelty led to curiosity”
“the mundane was transformed into a simple exercise of mindful movement and peer cooperation”
“reflect on how to classroom felt different”
“Not a drag.”
“attuned to my students”
“our time together began with a sense of ease”
“A habit of mindfulness”
“before the theme began to wear thin, I changed course”
“preparing the room mindfully became a part of our class culture”
“I simply observed and did not give in to the impulse to manage”
“their behaviour was self-limited by natural consequences”

Hoe kan ek my klaskamer n veilige groenhuis vir persoonlike groei maak. Anina Kemp sȇ die volgende
Eerstens moet mens na jouself as onderwyser kyk en 'n paar vrae vir jouself afvra:

Wie is ek en hoe kom ek voor vir die leerders? Is ek toeganklik, vriendelik? Boesem ek vertroue in? Hoe praat ek met die leerders? Moedig ek hulle aan om hul opinie te lig/vrae te vra? Weet die leerders ek gee om? “

Wie is ek is ‘n moeilike vraag. Hoopelik is ek volgende jaar ‘n onderwyser. Ek weet nie hoe ek in my leerders se oe sal voorkom nie. Ek voel ek is approachable en ek probeer altyd om vriendelik te wees somtyds tot my nadeel. Hoe ek met my leerders praat hang af van waarmee hulle gemaklik is. Ek moedig altyd die rondom my aan om hulle opinies te lig al moet ek selfs dan maar by tye my vingers byt as ek hoor die strooi wat hulle uit vomit. Of die leerders weet of ek omgee sal hulle seker met tyd en oor die weke agterkom afhangende van my interaksie met hulle en hulle met my.
Op die einde van die dag moet ek ma net met geloof en genade in die ding in gaan en hoop vir die beste.

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

ngumququzeleli zokufunda (got this from Googletransl)



Die saak staan so dat ek mos nou die ding gelees het nie en die video onthou ek nog van die dag to hulle mos geprotest het en my oebolle dwaal nou al independently van mekaar. Hies 'n foto van milo charles



According to Jade Mazarin. A facilitator of learning, therefore, is a teacher who does not operate under the traditional concept of teaching, but rather is meant to guide and assist students in learning for themselves - picking apart ideas, forming their own thoughts about them, and owning material through self-exploration and dialogue.
I thinks it’s clear to everybody involved dat die tradisionele manier van onderrig nou nie meer so lekke werk nie.
Self-directed distance learning I think is a pretty cool idea soos die video gewys het is dit hoogs effektief deur die kind die geleentheid te bied om dit te leer wat vir hom interesant is, waarvoor hy life is of net iets wat hy wil weet. Daarna brei dit uit soos ‘n web soos die kinners met mekaar praat oor hul passies en dan vryf dit af by mekaar en so groei di web. Dis soos ‘n pay it forward system, jy leer its wat vir jou lekker is, gan an met jou lewe, praat die volgende dag daaroor met jou friend.
Een problem hier is natuurlik die toegang tot hulpbronne en nie net tegnologie nie, maar biblioteke en mense wat wel gelese is in die onderwerpe wat van die kind van belang is.

Nou as ek nou die twee goeters saam bring na my klaskamer (voorkamer in mymasehuis) toe dan in die geval waar ‘n senario soos in di video bewys nie moontlik is nie, is die enigste oplossing maar net om tradisionele onderwys aan te pas en om ‘n vassiliteerder van learning te wees.
Is 'n breathtakingly wonderfully eenvoudige idee, gee die sleutels van die toekoms oor aan die mense van die toekoms prob solved.

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Social media



@coolcatteacher asks the question Should we teach letter-writing in the classroom?

Should we teach letter writing in the classroom? Yes we should. Letter writing is a wonderful art. I’ve always admired the writers of beautiful master pieces of penmanship and impeccable language skills. The skills learned from letter writing would benefit the child when it comes to essay writing.


  1. Tweet or post status updates as a class. Teacher Karen Lirenmanlets students propose nuggets of learning that are posted for parents to read.
  2. Write blog posts about what students are learning. Teacher Kevin Jarrett blogs reflections about his Elementary STEM lab for parents to read each week.
  3. Let your students write for the world. Linda Yollis' students reflect about learning and classroom happenings.
  4. Connect to other classrooms through social media. Joli Barker is fearlessly connecting her classroom through a variety of media.
  5. Use Facebook to get feedback for your students' online science fair projects. Teacher Jamie Ewing is doing this now, as he shared recently.
  6. Use YouTube for your students to host a show or a podcast. Don Wettrick's students hosted the Focus Show online and now share their work on a podcast.
  7. Create Twitter accounts for a special interest projects. My studentMorgan spent two years testing and researching the best apps for kids with autism (with the help of three "recruits"), and her work just won her an NCWIT Award for the State of Georgia.
  8. Ask questions to engage your students in authentic learning. Tom Barrett did this when his class studied probability by asking about the weather in various locations.
  9. Communicate with other classrooms. The Global Read Aloud, Global Classroom Project and Physics of the Future are three examples of how teachers use social media to connect their students as they collaborate and communicate.
  10. Create projects with other teachers. (Full disclosure: I co-created Physics of the Future with Aaron Maurer, a fellow educator I first met on Twitter.)
  11. Share your learning with the world. My students are creating anEncyclopedia of Learning Games with Dr. Lee Graham's grad students at the University of Alaska Southeast. The educators are testing the games, and the students are testing them, too.
  12. Further a cause that you care about. Mrs. Stadler's classes are working to save the rhinos in South Africa, and Angela Maiers has thousands of kids choosing to matter.


She also mentions 12 ways teachers are using social media in the classroom and the brave teachers using them. I say these teachers are brave because the social media landscape is fun and dangerous. Something that seems fun today could lose you your job tomorrow or haunt you for the rest of your life. When it comes to the internet, once its out there its really out there.