Thursday, February 6, 2014

OneDrive and OneNote - Structuring for Collaborative Learning in Secondary Two Integrated Curriculum (English)

I used OneNote on OneDrive to archive the works that we have done as a class. The sections and pages present themselves very neatly for students to see at a glance what they have been learning for the various units.
As part of the Secondary 2 Integrated Curriculum, as a lead-in to the unit, students took on simulated roles from the world of Middle Earth (a fantasy world existing in J.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy). A simulated setting was given where they had to vote out one race as the school is re-structuring and want to retain only the best. To guide them in their brainstorming for reasons, groups were given a Padlet to list down their ideas. This then helped them with their arguments when the class decided on the race to be 'booted' out.
However, while I was creating this, I intentionally left out preparing the Padlet for 'The Other Creatures' as they were made to feel marginalised. This made for a very interesting class discussion as the group tried to find ways to log down their ideas and find good reasons to counteract the other races' arguments!