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Creativity, Mahara, Moodle, Participatory Learning, Collaborative, Makerspaces, ePortfolios, Web 2.0, Education, Literature, Literacy, Boys Education, Senior Teaching, Critical Thought, Collective Learning, Flourishing, Flourish, Positivity, Classroom Teaching, Space, teamwork, Affinity Spaces, James Gee, Animoto, Change, Educator, Professional, Seymour Papert, tinkering, having fun, engagement, informal learning, sharing, conversational, virtual, digital,TRANSCRIPT
individual and collective creativity and critical thought
Flourishing in Creative SpacesElectronic Portfolios
The Southport SchoolJill Margerison
ePortfolios Australia Webinar
We live in a world that is networked and offers new and ever evolving tools to
be creative, collaborative and connected
Mahara, Moodle, Mobile and Web 2.0
Education for the future?If the future involves innovation and creativity, how do educators
prepare students effectively? What tools do we use?
“No Man is an Island”
Business leaders look forcreativity, innovation and ‘the edge’
Well-being experts say creativity helps people
flourish and improves individual happiness
Does creativity matter?
How do we facilitate creativity and drive their motivation to produce?
What do you get kids to do in the classroom to facilitate creativity?How do they take notes today?Who are the kids writing for?
Is a participatory learning space a creative space?
Managing this space with electronic portfoliosMaking things and producing original work
‘space’ individualphysicalvirtualgroup
creativecollaborative
conversational
Students made websites using
Group assessment - often causes troubles
Kids ‘fall out’ over lack of effort
Parents get upset
Teachers get frustrated
Difficult to measure individual progress
Group work - do you like it?
Am I creative?
Creativity manifests itself in many different forms and ‘spaces’.....
take a look at our teamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AQe3f2JAPI
Cooperative Writing Spaces
MaharaUse of Tabs
Moodle discussion forums - used for cooperative homework tasks
Peers encouraging peers
Very powerful use of technology to inspire writing and confidence
Cooperative Writing Spaces
Shared Drives
What are we making?
When we make, who is our audience?
What are we expecting?
What does this mean for learning outcomes?
What does this mean for teaching outcomes?
What are we making?
Live interactive maps
Padlet
Animoto
You Tube
Thing Link
Flip Books
Discussion Forums
Does technology make teaching more fun?
What do you think?
Does creativity make you happy? Why?
How are we creative in English? Cooperative writing?
‘Build to Express’ LEGO for creativity
White board tables and Mahara
Garageband
Minecraft island creations
Makerspace
Seymour Papert
MIT mathematician, computer scientist and educator
inventing to learn
tinkering
having fun
James Gee
Affinity Spaces
spaces where people come together because they have strong interest or engagement in a common activity and as a result informal learning
newbies and masters share the space
people from all agesParticipatory culture develops
individual and collective creativity and critical thought
[email protected]@DrJMargerison
The Southport SchoolJill Margerison
E-portfolios Australia