Chapter 9: Teaching Nouns to primary students creatively using Tangrams and Puzzles Date/Time: 1st May 2024 Wednesday 4:42 am / 1st May 2024 Wednesday 7:28 pm This is yet another very interesting post about enhancing teaching and learning using technology creatively. This post is based on my experience of working voluntarily with the amazing learners at the Ranaa Child Welfare Foundation in Peshawar, a school for street children. The lesson was about teaching nouns and I had to think about teaching nouns in a not so traditional way. I came across the idea of using tangrams (chinese puzzles - a set of 7 shapes ) that could be used to teach nouns. This was something very different and I don’t remember being taught in this way. The lesson started with the discussion about different objects in the classroom. The learners came with different objects they see in class. These were sorted into different categories like person, place, animal or thing. As a whole class we came up with a defini
Chapter 8: Exploring ISTE Standards for Students “Computational Thinker” - Part 7 Date/Time:25th April 2024 Thursday 3:23 am - 26th April 8:34 pm This is my 7th post on the ISTE Standards for Students, this time exploring a new standard “Computational Thinker”. This is also based on my key learning from the online course on ISTE about exploring ISTE student standards. This module focused on computational thinking and how to incorporate it into teaching and learning in our schools. There were in context and relevant examples shared in the course, that I will be sharing here in this post. There are some great resources that can be used to teach computational thinking in schools stated in the course and I will refer to those in the post too. This standard too has four indicators and I will try to explain each with examples. Let’s start exploring. ISTE Standard Computational Thinker 1.5 says students learn different strategies to solve difficult problems , and then they use technology re