Direct Instruction
The learning intention for this lesson was to work collaboratively towards a shared project.
The video shows teacher instruction. It then shows students participating in a learning experience where they share information which will be required for a collaborative movie to be completed successfully.
Reflection
The children were also extremely engaged in this process and have enough experience with making movies to know what is required. Use of spreadsheets was relatively new to most students and frustrations around working in the same cell as someone else and people's work being deleted were evident. Perhaps doing more front loading on how spreadsheets works would have been useful.
It wasn't entirely noticeable to me until I watched the video back, that the students were not sharing their ideas freely between each other and communication was sparse. There are multiple reasons why this could be, one being the fact the students were putting a lot of their energy into figuring out how to navigate and use spreadsheets in a collaborative manner.
Things to note
Lots of direction was needed during the time when students were off working on the spreadsheet, particularly around working in separate cells. This is sometimes noticeable in the second part of the video, where I am speaking to students as they work. Because of this, there isn't as much student voice as I would have hoped.
Learning Intention
We are learning to work effectively with others towards a shared project
Instructions
Brainstorm the various roles that are needed to successfully create a Manaiakalani film festival movie.
Open the blank Checklist template.
Make new sheets for each of the roles that you brainstormed. Under each new sheet, write "items" that need to be completed by each of these people or teams of people.
Manaiakalani Education Trust
PO Box 18 061, Glen Innes
Auckland, New Zealand
