Well, it's been two weeks and we are now finishing up our finding information phase of the exhibition. During this time the students worked with their teachers and their mentors to create questions, lines of inquiry, and action plans to help focus and guide their investigations and research. The students have been using the Internet and books from the library to find lots of information! In addition, the students learned the difference between primary and secondary resources, how to write survey questions and how to conduct interviews to find and collect more information on their topic. Whew! We are tired!
One of the best parts of this phase of the exhibition was how excitedly and responsibly the students have been using technology to find out about technology! We started using Edmodo to share information and resources across the classes for students who were investigating similar lines of inquiry. It's been a great resource and one that the student have really seemed to enjoy. In addition, the students learned how to create online surveys with Google Docs and collect the information with mobile technology such as iPods, iPads and iPhones. Lastly, we've even had some students start their own blogs as a way to share what they are learning and create QR codes to encourage students in the school to visit their blog and take their online surveys! The ways and uses of technology have been amazing!
All of the hard work has paid off as the students are now moving into the next phase of the inquiry cycle which is using information. Over the course of the next week the students will be reviewing their information, sources and data and organising it all to come up with some general conclusions. From these conclusions the groups of students will be thinking about what they learned and what they want to take action on as a result of their findings. It's really going to get exciting now!
So, what has been the best part of this phase of our learning? Edmodo and the other uses of mobile technology? Finding information from interviews, surveys and websites? Balancing primary and secondary resources?
I look forward to hearing what you think!
Miss Jessica
Now we have to decide WHAT information we are going to use and HOW we will present it!!! Were the results of our SURVEYS and INTERVIEWS what we expected?? This was the most interesting fase of the process: FINDING the information now we have to ANALYZE, SYNTHESIZE, and PRESENT our results.
ReplyDeleteNow we need to use our information and also if you are using the information and you find more information use it.
ReplyDeleteLucas P 5b
We have to take action on the information we have;
ReplyDeletepresent our findings!
I think this process had been very fun for doing surveys and interviews to people
ReplyDeleteThe best part of this process was doing surveys because there you take information in a very fun way.I think Edmodo is a very interesting way for sharing our information and helping others.
Dominique Wurmann
5B
I think the best part of the process has been this because i have learned many new things about my topic and all the information has been useful.
ReplyDeleteI am very happy with my group because I fell they are working well. Now we have to focus on PREPARING and USING information like surveys, interviews, and secondary sources. And to all the groups, good luck!
to get the information that we need we used edmodo and we did surveys and interviews.also we use primary and secondary sources.
ReplyDeleteWow! Great comments everyone! I really like how enthusiastic you are all to start to synthesize and present what you have learned! I'm really looking forward to the end results! Keep working hard!
ReplyDeleteI think that exibition is great but hard you need to work a lot.
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