We started off they day learning about visible learning. With our current learning journey we are going on with learning at home it has become essential to ensure that the leaning is visible to students and families. Making the process of teaching and learning visible gives learners, who may find learning difficult, a clear understanding of what they need to do prior to them beginning their learning. I guess I hadn't considered the impact that the visibility can actually have for some learners.
We did a deep dive into multi-modal learning. It is an area I haven't explore a lot yet. In my reading slides I have added the audio texts and linked videos. Kerry used the hook to explain how we need to be engaging students both behaviourally and cognitively.
Multi-modal learning requires us to give students opportunities to access information in different ways through different text types and at different levels. I thought that the idea of including different perspectives and credibility/reliability was really useful to extend the students thinking.
Next we learnt about creating sites from scratch. It was useful to to have a go from the beginning.
I really enjoyed learning how to create buttons as it makes the site more interesting. Here are a couple of buttons that created:
The rest of the day we were able to put of skills to use by creating our own multi-modal site. It was lot's of fun and a great way to show some creativity. I am excited to try it for my reading groups as I have quite a wide spread of abilities so I feel that it will be great to support those reading at slightly lower levels and extending the thinking of the more capable readers.
Take ways from today:
- Creating pretty buttons is a great way to make your site look more appealing (think about the shop window)
- The MutliText database is a fantastic resource to use and I need to remember to utilise it.
- Creating a multi-modal site isn't as hard as you would think and is a great place to put all sorts of texts types for students to easily access which also promotes visibility.
- Make learning visible
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog.
Until next time
Sarah
Reading your post is great - you have hit the nail on the head. I was nodding the whole way though, like yes, yes I agree!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your knowledge. I look forward to seeing more of your multimodal sites!
Thank you for the comment Kelsey. I really enjoyed this session (not that I haven't enjoyed the others). I think a few things clicked for me around the impact of having learning visible. Looking forward to this weeks DFI.
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