tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39582818334702490562023-11-16T06:38:44.587-08:00Visibly Learning in the Early YearsI'm always wondering; now I write about it!
I'm a learner, leader & teacher exploring how to teach our world's newest lifelong learners in their earliest years. I use SOLO Taxonomy to teach HOW to learn, so they know how to learn anything.
Kindness, fun and their futures matter! :) BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-33216581280651959572015-05-13T02:55:00.004-07:002015-05-13T06:13:38.035-07:00Toys, Science & SOLO; Classifying With 5 Year Olds<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>“Today when we looked in the box, all the things were mixed up! We wanted to sort the things into living and non-living groups. First we found a tree. We thought it was non-living but D***** thought it was living because it grows. We found a dinosaur. A***** said it used to be living but now all of them are dead - this means they are extinct. We made an extinct group. We found a tortoise and a fish and a fly. We put these in the living group because they can move - we have seen them! </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, I know that technically ALL of the small plastic figurines we used are non-living - and I intend to challenge them with this a bit later in the unit - however the discussion generated today was rich, playful and fun as they imagined a real giraffe, fish, tree, fly, cricket… in their hands. We could have gazed at the images on the IWB, computer or tablet, we could have cut images out or drawn our own - we still might and add them to this, but the student voice was evidence at the end of our day when this activity was the highlight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Where would you put Pinocchio? :-)</span></span>BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-83527607551162852312014-11-22T21:57:00.000-08:002014-11-23T00:50:18.251-08:00Learning Less Is More - My First EduIgnite Presentation<br />
I'm a teacher. Listening to, relating to and knowing my learners is so important. I care about provoking their wondering AND meeting each learner's differing needs. I enjoy planning with my kids - then I know they are going to be engaged. I am passionate about teaching our littlest learners to notice 'how' they are learning and how they might construct new learning.<br />
I appreciate how through using symbols AND words AND hand signals, I enable learning about the levels of SOLO to be accessible to more learners in more ways.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.nz/o/emerging-leaders-aotearoa-3914860529" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">EduIgnite Evenings</span></a> </span>are an opportunity to bring people together. Food, beverages and conversations are shared. Attendance at your first Ignite evening is 'no strings' then to encourage sharing of practice and passions, at your second Ignite evening attendees are asked to present or bring a colleague - though I suspect all attendees will always be welcome. Auckland events are well orchestrated by <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/109935484998576401063" target="_blank">+Andrew Cowie</a> & <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/118125186502854829251" target="_blank">+Mark Osborne</a><br />
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I was in remarkable, friendly, FUN company at the Auckland Public Library on Thursday evening. The presentations shared by passionate educators; Justine <a class="link-complex" data-user-name="digitallearnin" href="https://twitter.com/digitallearnin/" rel="user" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">@<span class="link-complex-target">digitallearnin</span></a><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Diana </span><a class="link-complex" data-user-name="DianaWilkes" href="https://twitter.com/DianaWilkes/" rel="user" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;"><span style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">@</span></span><span class="link-complex-target" style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">DianaWilkes</span></a>, Sonya<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="link-complex" data-user-name="vanschaijik" href="https://twitter.com/vanschaijik/" rel="user" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">@</span></span><span class="link-complex-target" style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">vanschaijik</span></a>,<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Fuatino<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="link-complex" data-user-name="f_leaupepe" href="https://twitter.com/f_leaupepe/" rel="user" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;"><span style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">@</span></span><span class="link-complex-target" style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">f_leaupepe</span></a>, Holly<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="link-complex" data-user-name="HmsMoore" href="https://twitter.com/HmsMoore/" rel="user" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">@</span></span><span class="link-complex-target" style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">HmsMoore</span></a> and Carolyn <a class="link-complex" data-user-name="CaroBush" href="https://twitter.com/CaroBush/" rel="user" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;"><span style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">@</span></span><span class="link-complex-target" style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">CaroBush</span></a> were each thoughtful and thought-provoking - I really look forward to 'rewinding' their videos when they are shared online.<br />
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Presentations are FAST - less is more! 5 mins maximum and your 20 slides auto progress every 15 secs. This leads to high energy sharing and - I found - very little time to refer to any notes so I abandoned plans and <strike>just</strike> spoke.<br />
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I attempted to meet a challenge set by <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/100634142400163970712" target="_blank">+Pam Hook</a> earlier this year and use ONLY images on my slides. I failed! More effort is required in learning about 'less is more'...<br />
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Considering the way I communicate about SOLO, with hands, symbols, written and spoken word - and because I am intrigued - I've begun reading around the theory of communication (Weiner & Mehrabian, 1968), the power of non-verbal communication (Mehrabian<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.kaaj.com/psych/smorder.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.kaaj.com/psych/smorder.html</span></a> </span>and around Birdwhistell's Kinesics. <span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Birdwhistell" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Birdwhistell</span></a></span>. Obviously, this is a huge area to explore and my summer reading list is now longer than a certain 5 year old's Christmas list... Less is more = complex!<br />
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I then wondered if 7% of a message is conveyed through words, 38% is the way the message is shared, and 55% is non-verbal (Mehrabian), then what message is conveyed through my slides without my voice and 'flappy' hands?<br />
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Are written or spoken words more important? The screens, the nose-gazing, the 'both and'? <br />
What if I attached any one of Scott Bradlee's tracks to it in place of silence? Or perhaps Ella's classic - "T'ain't What You Do..."<br />
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There are multiple ways in which we can present our learners with opportunities to explore and create understanding of ideas or concepts. And there were multiple ways in which my colleagues hooked me in and engaged me with their ideas and messages at EduIgnite last week.<br />
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To say there is a lot to learn in this world is stating the obvious.<br />
One thing I am noticing is that actions do speak louder than...<br />
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<br />BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-87513862081797273672014-11-14T19:41:00.001-08:002014-11-15T15:34:23.943-08:00Not Just Describing<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.900899887085px;">I've been making a conscious effort recently to limit my use of 'just'. A conversation had with our DP triggered a wondering...Why do I use it so often? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.900899887085px;">As a learner first, I try, and fail forward a lot - if an idea doesn't work, I know what to do - if it's worth pursuing; I think with SOLO Taxonomy. AND I'm not '<b><i>just' </i></b>doing it... </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 25.900899887085px;">There are always 'musts do' and I know I'm fortunate to be able to make choices about so much; many in our global family do not have this freedom. </span><span style="line-height: 25.900899887085px;">I can choose </span><span style="line-height: 25.900899887085px;">the way I act and react, to feedback; to people, to the world. </span><span style="line-height: 25.900899887085px;">I can choose to reflect honestly, to strategise and make improvements. I choose to share; maybe it's sometimes too much, too little or <i>just </i>right... </span><span style="line-height: 25.900899887085px;">This blog is not 'j</span><i style="line-height: 25.900899887085px;">ust' </i><span style="line-height: 25.900899887085px;">my story, it is part of my story, told my way. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.900899887085px;">I choose to tweet - I don't '<i>just' </i>do it, I do it because I enjoy learning from listening to others. AND then I noticed with a bang last year, how important those people who share their experiences are. I really love teaching and learning so being able to 'meet' with people about my 'passion project', while my broken organs sorted themselves out (slowly!) helped. I figure paying back by paying forward is pretty great. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.900899887085px;">My class and I aim for 'kind and helpful always' -to self and others. What I know and experience might be helpful for someone else, in the way that when others share their knowledge and experiences, they are helpful to me. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.900899887085px;">So, I am sharing another couple of answers to questions from my ULearn14 SOLO Taxonomy in Early Years </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/SOLOTaxonomy" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.900899887085px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Breakout Presentation</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.900899887085px;">... No '</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.900899887085px;">justs' </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.900899887085px;">about it. :-) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-weight: normal;">Thanks for this question - using drawings of the hands was something we thought would be helpful. We saw this</span><span style="color: blue;"><b> </b><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFR8AM7Hu5I" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>video clip</b></span></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFR8AM7Hu5I" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"> </a></span></span><span style="color: #351c75; font-weight: normal;">of wonderful 5 year old learners Pam had worked with using hand signals, so our team decided we would draw some to help ‘trigger’ the learners in an additional way. Some learners make connections best by reading text, some by the use of the hand gestures, some by connecting with images - no one way is better than another - it's 'AND'. How many ways can I offer them to help them develop an understanding? I</span></span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">t’s another way to make the links visible. </span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have the hand signals displayed around the room, and permanently above my teacher station, but I don’t put them beside each rubric anymore - my students are familiar with the symbols. Pam has examples of the hand signals published by Essential Resources. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 25.900899887085px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The See, Think, Wonder stickers are one 'branch' of the Describe++. You can use several of these together to explore an idea/concept in depth E.G </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.'Get Creative/Innovative Together' then Describe: What did we make? Why is this part important/Why did we do this? Wonder; what could we change to improve, who could we share this with, who could use/enjoy this? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 25.900899887085px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whether learning to play Minecraft together as my daughter and I are - using this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XrxiHHHaQA&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Fab Minecraft video</span> </a>from Pam, learning to read for the first time, or learning to use SOLO Taxonomy to help make the learning process visible for the first time - it's not 'just' learning, it's learning AND it's remarkable! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ironically; I have only <i>just </i>noticed how much I use another word too...<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.edtalks.org/video/making-learning-visible-solo-taxonomy" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Wondering</span></a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">I immediately connected upon meeting Lynley. Waimairi School has deep understanding of SOLO within </span><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">their yard! We are both most comfortable sitting on the floor. We appreciate</span><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> George and his scones ;-) #BothAnd #MakingItWork</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PEOPLE MAKE “Modern Learning Environments” (MY definition of this is a space where </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">learning </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is valued as most important and the how is flexible - the WHY is never overlooked, and all get that) Broken buildings AND visible cracks are no barriers to an MLE and quality learning happens in the face of, and as a result of challenge and change. Every element in each classroom learning space at Waimairi School has purpose and MOST importantly the people share the understanding. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sharing, collaboration and great wonderings happen when sharing food and coffee - Waimairi School invite their community to enjoy conversations over quality espresso each morning - an initiative that is evidently very successful at creating and sustaining relationships.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.1666679382324px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'Marmalade and scones' - sharing kai really enables people to connect, and backstories should be made visible... They are important. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am already so grateful for the experience and </span><span style="line-height: 1.15;">I know this face to face meeting was only the start of the relationships I will enjoy with people of Waimairi School. I showed my 5 year old learners the photos yesterday and they were as 'buzzing' as I was - particularly when they saw and related with other learners their age using SOLO Taxonomy - there was a choice and they chose to construct this together. Lynley, it may not be a 'SOLO' song for much longer... ;-)</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning and connecting of hearts and minds is most important. Citizenship matters. Kindness matters. Thank you, people of Waimairi School. I hope to reciprocate soon and look forward to sharing future meetings and wonderings.</span></span></div>
BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-9377939801989641772014-11-01T22:23:00.000-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.947-08:00Connected & Connecting People... Reflection on #CENZ14<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Participating in Connected Educator Month NZ has provoked a lot of sharing, learning and wondering! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">During the month of October, I have made visible contributions online and shared my learning in the following ways </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(not all relevant to 'pledged events'):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My EdTalk <a href="http://www.edtalks.org/video/making-learning-visible-solo-taxonomy" target="_blank">Making Learning Visible with SOLO Taxonomy</a> filmed and produced by <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/edtalks" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">edtalks</span></a> <a class="tweet-url twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/janenicholls" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">@janenicholls</a><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="tweet-url twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/jedd" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">@jedd</a><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; line-height: 20px;"> and </span><a class="tweet-url twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/mlintott" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">@mlintott</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Through <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/vanschaijik" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">vanschaijik</span></a> virtual TeachMeetNZ presentation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Notice, both of these presentations have further links to shared google docs. The SOLO one was VERY well utilised & contributed to during the presentation and attended by Pam Hook <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/arti_choke" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">arti_choke</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.7777786254883px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a collection of the tweets shared by the wonderful group of educators who joined the breakout at #ULearn14. Thanks Pam for collating. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pam's SOLO Taxonomy Early Years Pinterest Board has had a few extra pins contributed by my learners and I during October <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/solotaxonomy/solo-taxonomy-in-early-years/" target="_blank">http://www.pinterest.<wbr></wbr>com/solotaxonomy/solo-<wbr></wbr>taxonomy-in-early-years/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The #EdbookNZ project, I contributed to as a critical / 'kind and helpful' friend for <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/vanschaijik" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">vanschaijik</span></a>. _<a href="http://issuu.com/ulimasao/docs/completed_book__2_" target="_blank">http://issuu.com/ulimasao/<wbr></wbr>docs/completed_book__2_</a> The result - an awesome collection of wonderings by warm, connected, knowledgeable people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And, then there is Twitter; 'Hi, I'm @bridgetcasse and I love being connected online'! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">There is no possible way we can really think 'big', without considering small. It is indeed all the small steps especially when taken together that can lead to something quite remarkable. <i>Slow IS ok</i> - and yes, this is completely the opposite to what I was told at a large corporate conference I attended earlier in the year, where I must say, as connected as we all were - I felt a disconnect. But the defining moments of that conference for me were:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1.Over lunch with Mahsa <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/Mahsabanoo" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mahsabanoo</span></a> discussing how she is actively working to encourage young women to engage in computer science and technology. I still hope to attend her workshop later this year. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2.Listening to Karen<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/virtuallykaren" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14px;">virtuallykaren</span></a> <span style="line-height: 14px;">feeling excited by her effort and energy with her planning for CENZ14. These t</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">wo inspiring people were </span></span>thinking big, and 'making it happen' one step at a time.<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've had great intrigue in that term 'Connected'. It's a fascinating label I think. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Labels can help us feel connected, they generate excitement as we strive to belong and identify. Large gestures might be made, buying flash new furniture, knocking down walls, building new ones, securing access to 1:1 devices... I once got a buzz cut... Didn't need to - know that now! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wonder... Connected Educator, Modern Learner in a Modern Learning Environment, Flipped Educator, 21C Learner... Is any one of these as important as being a kind, thoughtful citizen of our global family? Is that the greatest kind of 'connected'? </span><br />
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After a few short, 'kindly disruptive' ;) words from Pam (and a really good coffee) early in October, I made a personal resolve. I sought to make these virtual connections more real during the valuable face to face time at ULearn14. Look up, say "Hi" and smile! And yep - as the saying goes, the world (well mostly!) is smiling back. :-) <a href="http://bridgetcasse.blogspot.co.nz/2014/10/making-connections-keeping-it-real.html" target="_blank">Reflection for ULearn14</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">AND I still tried to tweet a lot of my learning, because I know how much I appreciated attending virtually as I was laid up in bed last year recovering from an accident. My PLN, though many won't know it, helped me remain and feel connected, and that is something I can pay back by paying forward. Connecting with self is also hugely important.</span><br />
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I observed with interest, early in Connected Ed Month, as a large part of this wonderful city I reside in was forced to 'disconnect' - the power went out. When stories emerged of people needing to take 'refuge' in hotels, or who were faced with the challenge of not being able to navigate their way around electric gates, I wondered, is it time that we need to make being able to connect with, through AND beyond the screens equally visible? I appreciated a tweet from <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/vanschaijik" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">vanschaijik</span></a> during this power outage of her cooking a full breakfast for her family over a small gas cooker. I thought, to me, that encapsulated 'connected' so well. Technology and tools - traditional and modern - check, people who care about each other - check, nourishment - check. Knowing how to combine all elements - priceless. Sonya - very deserving of the 'Queen of Connected' title! :-)</span><br />
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I really enjoy that at Edendale Primary School, learning from, for and with our land is such an important part of our curriculum; teaching and recognising Kaitiakitanga - I think this is connected too. We proudly identify as the first Eco-School in NZ and as a Garden To Table school and we are looking forward to contributing towards the One Planet Picnic Project <a href="http://eco-schools-projects.org/opp/" target="_blank">http://eco-schools-projects.org/opp/</a> soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When I arrived home from ULearn14, I came across this amazing connected project happening in Bangladesh <a href="http://www.shidhulai.org/ourwork.html" target="_blank">http://www.shidhulai.org/ourwork.html</a> through my connection with <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/EcoSchoolsInt" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #8899a6;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">EcoSchoolsInt</span></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wondered... What if we streamed these fabulous people into our auditoriums? Keynotes? No need to fly them over - they are connected...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Later in the month, a young teenager was killed on the train tracks in Te Kuiti. I wonder, why wasn't the breakout presented by Newmarket School<a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ginnynz01" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">ginnynz01</span></a> presenting a new <a href="https://education.nzta.govt.nz/resources/primary/rail-safety" target="_blank">Tracksafe </a>resource more widely attended? Trains, roads, air and sea connect people. They are also spaces where our global family members are killed. </span><br />
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I wonder, what might result from a 'trade hall' space if it were filled (ok - next step, just one corner?) with questions about, and images that represent the wicked problems existent in this country, and in this world of ours and simply invited discussion about the kids we teach? How are we making big problems accessible and visible for our learners? How are we enabling them with the tools necessary for them to solve what we cannot solve ourselves nor even predict? What if the focus remained on people instead of products - claiming to 'revolutionise and redefine' while offering 'free' lollies in exchange for my contact details? Connecting? I guess it still is... But what if I assess it using my 'grey' understanding of what it might be and with SOLO Taxonomy...? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Taking part in connected educator month has allowed me to create more virtual connections and move beyond virtual with some of those I already had. I love that. From talking with and listening to many of my 'virtual' friends at ULearn14, conversing with people in GHOs, engaging in chats with people and listening to them sharing their learning, I know a little more about these people and many of them know a little more about me. It is the relationships between the people who have participated in #CENZ14 that has made October so meaningful. I can't wait to learn more from and with these wonderful people. October was but a beginning.</span><br />
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So Connected Educator... Am I one? Let's see...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Educator - my 21 five year old learners will surely attest to this. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Connected - I still honestly am not sure what this means for me. It's ok - questions are more important than having all the answers. Maybe I will ask those little learners of mine what they think...</span><br />
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There are so many labels that I could identify with. But my favourite one - and the only one I am completely comfortable with, is learner. </span><br />
<br />BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-11222442749955994642014-10-27T00:16:00.001-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.869-08:00Making Learning Visible with #SOLOTaxonomy; EdTalk & Talking Ed<span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>Filming - the camera; my favourite 'app'.</u></b> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">My learners LOVE to watch themselves on the 'big screen'! They notice what they did, they wonder why, they consider how they might do things differently (see, think, wonder). They laugh, they smile - they delight in it! </span><i>I do wish my reaction to seeing myself on film was a little more like this!</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">My awesome team of educators and I frequently film short snippets of ourselves teaching for self-review and reflection (it is a school expectation - but is something I have been encouraged to do since I began teaching). I frequently film myself as part of my self-review and reflection as a leader too - filming meetings, analysing my actions and asking for feedback from my team. I find it can be hard to watch myself, but once I disassociate from emotions and analyse the practice - focus on the <u>learning not the learner </u>- I find it a really </span><span style="background-color: white;">powerful - disruptive - experience. It can confirm and consolidate and make you notice what you might not otherwise have seen, from other perspectives. I can then give myself feedback - and if I'm looking at the <a href="http://bridgetcasse.blogspot.co.nz/2014/09/teaching-how-to-give-receive-feedback.html">rubric </a>- I can decide what to do with it... Usually, I choose to make a change. I can always improve and there is always a new next step, or goal to meet. </span><br />
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My second EdTalk was published late last week, thanks <span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><a class="link-complex" data-user-name="janenicholls" href="https://twitter.com/janenicholls/" rel="user" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">@</span></span><span class="link-complex-target" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">janenicholls</span></a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"></span><a class="link-complex" data-user-name="jedd" href="https://twitter.com/jedd/" rel="user" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@<span class="link-complex-target">jedd</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"> and </span><a class="link-complex" data-user-name="mlintott" href="https://twitter.com/mlintott/" rel="user" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">@</span></span><span class="link-complex-target" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">mlintott</span></a> for creating such an inviting climate for me to share this snapshot of my learning journey, and for all the work behind the scenes to prepare it for publishing! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I had analysed and learnt from watching my first EdTalk and set new goals for this time around. I enjoyed noticing an improvement. There are, of course, still aspects I would change and improve, but i</span><span style="background-color: white;">t's organic and unscripted. I</span><span style="background-color: white;">t is me sharing; describing what I do, considering why, and wondering... Feedback is welcome. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0PW2ociHaJgwQM2951TjRPhyphenhyphenOfxvonJO3PEI8X2p1POzwmtj3eWR8saUo16oFyX46d3i2lcE_qmjsNyU6aGO8FlIKLP9n9o3lCh-EPR-1CZnA-TW_0DXMkusCGEuSLeVDRprG-mJaLA/s1600/me+talking.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0PW2ociHaJgwQM2951TjRPhyphenhyphenOfxvonJO3PEI8X2p1POzwmtj3eWR8saUo16oFyX46d3i2lcE_qmjsNyU6aGO8FlIKLP9n9o3lCh-EPR-1CZnA-TW_0DXMkusCGEuSLeVDRprG-mJaLA/s1600/me+talking.PNG" height="116" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"><i>"Our youngest children are very experienced learners already! They naturally explore and wonder, they ask questions... The feedback we give children is important - it can encourage and re-enforce mindsets. I use SOLO Taxonomy with 5 year old learners, from their first day at school because it empowers; learners begin t</i></span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">o notice 'how' they are learning, and what their next step could be. They can then apply the model to anything they want to (or need to) learn - what an important 'tool' for 'life-long learners' to have!"</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.edtalks.org/video/making-learning-visible-solo-taxonomy"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.edtalks.org/video/making-learning-visible-solo-taxonomy</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Links to find out more...</span><br />
<a href="http://pamhook.com/">http://pamhook.com/</a> HookEd Educational Consultancy <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/arti_choke" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">arti_choke</span></span></a><br />
<a href="http://visible-learning.org/">http://visible-learning.org/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Mindset-Carol-Dweck/9781780332000">Mindset. How You Can Fulfill Your Potential - Carol Dweck</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves?language=en">Kids Can Teach Themselves - Sugata Mitra</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-65071838188113159522014-10-22T03:17:00.002-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.917-08:00Q's, A's, Walls and Standing Up. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just prior to Breakout 1 session at ULearn14, This image was taken (thank you <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/1MvdS" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); line-height: 14px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">1MvdS</span></a> !) I only realised there were images from the presentation this afternoon while reflecting and writing a descriptor for my EdTalk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The irony captured in the above image is LOUD, I love it because I learned from it, and there are no prizes for guessing who I was 'connecting' with. This was the message I am sending in the picture above...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is taking me a while to get through the questions (ERO, planning, reports etc are also visible!) I was so fortunate to have Pam <a href="http://arti_choke/">@arti_choke</a> attend the 'party' on the day and be present to share her knowledge; providing answers to many questions. <b>Smashing barriers - seriously you can leave the walls (they connect the roof and floor rather well), we can work through them! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sharing and crediting are only two of the very important messages I have learnt from Pam. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, I thought I would begin posting some of the Q's I was asked and the A's I have shared. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anyone can access the whole doc at any time - link is on the presentation. <span style="color: #144c72; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/SOLOTaxonomy" style="line-height: 1; text-decoration: none;">http://tinyurl.com/SOLOTaxonomy</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 1; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://storify.com/arti_choke/bridget-casse-making-the-most-of-the-early-years">https://storify.com/arti_choke/bridget-casse-making-the-most-of-the-early-years</a></span></span></span><br />
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BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-46617699927360970632014-10-15T01:52:00.000-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.904-08:00Success... Could be #SOLOTaxonomy learning talk at the dinner table! Our learners had input into planning our current learning journey last term and the direction was born from wonderings gathered during previous learning discussions - always noted, named and recorded so we can refer back to them.<br />
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This term we are exploring the idea of 'Success' (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Stars). What does it look like in 'my' world - how is it visible? And what might it look like to others? A link I shared yesterday is this <a href="http://www.shidhulai.org/ourwork.html">http://www.shidhulai.org/ourwork.html</a> (love how with tech I can bring outside inside and visuals are so powerful). Also, yes while we are at it, let's notice Malala Yousafzai... Let's relate this 'noticing' to our learning in maths; remember the successful woman we talked about on our $10 note who we discussed during the elections last term... Noticing stars while our feet are on our ground. Making connections.<br />
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There will be a Social Sciences tilt to this learning journey, with Health very clearly evident - it always is, we are all citizens learning together after all. Our rubric, with 'key strategies' to prompt discussion at each stage is visible, unpacked from the beginning and the goals shared.<br />
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This week, we began by identifying something we felt we succeeded at during the holidays - because we don't just 'learn at school'!<br />
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I wanted to also see where my learners were at with using the hexagon strategy so I had them draw or write their idea and let them place and connect at their leisure. After each had completed I brought them together and asked what they noticed? Hexagons had been 'plonked'.<br />
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<i>Bring in the <a href="http://bridgetcasse.blogspot.co.nz/2014/09/teaching-how-to-give-receive-feedback.html">Feedback Rubric</a>... 'I finished MY work'...</i><br />
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So I activated discussion. We made connections verbally and they justified their ideas, the hexagons became weathered as the were moved from one place to another, to another... Then we always STAND UP and look at it from a different perspective - it helps us notice what we may not have noticed before. <i>And yes, sometimes the 'notice' is "Ooo it looks like a dinosaur!"- I love this, it's why I love working with early years learners!</i><br />
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I was rather (ok, very) excited when one of my learners identified that she had been successful at talking about understanding SOLO Taxonomy at the dinner table with an older sibling. She connected to my hexagon and justified that it was 'because they were both about talking and SOLO'.<br />
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We then reflected and recorded the process that we went through using the generic SOLO rubric. We decided we are probably Unistructural as a class at using hexagons as a strategy because we still need lots of support, but if conversations about the HOW of learning are being had with family in homes...(and from parent feedback, this is not a 'one off!') I am feeling pretty inspired!<br />
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So heading into tomorrow; we each have visible starting points and next steps; we have our rubrics. We have outcomes to achieve. To scaffold, we have 'suggestions' on a plan (I acknowledge, it can be daunting letting learners drive). How we will get there? I have no idea yet, but I know it will be an interesting ride... And I can't wait to see how learners in the rest of our team arrive at their destination!<br />
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<br />BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-32306367155522500992014-10-11T02:54:00.001-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.886-08:00Making Connections & Keeping it RealThe evening prior to setting off for ULearn 14 I connected with someone remarkable and shared that my first 'job' at 14 years old saw me engulfed by a lion costume, standing outside the local dairy offering Paddle Pops to other kids. That huge head I had to wear was heavy and I'm 'balance challenged' at the best of times! But I was determined...<br />
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Fast forward to the ULearn Showcase on the final eve, it was with amusement and wonder that I read a text from my '<i>modern 21C learner</i>' daughter (no, she does not own a phone) that read "Mummy I miss you so much. I hope you have fun and can you please bring me home a Paddle Pop?"<br />
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On the long drive home (as I imagine most others did) I reflected. I noticed this particular snapshot began and would end with ice cream!<br />
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My learning goal has been visible through my blog posts; share more; while connecting with, listening to and learning from people around me (face to face and virtually).<br />
I conversed with and engaged with so many wonderful people during ULearn 14 and it was <b>awesome</b>. I loved it and I can't wait to connect further and with more!<br />
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All connections made were relevant to SOLO Taxonomy - I knew my learning goal and I framed my steps with it.<br />
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Connections were often made or strengthened while feasting on the delicious kai provided and served by talented, friendly staff (yes, details matter) at the Events Centre and in Central Rotorua. Connections were made about coffee, pallet furniture, beauty in the far North, fishing, whales, Antarctica & F.I.S.H, Bon Jovi, gardens at home and school, residing in West Auckland, Minimally Invasive Ed, Twitter - the why, how (and what if you don't? <u>Please, you don't have to! T</u>he world will still turn & wonderful things will continue to happen in your classroom and your school!). Connections were made about Grease, choosing you 'tude, trains, roads, Thomas the Tank Engine, our kids being killed, disrupting, and kindness.<br />
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Connections were made or strengthened before, during and after the breakouts I presented at; about teaching learning to learn strategies, Inquiry, young learners, sustainable learning practices, Kaitiakitanga, wicked problems and citizenship - what matters most <u>now</u>?<br />
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Connections were strengthened hugely by having Pam <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/arti_choke" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">arti_choke</span></a> present virtually during my first presentation; she made herself visible to answer questions and add her huge wealth of experience and knowledge to the breakout.<br />
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I compared the energetic, responsive and organic interactions between the small, eclectic and wonderful group of educators at my breakout about growing sustainable learners, to the interactions between 500+ equally eclectic and wonderful educators at a large corporate conference I attended in April, where I could have heard a pin drop as everyone had their eyes fixated on their devices.<br />
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What I appreciated most during ULearn 14, was that when I looked up and said "Hi" and took my first step out of the comfort zone, the rest seemed to 'just happen' because so many friendly, genuine, kind and passionate educators attended. And people matter. Kindness matters, as does 'keeping it <b><u>real</u></b>'.<br />
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Perhaps my 'Extended Abstract' wondering might be... That I really appreciated that I also made connections over feelings of disconnect with certain ideas and themes... I feel that may be another blogpost. :-D<br />
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So yes - as success requires effort, I made 4 stops before I found (thanks 'connectivity') that the requested Paddle Pop flavour doesn't exist... It didn't matter, she was most excited to see Mummy anyway. People matter.<br />
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I made this and added it to my first presentation as a result of an awesome first eve in Rotorua with awesome people I connected with after meeting through Twitter - it really can be an activator for real life connections, if you make it happen. I'm so happy I did.<br />
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My ULearn Presentations:<br />
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/SOLOTaxonomy" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #144c72; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>http://tinyurl.com/SOLOTaxonomy</b></span></a><br />
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My TeachMeetNz Presentation:<br />
<a href="http://teachmeetnz.wikispaces.com/Casse_Bridget">http://teachmeetnz.wikispaces.com/Casse_Bridget</a> with a huge reference to <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/vanschaijik" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">vanschaijik</span></a> who is so connected! :-)<br />
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And of course... for all things SOLO and so much more:<br />
<a href="http://pamhook.com/">http://pamhook.com/</a><br />
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<br />BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-51595496527585338072014-09-21T01:40:00.002-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.908-08:00A snapshot:Just how much does this learner use SOLO?<div>
I use SOLO to help create new learning. The context changes, the model doesn't. The following is a reflection of how I have used it in the last 10 days... </div>
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In the classroom 'learning environment/learning space' (btw is there a space that can't be one of these?!) my learners use SOLO to visibly notice how they are moving towards their learning goals, across the curriculum. They use it to help <i>themselves </i>plan for writing, for understanding texts they read, and representing numbers in a variety of ways. They use it to help them learn and develop social skills - they relate it to learning to share, managing themselves, listening to others and asking questions... Such important skills to develop. </div>
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My awesome team of educators (in whichever 'learning space' they have been situated at any particular time) has been planning exciting next learning challenges for our students based on student voice; we all use SOLO to plan to meet the differentiated needs of our learners. Opportunities are planned for shallow, deep and conceptual understanding of the learning goals. </div>
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I frequently use SOLO to reflect on and set out to improve my own practice (teaching and leading). </div>
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Over the next few weeks I am looking forward to presenting at <a href="http://teachmeetnz.wikispaces.com/">TeachMeetNZ</a> on the 4th October, at <a href="http://events.core-ed.org/ulearn">ULearn14</a> (breakouts 1 and 3) and filming an EdTalk. For each of these events I have my goals. I have been using SOLO to plan how I will try and meet each one and ideally offer something helpful for each person who views or attends to 'takeaway'! </div>
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And whilst planning with SOLO, I am noticing my own learning against SOLO. I am new to presenting and am trying to soak up as much from others with more experience as I can! I know I learn a lot through doing, and receiving feedback. For this reason I intend to film my own presentations. I will then use the clips to critique myself and identify areas for improvement. </div>
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I have been teaching my daughter to play new games, I helped her notice the 'how of learning' by referring to SOLO - why not!? She is now able to genuinely beat me at Chess, Checkers and Trivial Pursuit and our little family now has a fun new tradition (our general knowledge is improving too - soon we may even be able to move beyond the 'kid's questions'!)</div>
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So, why so much SOLO? Because SOLO is applicable to all learning and I'm a learner. I love it and I enjoy it. </div>
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We don't each meet goals in the same way - the SOLO model allows for divergence! It's really important to notice, appreciate and enjoy reaching each next step; valuing how we got there and what uniqueness we bring with us. Remember to not only look toward the next step, but to celebrate reaching the one you are standing on. </div>
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BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-23035607279080464762014-09-08T04:28:00.003-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.873-08:00Teaching HOW to give & receive feedback with SOLO. I think, in the first year of school, it is really <u>helpful</u> to help our learners learn <b><u>how </u></b>to give and receive kind and <u>helpful </u>feedback. Today we noticed <u>how</u> we have been learning to give each other feedback.<br />
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As a 'model' of a learner, I began drafting a rubric last night, then asked for my learner's feedback this morning. The value they added was utterly awesome, and the 'strategies' are recorded in their 'beautiful' voice. I think the result is reflective of our constant use of SOLO and the language of learning, and our familiarity with <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/100634142400163970712" target="_blank">+Pam Hook</a> <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/arti_choke" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">arti_choke</span></a> 's <a href="http://pamhook.com/">HookEd </a> visual rubrics!<br />
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The power and efficacy of feedback and peer tutoring are well recognised due to the legendary work of Professor John Hattie.<br />
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My understanding is that effective feedback concentrates on achievement/success that is visibly connected to the original learning goal, and also offers next steps. So, shouldn't one of the most important skills we help our youngest learners to understand be HOW to give and receive helpful, effective feedback? Might this further empower them as learners and teachers?<br />
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I noticed the 'Star and a Wish' feedback strategy in Louise Dempsey & Sheena Cameron's <a href="http://www.thewritingbook.com/">The Writing Book</a> and began using this together with SOLO to teach <b>how </b>to feedback about writing. It is now evident across all learning areas because it seems to be working!<br />
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I have always asked my learners to assess modelled and shared writing; "What did I do well? What do you think I should improve?" We have always looked at each other's writing, but I haven't always been sure they are giving effective feedback to each other.<br />
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I predict this will be a helpful visual reference for my future learners to refer to, adapt and add their own voice to. As always any feedback is welcome & encouraged!<br />
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BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-6883160518806874762014-09-06T23:47:00.001-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.926-08:00Being Open to Sharing; My Learning & SOLOThis weekend I have spent time preparing for my first TeachMeetNZ presentation to be broadcast as part of #CENZ14 (on October 4th) <a href="http://teachmeetnz.wikispaces.com/TeachMeetNZ_2014_4">TeachMeetNZ OCT14</a><br />
I have been truly amazed at how much learning has resulted from preparing this brief, 3 minute presentation! I am in my own 'Early Years' when it comes to sharing my practice online. I would assess myself as Unistructural, Multistructural at best!<br />
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Yesterday, I was SO lucky to have the awesome <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/vanschaijik" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">vanschaijik</span></a><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;"> </span> <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/108559068621602732729" target="_blank">+Sonya Van Schaijik</a>, who leads <a href="http://teachmeetnz.wikispaces.com/TeachMeetNZ_2014_4">TeachMeetNZ</a>, guide me and offer <u>kind, </u><u>helpful </u>feedback about my presentation. Once again, through conversation, she helped me form connections I hadn't noticed before and I have learnt a lot from the experience.<br />
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It strikes me just how fortunate I am to have the opportunity to learn from an educator like Sonya, and I think acknowledgment is really important.<br />
THANK YOU, Sonya for sharing your expertise, passion and learning journey so widely. I remain in awe. :-)<br />
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I am lucky that as an educator in this country, I have colleagues with such vast and varied experience and knowledge - who willingly share - from whom I can learn. The 'knowledge certainly IS in our room'.<br />
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I am also very lucky to have colleagues who are 'Extended Abstract' at sharing who are so genuine and <b><i>willing </i></b>to <b><i>help </i></b>and <b><i>encourage </i></b>me to share <b><i>my </i></b>voice more. <br />
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I intend to keep working on paying it forward; face-to-face as an Assistant Principal and leader of an awesome team, as a teacher in my awesome classroom, and as a NZ educator connecting more online and face-to-face with awesome educators from NZ, and around the world.<br />
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My Next Steps<br />
Keep encouraging my team to share their awesome practice with anyone and everyone!<br />
Keep asking myself 'what is it that I am doing that IS awesome, DOES work for my learners and could/should be shared?'<br />
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No one might listen - and that is OK! But I will have actively reflected and put it 'out there' anyway.<br />
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Bring on the #ULearn14 Edtalk and Presentation planning now! (Breakouts #1 and #3) <a href="http://eventadmin.core-ed.org/breakouts/view/ulearn14">ULearn Breakouts</a> And please be sure to notice Sonya's Breakouts too, I'm signed up already!<br />
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AND of course, thanks to <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/arti_choke" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">arti_choke</span></a> Pam, for enabling and encouraging our initial connection! ;-)<br />
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<br />BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-27688439468987261972014-08-28T03:49:00.002-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.882-08:00SOLO & Literacy Teaching Y0-Y13The learning goal changes, the <i>model </i>of learning can be the same.<br />
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This week <a class="link-complex" data-user-name="annekenn" href="https://twitter.com/annekenn/" rel="user" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #3b94d9; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">@<span class="link-complex-target">annekenn</span></a><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span> asked a few NZ educators, including myself, to share how we use SOLO Taxonomy when teaching literacy for a NZ <a href="http://literacyonline.tki.org.nz/Literacy-Online/News">Literacy Online Update</a>. I haven't met the other educators who contributed 'face to face', but enthusiastically follow both <a class="link-complex" data-user-name="ginnynz01" href="https://twitter.com/ginnynz01/" rel="user" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">@<span class="link-complex-target">ginnynz01</span></a><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><a class="link-complex" data-user-name="elizmcneill" href="https://twitter.com/elizmcneill/" rel="user" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">@</span></span><span class="link-complex-target" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px;">elizmcneill</span></a> through our awesome NZ PLN on Twitter #EdchatNZ. I do hope to meet them one day soon.<br />
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The work NZ educators are doing with using SOLO Taxonomy in classrooms is innovative, thoughtful and has our learners' interests at the heart of all that we do.<br />
<b>Without a shadow of a doubt, I think this is a reflection of the model from whom we have all learnt. </b><br />
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<u>Thank you</u>, Pam. <a class="link-complex" data-user-name="arti_choke" href="https://twitter.com/arti_choke/" rel="user" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">@<span class="link-complex-target">arti_choke</span></a><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0120115280151px; line-height: 15.4293603897095px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="http://pamhook.com/">http://pamhook.com/</a></span><br />
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I am feeling pretty proud of the resulting post:<br />
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BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-76690614911125276462014-08-27T03:21:00.002-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.930-08:00SOLO, Learning, Games & Connected Fun!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Tomorrow my class will participate in and contribute to a #KidsEdChatNZ Twitter discussion with other students around NZ. It is our first time. We will be discussing how games (traditional and e-based) can contribute to our learning. We are Prestructural about joining twitter chats as a class, so we needed to start by finding out one thing about it..."Ms Casse, how are we going to talk to all the kids at the same time?" </span><br />
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I asked them to self-organise groups of learners who would use each game depending on their SOLO assessed understanding of it. Learners who assessed themselves as Extended Abstract at playing a particular game buddied up to teach learners who assessed themselves as Prestructural/Unistructural players.</div>
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Snakes & ladders - they noticed it helped them practise counting & 'finding the numbers', </div>
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We were <b>all </b>learning how to work together and we were all noticing <b><i>how </i></b>we were learning. </div>
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We were learning with <b>and </b>without technology, but tomorrow we will use technology to connect with other awesome learners we have never met. We will break through the walls of our MLE, bring the outside world in, and put our ideas out there. We will be mindful of how & what we share. I have set up a class account and only non-identifiable learner information will be shared. It's our first step into the world of connecting Room 21 learners with other NZ learners in real time and we are excited! </div>
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By 3pm tomorrow, I predict my learners will assess themselves as at least Multistructural at connecting with others online! </div>
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Oh, and I received a next step from a couple of my learners. "We use Minecraft, it's great!" To which I declared "I am Unistructural at using Minecraft", I know many outstanding educators use it with success, but I haven't tried. I'm open to learning though, so.... I asked my learners to explain to me how they think it will help them learn in class? If it will help them learn, we should be open to doing it! A Y1 small group Inquiry project perhaps?! Watch this space... I will be listening to my 'student voice'. </div>
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BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-45389847910911754912014-08-22T23:53:00.001-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.899-08:00Using SOLO Taxonomy to Empower Youngest LearnersI truly think "If I had more time I would..." is a very understandable, realistic response to so many questions asked of teachers! Expectations for accountability and meeting 'standards' can become overwhelming.<br />
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A conversation I had with <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ewanmcintosh" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none !important;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">ewanmcintosh</span></a> at the 'Working in our Wired World' conference in Rotorua this year (as I expected!) activated wondering...<br />
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How am I making what I HAVE to do, balance & work with what my learners and I WANT to do?<br />
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We all know there are always going to be things we just HAVE to do...<br />
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This post is focused on literacy and numeracy (though I do believe holistic development of our learners IS most important).<br />
As a teacher, there are outcomes I must help my learners to meet. I help little ones learn <i>how </i>to read, and write. I help them learn <i>how </i>to count forwards and backwards, add/subtract.. I help them learn <i>how </i>to 'do' school. As an early years teacher, I know these skills are important foundational skills to learn, and these are goals that take effort and time to achieve.<br />
I think though, the most important thing I can I help them do is notice <i>how </i>to learn, so they can apply the strategies to learn anything THEY want. Be empowered, sustainable 'life-long learners'.<br />
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<b>I want my </b>young learners to <b>notice:</b><br />
They <b>are </b>already experienced learners,<br />
They <b>can </b>learn how to learn anything,<br />
Learning <b>is </b>a process - it requires effort.<br />
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I love teaching early literacy and numeracy skills. I do find that many of my learners WANT to read,write and 'do' maths. In these early years I see this as valid 'inquiry':<br />
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"Ms Casse, what does that say?" (Prestrucural at knowing letter names & sounds)<br />
Let's find out what <i>some </i>of those squiggles we refer to as 'letters' are called and what some of the sounds are, with lots of help at first (Unistructural), then less help (Multistructural).<br />
"Yep I got this now - I know these letter names and sounds!"(Relational)<br />
What if we use our knowledge to do something else? To read simple high frequency words, blends, chunks? Can I help someone else learn their letter sounds? (Extended Abstract - for this learning outcome)<br />
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This is where I see SOLO Taxonomy as being SO useful - the symbols and signals we use mean it's a visible reference for my learners to connect with. I find using Pam Hook's <a href="http://pamhook.com/free-resources/downloadable-resources/">HOOKEd Visual Rubrics</a> are instrumental to the success of this. I am always 'thinking aloud' and 'noticing learning' so that the how of learning becomes more visible and ingrained in our classroom culture. They are not just learning letters, they are learning to learn as well.<br />
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Using SOLO when teaching early years learners to be early readers (or writers, mathematicians, scientists, artists...), helps to make the pathway between "I can't read that" and "I can read that and I understand it!" become visible and manageable. They don't need to know how to read it instantly - it's not luck that will help them, they just need to know how to take their very next step. This is particularly helpful I find, with those learners who are reluctant in case they make a mistake. Meeting that very next step is attainable!<br />
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SOLO Taxonomy is as applicable to 'learning to read letters' as it is to 'learning anything'.<br />
I am using it now to help me learn to share my practice more! We are all in the early stages of something!<br />
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My next steps: I am looking forward to taking part in <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/108559068621602732729" target="_blank">+Sonya Van Schaijik</a> 's <a href="http://teachmeetnz.wikispaces.com/">TeachmeetNZ</a> in October talking about using SOLO with early years learners, and presenting at Ulearn.<br />
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<br />BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-25945751256518939412014-08-20T03:28:00.000-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.878-08:00SOLO Taxonomy, planning for writing with Year 0 and Year 1This morning I tried doing something in a different way...<br />
Each morning when I call the roll, I ask each learner a question. Sometimes it might be related to our Inquiry theme, sometimes it's a question just for fun (to build relationships), sometimes I ask what they ate for breakfast (to check if they did!)... I figure I have already said "Hi" to each one as they came in, and let's face it, we have to be clever with our time management in that short face-to-face time we have with our learners - there's a LOT to pack in!!<br />
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So this morning I asked them "What is one thing that makes you feel happy?" This was a popular question that generated a lot of excitement and enthusiasm, so I diverted from the plan and offered if they would like to write about this? Overall, WALT write sentences to share a message, hear and record sounds, use a wordcard/other sources to locate and record words. Personalised IALTs are constructed with independent learners.<br />
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Ever since being introduced to SOLO, I have used the HOT maps to plan for modelling writing depending on the learning intention. I have always used a 'Sequence rubric' to plan recounts and narratives. When I first saw Pam Hook's Describe++ map a few years ago, I liked the idea of the 'See, Think, Wonder' format for framing writing, and I have used it with varying degrees of success due to my own developing understanding of how to use it effectively. <a href="http://pamhook.com/">http://pamhook.com/</a><br />
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Following Pam Hook's session at #EdchatNZ conference, I have been printing independent 'See, Think, Wonder' writing prompts (a wonderful idea from Waimairi School educators!) for my kids to use in their writing books if they choose to and think it will help them plan. <br />
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<i>"I like it because it gives me a small space to plan, my plan isn't too big now and I do more writing." </i>(from a learner whose writing goal was to put less focus on her picture plan and more on the writing!) <i>"I like it, it helps put my ideas in order."</i><br />
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I have been reflecting on how this is working with my early writers. The 'See, Think, Wonder' has been taken literally by many; most of the sentences for the early writers consisted of "I can see..." . I would be happy with two simple sentences or a compound sentence in response to the "See" part. EG "The bubble is big and round." or "The bubble is round. The bubble popped". They are not yet ready to explain ideas in written form - they can absolutely draw, and talk about it and I can scribe, but learning those first High Frequency Words (other than I, can and see) is important. We need to teach 'how' to write.<br />
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SO, today I pulled out my HOT SOLO Learning Verbs Rubric alongside the writing modeling book. I reminded myself and my learners that the 'See' is our Uni/Multistrucural part of our plan - we want to show, tell, (IDENTIFY) what we are talking about and say one, then more than one thing about it (DESCRIBE). The 'Think' is the Relational part of our plan - we want to make a connection, explain why, how, or elaborate with examples. The 'Wonder' is the part where we can consider the idea in a new way (IMAGINE, CREATE), or overall (GENERALISE) What is most important? What else could I do? What might I do now?<br />
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I handed out the plans as per, but today I scaffolded them through a different way of thinking about it. I clarified the vocab. Today we lost the 'See' in favour of identify and describe/tell us WHAT makes you feel happy. Record on the Uni/Multi box. Back to the mat. We lost the 'Think' in favour of explain and elaborate in the Relational bubble. Record your example (draw or write a note). Back to the mat. We lost the 'Wonder' in favour of imagine in the Extended Abstract; think about this differently - how could YOU help someone else to feel happy? Record your idea - draw or write a note. Back to the mat.<br />
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Now, lets use this plan of mine to turn it into.... "Sentences". I modelled using 'Think aloud' strategies, modeling errors, and editing. They helped by suggesting interesting words. Then I asked them for my feedback. We are trying out the '2 Stars (achievements against LI) and a (next step) Wish' (Louise Dempsey, The Writing Book) strategy - and of course, you can see they knew exactly where to look to decide what they 'Wish' me to do next!<br />
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The writing examples from my learners today showed an evident improvement I thought; more divergence in thinking, a range of vocabulary and HFWs used and greater success against the learning goal. I'm always 'playing' and this is but a 'snapshot in time'. My next step, I began at lunch... Will undoubtedly be posted about later this week!<br />
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Overall I think this "See, think, wonder" format is a brilliant way to introduce using SOLO to help plan for and frame writing - this time I just needed to explain the simple vocab!!! The model is simple and progressive as SOLO is and can be made simple or complex as need be to meet the LI.<br />
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<br />BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-37280593395590338682014-08-15T04:05:00.001-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.890-08:00Why SOLO Taxonomy? Answers from Year 1 learners.Who better to tell us about how SOLO Taxonomy can help make next learning steps visible, than the learners who use it?<br />
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The context (yesterday): I asked my learners to think about something they can do now, that they couldn't do when they first started school. What was something they were 'Prestructural' at? I then asked them how they thought they had learned to 'do' it? We use 'Think, Pair, Share' to allow time to process thoughts and encourage more learners to articulate their ideas (I find this especially helpful for ELLs).<br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">"SOLO Taxonomy helps my learning. I do it step by step to learn. I like learning with SOLO Taxonomy. SOLO Taxonomy goes, I don't know, then I know one thing, then I know more than one thing, after that I link my ideas, then I show other people my ideas if you are really good at doing stuff like Miss Casse is. She can show us her skills and then our skills will be better. Miss Casse is an adult, we are children. She tells us sometimes but sometimes we tell her how to spell words too." (Year 1)</span><br />
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We have visual references to SOLO Taxonomy all over our room; above the small modelling whiteboard, on the walls, HookEd Visual Rubrics <a href="http://pamhook.com/free-resources/downloadable-resources/">http://pamhook.com/free-resources/downloadable-resources/</a> on the tables, and specific rubrics displayed for most of our learning goals.We talk about 'what' <b>and</b> 'how' we are learning frequently so it becomes simply 'what they do'. They quickly adopt SOLO language of learning, the symbols, and more importantly, what they stand for. I find it really helps them to know how to give each other specific feedback about their learning goals when they share work with each other.<br />
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"What are some living things that you know about?" (Intro to a 'Living World' Science focus)</div>
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BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-82509662880887447532014-08-12T03:08:00.002-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.939-08:00Getting started with SOLO Taxonomy in a New Entrant or ECE Learning EnvironmentSo having explored ways to introduce SOLO Taxonomy to our early years learners, I have found my most effective way; help them learn to physically 'DO' something while VISIBLY referring to the SOLO symbols and explaining the levels. <br />
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I think every class has some set routines that we expect our students to follow to prepare for the day, and every teacher of early years learners knows that teaching these 'routines' (or the unwritten curriculum) are as important as teaching the curriculum areas!<br />
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I ask myself: What is one thing I wish my learners would do, that they can't to now? I want to make it useful! Yes I want them to learn about the levels of SOLO Taxonomy, but I want to make it purposeful!<br />
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<li>My learners aren't getting <i>themselves </i>ready for learning in the morning. (Prestructural at preparing themselves for the school day in my classroom)</li>
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<b>But... They can't read yet!</b> No problem - most of them are great 'talkers' let's talk about this a lot!<br />
Let's use the SOLO hand signs <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/100634142400163970712" target="_blank">+Pam Hook</a> created.<br />
Let's take photos of what these actions look like and place them beside the symbols.<br />
Let's model and act it out.<br />
Let's draw ourselves doing each action.<br />
Get the oral language skills flowing!<br />
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If you are unistructural at using SOLO with your learners, you may wish to create the rubric yourself - but do use Pam Hook's SOLO Learning Outcome generator!<a href="http://pamhook.com/solo-apps/learning-intention-generator/">http://pamhook.com/solo-apps/learning-intention-generator/</a> to save you time & energy - she did this for us!<br />
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If you are using SOLO already, you might like to try co-constructing the rubric with your learners - Ask the above question of your kids: What do <b>we </b>need to do to get ready for learning? And add the SOLO symbols and vocab as they give their responses.<br />
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Here's a rubric my class co-created with me this year in week 1:<br />
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BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-65003480377621931112014-08-11T05:22:00.002-07:002014-11-15T15:34:23.913-08:00Why Visibly Learning in the Early Years?2010 was transformational for me. I noticed & connected with SOLO Taxonomy (Biggs & Collis,1982) thanks to the outstanding <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/100634142400163970712" target="_blank">+Pam Hook</a> @arti_choke<br />
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I <u>noticed </u>it because I HAD to - I was expected to help lead a curriculum that was underpinned by it!<br />
I <u>connected </u>with it because I HAD to - once I experienced the 'lightbulb' moment, I couldn't ignore the beam! SOLO made sense. It's learning! The world and all learning experiences around me began to be translated into rubrics. The learning process became so visible!<br />
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I have my own inquisitive, thoughtful young learner, who is my greatest teacher too; who delights and inspires me every single day.<br />
I teach early years learners (Year 0/1)<br />
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When, during my own life, was I exposed to the greatest amount of new experiences?<br />
Aren't our youngest children <b>so </b>experienced at exploring their world?<br />
<i>Opening their eyes, noticing the world, creating connections with those around them... Discovering how to make their body move in different ways, learning that certain actions invoke reactions from those around them... Exploring with their senses, touching, smelling, tasting... First days at Kohanga Reo, kindergarten, playcentre... Then school... It's all new!</i><br />
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I started asking questions. Lots of questions! Of myself, my practice, my pedagogy, (which I have always identified as a 'work in progress')<br />
"Why", "but why", and probably most importantly, "why NOT?" <i>Doesn't that sound like it's straight out of the mouth of a 2 year old?</i><br />
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Q. How often did I talk with my learners about 'what' they were 'doing'? A. Quite a lot.<br />
Q. How often did I talk with my learners about how they are 'doing' it? A. Less often.<br />
Q. How often did I talk with my learners about where else they might 'do' this? A. Less often again.<br />
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How often did I 'simplify' words to 'help' my early years learners understand something that adults perceive to be too difficult for them to understand?<br />
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Pam profoundly spoke at Learning @ Schools in 2010 about dinosaurs and pokemon; if a young child can manage the words Tyrannosaurus Rex, why shouldn't we expect them to use the correct learning verbs?<br />
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As a younger learner, I think I missed that week at school when we changed 'Let's write about...' to 'Write a detailed analysis of...' Detail - fine, analysis - huh?<br />
I loved writing, but I always seemed to find a 'C' or at best a 'B' on my paper! I didn't know HOW to improve; how to keep that B, or turn it into an A! I thought it was just the luck of the draw. I felt like I tried hard. I wrote my notes, regurgitated facts, lots of them. Some kids were just 'Smart'. Insight about SOLO and Mindsets now explains for me exactly where I was going wrong!<br />
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My Learning Outcomes were at best Multistructural. I had my facts, but I wasn't aware of how to connect them or when I was connecting them, let alone applying them to an overall understanding or new context. It wasn't about me, it was about HOW I was learning and representing it. It wasn't about lack of effort, it was about<u> </u>misguided effort.<br />
SOLO Taxonomy labels the learning, not the learner, but even better, the learner can identify their very next step in order to improve the learning. <br />
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WHAT IF I taught my learners to notice the HOW of learning from DAY 1 at school?<br />
Help to make the learning process VISIBLE so they could apply it to learning anything?<br />
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What if I VISIBLY learned with them? We are all learners, right? We all have Prestructural understandings about things, we all have Extended Abstract understandings too, and I'm sure some talent IS natural, but isn't there always room for more learning? I don't see Extended Abstract as a finite end - it could be depending on the learning goal, but it could be the beginning of the next goal too.<br />
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What if I made my own learning VISIBLE beyond my classroom?<br />
Thanks to <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/108559068621602732729" target="_blank">+Sonya Van Schaijik</a> #edchatnz meme challenge, I had to, now because I have enjoyed this, I want to.<br />
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I find SOLO is so cleverly simple, but can be made as complex as the learning intention requires it to be!<br />
If you need to find out more about SOLO Taxonomy as I did - your next step must be toward our own NZ guru <a href="http://pamhook.com/">http://pamhook.com/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: magenta;">SO now I'm Visibly Learning with my Early Years Learners, and in the Early Years of my own Next steps... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: magenta;">Now I'm visibly sharing too! </span><br />
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Next Step: Write a shorter blog! :-)<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unsure if it was an intentional or unintentional move...but it's worked- thank you! My blog has been sitting, unused for a long, LONG time so it's high time I made a move from Prestructural to Unistructural in my blogging journey. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What better way than to celebrate the virtual & f2f connections that were made at the #edchatnz Conference this weekend?</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Connected f2f with lots of people who I've respected hugely on Twitter for a long time. </span><span style="line-height: 1.3859999656677247;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.3859999656677247; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Had a Post It on the head moment with <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/102787968215414097514" target="_blank">+Danielle Myburgh</a> <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MissDtheTeacher" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none !important; white-space: normal;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">MissDtheTeacher</span></a> </span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3859999656677247; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/102485571535790610352" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3859999656677247; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">+Matt Nicoll</a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3859999656677247; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://twitter.com/mattynicoll" style="text-decoration: none;">@mattynicoll</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3859999656677247; white-space: pre-wrap;">& </span><a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/111588569617959365906" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3859999656677247; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">+Maurie Abraham</a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3859999656677247; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/maurieabraham" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Gotham Narrow SSm, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14.399999618530273px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none !important;">maurieabraham</span></a> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3859999656677247; white-space: pre-wrap;">showing our SOLO level of enabling connections. Bringing another level to face 2 face perhaps! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Had a 'coding in the carpark connection' with <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/107610950287702142890" target="_blank">+Tanya Gray</a> </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/tanya" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none !important;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">tanya</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3859999656677247; white-space: pre-wrap;">Glasses Grelfie with <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/111388011887880203757" target="_blank">+Justine Driver</a> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 34px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/digitallearnin" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; line-height: 34px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; line-height: 34px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; line-height: 34px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">digitallearnin</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3859999656677247; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span class="screen-name" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;"><a class="pretty-link js-nav" data-send-impression-cookie="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/AKeenReader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">@AKeenReader</a> </span><img alt="Embedded image permalink" height="240" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BujCF9aCMAA-ED6.jpg" width="320" /><br />
SOLO Grelfie (hehe) with <a href="https://twitter.com/mattynicoll" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.3799991607666px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@mattynicoll</span></a><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.3799991607666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="ProfileTweet-originalAuthor u-floatLeft u-textTruncate js-action-profile-name" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0024b3; display: inline !important; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 14px; max-width: 60%; overflow: hidden !important; text-overflow: ellipsis !important; white-space: nowrap !important; word-wrap: normal !important;"><span class="ProfileTweet-screenname u-inlineBlock u-dir" dir="ltr" style="color: #8899a6; direction: ltr !important; display: inline-block !important; font-size: 13px; max-width: 100%; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a class="ProfileTweet-originalAuthorLink u-linkComplex js-nav js-user-profile-link" data-user-id="16581893" href="https://twitter.com/vanschaijik" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0024b3; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span class="at">@</span>vanschaijik</a> </span></span><br />
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Dancing Grelfie with <span class="screen-name" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #66757f; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;"><a class="pretty-link js-nav" data-send-impression-cookie="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/JennieSStewart" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3b88c3; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">@JennieSStewart</a> </span><span class="screen-name" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">(who not only cracked but smashed out of her egg & began making an omelette!) and </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ariaporo22" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: #8899a6; font-family: Gotham Narrow SSm, sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none !important;">ariaporo22</span></a> </div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just one other member from our staff, I will make it happen next year! It only takes that very 'next step to begin the dance...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because of who suggested it, I know it will benefit my personal learning journey. #personalisedlearning for teachers too!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. What is one thing you plan to do to continue the Education Revolution you learnt about at #EdchatNZ?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm going to wear my lanyard proudly - I want people to ask "What's that?" To which I will answer "Instant access to a genuine community of not great, but brilliant, innovative, energetic, educators. What more could we need?" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our answers are truly in our room - but even better, we are asking each other big, important questions & inspiring each other to dig deeper.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am going to make the MOST out of the incredibly generous offer from </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/CognitionEdu" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f5f8fa; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #8899a6; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: #8899a6; font-family: Gotham Narrow SSm, sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none !important;">CognitionEdu</span></a> to spend a day with my eduhero! What a fantastic way to keep the learning and collaborating going - I am very lucky!<br />
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I will present on using SOLO & visible learning strategies with Early Years Learners at #TeachMeetNZ and at ULearn for #CENZ14<br />
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Oops - that's more than 1... It <b>is </b>my personal project to share more!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3859999656677247;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm not sure if anyone's</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> canvas is blank, or they are all already full. </span></span></span><br />
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Listly challenge: Check!<br />
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SOLO Learning outcome: Unistructural and guess what...I know my next step. ;-)<br />
Thanks everyone for adding so much to my learning this weekend.<br />
Have a fabulous week!BridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.com0