Voyage Coetail

Isn’t it wonderful when you hear your students having those moments? Last spring, I set up a popup maker space. For a whole morning, my students tinkered, made, built and played with scribbling machines . “The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge” Seymour Pappert. I’m telling you, setting this popup Makerspace was a big thing for me. It involved disrupting the “usual” French learning, disrupting the whole classroom. As I organised my room that morning, my mind was spinning with “ what if..”, what if the students can’t do it, what if it all fails, what if it’s too easy for them??? Added to that, the funny look on my colleagues’ faces didn’t help to relax! Yet it was a completely and truly amazing morning! How did I get organised... [caption id="attachment_470" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Photo M. Brutel[/caption] I was lucky enough to attend Learning2 Europe in Milan last spring and to...

[caption id="attachment_455" align="aligncenter" width="300"] flickr photo by mrsdkrebs https://flickr.com/photos/mrsdkrebs/6900256573 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license[/caption] Digital story telling and blogging with my students were until recently my main ideas for my final project. But I wanted to use my final project to have my students really being creative. While I was wondering how I could have it worked out, I went to #Learning 2 Europe. Since then I have two bright ideas that I equally like. Genius Hour in French Creating a game with Scratch and Makey Makey : the upper primary grade would create it to the early years to play. I’d like them to create a “Operation” like as they both know, learn or will learn vocabulary about the body. As I’m still discovering Scratch, I decided to give up on the latter to focus on the Genius Hour. Here is my UBD planner. Why do you think this unit is a good possibility for my course 5 project ? ...