View our unit plan here
If you experience any difficulty viewing the rubrics, click here for the blog rubrics and here for the news report writing rubric.
Assessment Weightage for News Report Writing:
(1) Peer evaluation (50%)
(2) Teacher assessment (50%)
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Why IBL?
We have chosen IBL as the pedagogical framework to design an interdisciplinary unit on the Sri Lanka conflict.
Why? We feel that students would be able to discover the case study on their own. It espouses investigation, exploration, search, quest, research, pursuit, and study. Inquiry does not stand alone, it engages, interests and challenges students to connect their world with the curriculum. We think that IBL is appropriate in learning about history as 'we enable our students to draw on the knowledge and wisdom of the past while using the technology of the present for advancing new discoveries for the future'.
Why? We feel that students would be able to discover the case study on their own. It espouses investigation, exploration, search, quest, research, pursuit, and study. Inquiry does not stand alone, it engages, interests and challenges students to connect their world with the curriculum. We think that IBL is appropriate in learning about history as 'we enable our students to draw on the knowledge and wisdom of the past while using the technology of the present for advancing new discoveries for the future'.
Monday, June 1, 2009
In My Eyes...Designing E-Learning Activity on "Citizenship Journalism"
Technology Tools for EL and Humanities: Blogs, YouTube, and Googledoc
Topic: Conflict in Sri Lanka
Focus: Impact of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka
Objectives:
1) To analyse historical background against which students would base their EL report
2) To allow students to repackage content information and re-present different perspectives involved in the Sri Lankan conflict
Target: Sec 3 E/NA
Learning outcome: Writing a News Article
Raising Awareness:
1. You are required to watch the two videos detailing the recent Sri Lankan conflict and the impact on its people.
Video on Impacts of Sri Lanka Conflict (1)
Video on Impacts of Sri Lanka Conflict (2)
2. You are also required to read the necessary content from both your Social Studies textbook and the hyperlinks given.
Links to read:
UN report
Link 2
Link to infolanka
Powerpoint slideshow
Structuring Consolidation:
1. On your individual blogs, you have to discuss the Social Impacts of the Sri Lankan conflict on either a Tamil or a Sinhalese perspective. The even index numbers will assume the perspective of a Tamil while the odd index numbers will assume a Sinhalese.
2. You are also required to provide a rebuttal to the perspective that your friend has assumed.
Facilitating Assessment for Learning:
1. Imagine you are a reporter assigned to cover the recent Sri Lankan Conflict.
2. Report on the situation you saw on the video and the content from your peers’ blogs.
3. Adopt the format and structural aspects of Report Writing that you have been taught in the previous lesson.
4. You have to include both perspectives in your report.
Enabling Application:
1. Pupils would have been prepared beforehand how to write a News Article.
2. Once you have completed you article, share you article with classmates through Google Documents.
3. Provide feedback on your classmates’ work by pointing out any gaps/ errors in content as well as any grammatical errors.
Guiding Discovery:
1. Through the blogs, you have the opportunity to discuss and brainstorm on the relevant ideas to complete this assignment.
2. Use the time given fruitfully.
Instructing Explicitly:
1. You may refer to the model articles provided by your teacher.
2. You may also go the online grammar resources on the use of connectors to aid you in your task.
Topic: Conflict in Sri Lanka
Focus: Impact of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka
Objectives:
1) To analyse historical background against which students would base their EL report
2) To allow students to repackage content information and re-present different perspectives involved in the Sri Lankan conflict
Target: Sec 3 E/NA
Learning outcome: Writing a News Article
Raising Awareness:
1. You are required to watch the two videos detailing the recent Sri Lankan conflict and the impact on its people.
Video on Impacts of Sri Lanka Conflict (1)
Video on Impacts of Sri Lanka Conflict (2)
2. You are also required to read the necessary content from both your Social Studies textbook and the hyperlinks given.
Links to read:
UN report
Link 2
Link to infolanka
Powerpoint slideshow
Structuring Consolidation:
1. On your individual blogs, you have to discuss the Social Impacts of the Sri Lankan conflict on either a Tamil or a Sinhalese perspective. The even index numbers will assume the perspective of a Tamil while the odd index numbers will assume a Sinhalese.
2. You are also required to provide a rebuttal to the perspective that your friend has assumed.
Facilitating Assessment for Learning:
1. Imagine you are a reporter assigned to cover the recent Sri Lankan Conflict.
2. Report on the situation you saw on the video and the content from your peers’ blogs.
3. Adopt the format and structural aspects of Report Writing that you have been taught in the previous lesson.
4. You have to include both perspectives in your report.
Enabling Application:
1. Pupils would have been prepared beforehand how to write a News Article.
2. Once you have completed you article, share you article with classmates through Google Documents.
3. Provide feedback on your classmates’ work by pointing out any gaps/ errors in content as well as any grammatical errors.
Guiding Discovery:
1. Through the blogs, you have the opportunity to discuss and brainstorm on the relevant ideas to complete this assignment.
2. Use the time given fruitfully.
Instructing Explicitly:
1. You may refer to the model articles provided by your teacher.
2. You may also go the online grammar resources on the use of connectors to aid you in your task.
Assembling an e-Learning Activity Center
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E-learning caters to the needs of various types of learners; from the kinesthetic, visual to the multimodal learner. Check out the multiple platforms that we have and how it benefits any student!
E-learning caters to the needs of various types of learners; from the kinesthetic, visual to the multimodal learner. Check out the multiple platforms that we have and how it benefits any student!
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