RPI 8: Create in Reading

Today was a fun and interesting day focussing on Create Tasks. I feel like my students' digital skills are really coming along now and I’m excited to allow them more choice in their create tasks and tools. 

AI tools are something I’ve been thinking and researching about lately and the importance of our students being able to use these not only for learning tasks at school but also to allow them the opportunity to understand how others are using them. I think it’s essential for our learners to understand these tools more because they need to be able to look at things with a critical lens more now than ever before (e.g. AI to generate photos of themselves doing something that isn’t or hasn’t actually happened). And what better way to do that than to get them using them! 



Creating the One Shot Film was tricky and I cheated using three separate clips. I felt really nervous and had so many takes so this is something I need to keep working on to develop confidence.

I really enjoyed the task though and will definitely use it in my class as I think the students will enjoy making these. I'm pretty sure my learners will find it easy as they’re in front of a camera via Tik Tok etc a lot. 



Lately my students have been creating dioramas in response to stories related to our ‘Big Bad Wolf’ themed literacy unit. I’m keen to turn this into a google site so I can share it with others and also re-use it easily in the future. My students have absolutely loved being hands-on with their creations. Their next step is to record themselves explaining their diorama to others. I’m also going to capture recordings of students giving their impressions of what they think other students' dioramas are about. This will be used as a reflection tool for each creator so they can see how the audience interprets their creation.


Comments

  1. Donna @ ManaiakalaniAugust 24, 2023 at 10:29 PM

    Kia Ora Dani,
    Unfortunately I can not play the video, I was looking forward to seeing your master piece. Your Te Marama image is beautiful and I am sure the students will love creating these themselves. I agree with you on the AI tools and am looking forward to exploring these more myself as they are evolving and producing some amazing apps. I will keep an eye out for your students blog post about their dioramas.
    Donna

    ReplyDelete
  2. Kiri @ ManaiakalaniSeptember 12, 2023 at 4:11 PM

    Hi Dani, Great to hear about the create tasks your students are already doing, and I love the idea of recording them as a reflection. AI is going to be very interesting to see how we can be using this in the classrooms, I know I bookmarked a few of them that Dorothy mentioned to explore in the holidays. With more and more social media being in a video format I think our learners will be well set up with the short create task of the one shot film. Kiri

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

RPI: Day 4

Today I learnt it was ok to have both a comprehension and decoding/fluency focus for reading. Previously I have only had one as I though having two would be a bit much. By having one of each, it is allowing for a more balanced approach. Giving 'friendly definitions' for words rather than straight from the dictionary is something I do already so it was nice to know that this was ok as sometimes I've heard people say not to 'dumb things down' for learners which I don't think this approach does but made me feel a bit uneasy about doing it.  I am excited to introduce the fluency scale to the learners as this will give a good purpose for them recording their independent reading and then listening back to them. I think this will be powerful and motivate students to want to improve how they sound as a reader.  I will also use the KWL with my learners. I have never used it to connect with video or text before so this will be fun. I will be sharing the LtR protocol tool ...
Read more

RPI: Day 6

Image
  Vocabulary There are so many key aspects I want to make sure I include in my literacy programme for Term 3. The morphology components are covered in our spelling programme which is awesome but I want to make it more available by making a display with. the rules and sounds we have learnt already this year. I will also reintroduce a word wall to my class which I haven't done for a while.  I love the vocabulary activities that were provided today. I will be including these in my reading programme for sure! I will be doing a total overhaul of my literacy programme to make sure my students are getting best bang for their buck. I will be updating my timetable to become a revolving one to cater for those who come late or have other commitments throughout the day and making sure the timetable has ample time for things such as SSR, word work, shared reading... I rate myself a 3/5 for the vocab maintenance check.  Building Word Consciousness
Read more