E-book

After skimming through the folders, I found this e-book which I have produced for resources. 😛 It seemed to be a perfecto edition last time but now hurmmmm!!!! Definitely, it needs some improvements.

The first change I had made is on the cover page. I wonder why it did not click my mind when I was doing it last time. May be I’m too stupid when it comes to ICT…Huahuahua…
Before

After

The second alternation will be in term of layout. Instead of squeezing the picture and text, I choose to vary the slides layout to cater the pupils. Besides that, I enlarged the font in order to make the text more visible to young learners. Taking into account the language focus, I enlarged the adjectives’ font too. This, I believe will help me or any other use to highlight them during teaching and learning process.
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After

Next modification will be in the form of additional slides to question the kids on the language focus. This will add to the interactive-ness of my e-book as it gets the pupils to recall their learning and keeps them focused.

The last amendment I made was meant to enhance the pupils’ thinking skills by asking for justification. Besides that, this space can be utilised by the teacher to inculcate the moral which I think will be more effective rather than presented the text form by the end of the e-book.

Hereby I present the outdated and updated versions of my e-book. Definitely, in a year time or even less, more transformation can be done to my e-book.
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After

To me, what is important is I keep myself updated with the latest techno in the education market.:)

“Personalised learning means assessment, teaching, curriculum and school strategies designed to ensure that the talents of every individual can be fully realised. It aims to raise standards for all by setting high expectations based on a sound knowledge and understanding of every child.”
Five key tools for personalized learning have been broadly identified. They are assessment for learning, a wide range of teaching strategies, the enablement of curriculum choice, the organization of the school and engagement with the wider community to develop the whole child.
Mr. Miliband, http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachers/issue31/primary/features/Whatdoespersonalisedlearningmeantoyou_Primary/

After reading further on personalized learning and analyzing the chart above, i have came about with the lesson plan below.
Year: 4
Topic: Outdoor activities
Learning outcome:
3.8 Read and understand simple texts for main ideas, supporting details, sequence, and cause and effect
Procedures:

1. Teacher conducts the ‘Hangman’ game to get to the topic of the day, outdoor activities.
2. Teacher divides the pupils into four groups.
3. Teacher distributes an envelope to each group which contains pictures of different activities.
4. Teacher asks the kids to categorise the pictures into groups.
5. Pupils discuss in groups and categorise the pictures.
6. Teacher asks pupils to move from one group to another to look at the others’ answers.
7. Pupils read the story and shares their feelings/ experiences.
8. Teacher distributes task sheet which requires the pupils to list while reading the story.
9. Teacher explains the requirement of the task sheet.
10. Pupils read the story for the second time and attempts to complete the task.
11. Teacher asks the pupils to evaluate their categorization according to the task sheet completed.
12. Teacher asks pupils to develop an event planner for a new outdoor activity of their interest.
13. Teacher suggests templates in word document and power-point presentation form.
14. Pupils using computer and online resources develop their own outdoor activity planner which they mail to their teacher.
15. Teacher conducts a short quiz on the categorization of activities.
16. Option: Teacher suggest to pupils to develop a plan for a birthday celebration

I WISH I CAN TRY THIS OUT!!!!!!

Before discussion.
The process of creating the game for our group started with Sham telling us that “Who wants to be a millionaire? game need to be adapted into classroom”. When Sham told me about the task, I was having the idea of testing grammar using the game. But when I went through the task requirement, then I realized that it should be topic-specific. So, I evaluated the three topics my group has chosen and I felt that a wide range of questions can be generated for the topic on vacation. Hence, I decided to suggest the topic during discussion. After looking at all the templates, I was impressed by the second template mainly due to the colours and features. Thus, I planned to propose the template to my group members.

Discussion
The discussion started with picking up the template and choosing the topics. All my group members agreed to my suggestion because they also felt the same way. Then, someone suggested changing the title. Many of us agreed but we ended up not changing the topic. Why? It is because we felt that children should be intrinsically motivated towards the lesson. Giving stickers or cookies will only generate competition for the reward instead of knowledge. Thus, we decided not to change the topic.

Once we reached an agreement on that, we moved to the process of generating questions. We decided to arrange the questions according to increasing complexity as we wanted the children to experience success in learning. Thus, we created questions in five categories of difficulties. While creating the question, we got the idea of cutting across the curriculum. Hence, we incorporated mathematics, history and geography into our game.

Presentation.
It was a bad day for us as we faced some difficulties and reached the class late. We started our presentation confidently but I was shocked to see the slides. It looked nice on the laptop screen but appeared to be very dull once got flashed. That taught us to be more careful during preparation. Next disaster kit us when the audio does not work. All our effort went into drain and it added to dullness of the game. Now, at this moment of writing, I realize that we should have prepared a backup plan for the audio.

After presentation
At this moment of reflecting, I would like to share what I have learnt out of the lecture week.
1. Necessity is mother of all invention- The need to adapt the game as have taught me to be creative in developing teaching materials for children
2. Suitability- I have learnt the fact that a lot of considerations such as colour contrast and fonts need to be taken into account as I’ll be teaching primary kids who gets easily bored and distracted.
3. Always have an ace up my sleeve- errors are unavoidable. those errors which occurred during presentation have taught me that I should think of the and be prepared to handle the worst situation.