Marie-Hélène Fasquel's Learning Diary for the Creative Use of Tablets in Schools Course by Marie-Hélène FASQUEL

1. Marie-Hélène Fasquel -- Language and literature teacher (American OIB course)

mhfasquel — 2015-04-18 14:07:00 UTC

Hello! I teach literature in a flipped learning context. I use flipped resources in a very personal way (the way which meets my student's needs and mine. I'm shaing a link to slides explaining my teaching context. And my second post will be a link to my teaching blog. Looking forward to working with you, collaborating and sharing!

I am an IT enthusiast and keep trying teaching in innovative ways with colleagues from all over the world. We were 16 from 8 different countries last year.

Marie.

2. My blog

mhfasquel — 2015-04-18 14:12:44 UTC

I teach 15 to 17-year-old students. My school is brand new and we have labs, tablets which we can ask for (about 88 for the whole school).

3. Resource 1 -- scoop it about literature and IT

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4. Resource 2 -- scoop it about flipped learning

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5. Module 1 --- Questions 1.2

mhfasquel — 2015-04-18 14:44:20 UTC

The main reason is that I truly believe that our first goal as teachers is to help students think critically and become creative. Using tablets is one of the best ways to succeed. It is also engaging and engaging students is the first step required to help them improve and enjoy their learning.

6. Module 1 --- Questions 1.3

mhfasquel — 2015-04-18 15:03:51 UTC

I have started using tablets in my school. And the main challenges so far have been getting access to the tablets (only about 80 for the whole school, which need to be booked, got and returned within the class time frame) and of course teacher training. Moreover the students cannot get access to the tablets outside of class.

How to address these issues?

I am addressing the problem of teacher training right now thanks to this awesome course!

I have also taken part in a one-day training session at y school and have been doing online curation about tablets for years.

For the number of tablets, I try to only book them when I absolutely need them as we need to share with all the other interested teachers.

As for students getting access to tablets outside class time, this needs to be addressed with the IT technicians.

7. Module 1 -- Questions 1.4

mhfasquel — 2015-04-18 15:12:03 UTC

The most challenging issues are now: making sure all the students are on task, and not on Facebook for instance, and are working collaboratively and not hoping their team will do all the work!

To address this issue, I walk around and help all the groups who need my assistance and try and make sure they're all on task and ok!

8. Module 1 -- Questions 1.5

mhfasquel — 2015-04-18 15:12:15 UTC

I have used it especially for older students (university, trainees...) as I use eTwinning for my classes and don't want to use 2 different virtual environments for them :) But I love Edmodo because it's easy to use, the students love it (it's very similar to Facebook), it's easy to find like-minded motivated teachers from al over the world to collaborate!:)

9. Module 1 -- Edmodo

mhfasquel — 2015-04-18 15:26:23 UTC

My edmodo profile -- feel free to connect!!:)

10. The 50 best education apps for Android tablets

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11. ipad in the classroom on Pinterest

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12. One of my favourite resources

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13. One more resource

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14. Module 2 Question 2.1

mhfasquel — 2015-04-18 18:58:20 UTC

Hello! I have used a similar scenario in some of my projects but espacially in the project I'll share with you as an attachment.

Samanta Parise

maestrasamy — 2015-04-20 07:05:17 UTC

I love kahoot

thanks for the message !:) Marie H

15. Module 2 -- Question 2.2

mhfasquel — 2015-04-20 16:20:46 UTC

What kind of content can you produce with your class?

Post at least one idea for content you could produce together with your students that has a wider purpose and meaning than just the classroom activity. Make sure this is realistic and - very importantly - something that you think your students will care about. Maybe you have already done something similar in the past (with or without tablets), so why not share examples on the padlet and tell us about your experience.

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I could ask my students to produce an ebook about literary movements (collaborative work) as a class and share it with my other classes.

I have asked my students (and students from different countries) to write collaborative ebooks to defend the environment and it could be done differently with tablets now! Here is a link to one of the collaborative ebooks.

16. Module 2 -- Question 2.3

mhfasquel — 2015-04-20 18:07:46 UTC

Share your content creations with your peers. Post your links, files, images, etc. here and add a short description of how you created it (what app, what type of tablet, etc.)

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Hello!

Here is the content I've just created for anyone who is interested in learning more about the course I'm teaching (American language and literature course). I did it with Issuu on my computer as I do not have any ipad with me (my school has only ipads) but I will try another app such as book creator when I'm back to school (I'm currently on holidays).

What I love about Issuu is the sheer easiness of the process. You include all the text and images you want in a word doc and then turn it into a pdf. Issuu does all the rest!

18. Module 3 . Task 3.1

mhfasquel — 2015-04-28 06:17:51 UTC

How do you form groups of students for group work and why do you take this approach? Based on your experience what strategies of forming groups work and which do not work?
I usually form groups of small sizes as I think you work well in smaller groups (above 4 does not seem to work and there are bound to be excluded students). I ask students to choose their team as they will work better with people they enjoy working with. This always works. I've never tried selecting the teams myself. In a project, I want to give as much freedom to the students as I can in order to help them be creative and engaged. Selecting the team members would go against it.

19. Module 4 -- Task 3.2

mhfasquel — 2015-04-28 06:24:10 UTC

During collaborative projects (which all my projects are) I make sure all the students are on task and have a specific task by going fom group to group and asking them about their current activities and how I can help/support them in their endeavours.
It works pretty well generally speaking.
I also set time limits :)How do you keep your students focused and on track during collaborative projects? How do you ensure all students contribute to the task? If you have organised a similar project share your experiences (positive and negative) here.

20. Module 3 -- Task 3.3

mhfasquel — 2015-04-28 06:32:03 UTC

I am an experienced eTwinner and have been devising eTwinning collaborative projects for several years The latest ones involved the flipped classroom and fighting for causes, as well as literature but no tablets.

21. Module 4 .

mhfasquel — 2015-04-28 06:43:29 UTC

Know any other apps to support collaborative learning?
edmodo
google doc
titanpad

22. Module 3 -- What strategies have you used to assess group work? What are the main challenges for you when it comes to assessing group work?

mhfasquel — 2015-04-28 06:51:03 UTC

I have asked students to share the tasks, I have kept track of what they were doing separately and together but it's something I find very difficult (to assess group work).

23. Module 3. Task 4.1

mhfasquel — 2015-05-08 07:21:59 UTC

How do you gather information about the learning styles of your students?

I go from group to group and focus on what each student is doing and try and see how
things work best for them. I also ask them to fill questionnaires (not on how they work best but on which activities they liked best and so on and usually it
helps see what works best for the students.)
How do you know what types of learners there
are?
I observe them and ask them to fill in questionnaires.
What are good strategies to identify this?
Always focus on the students’ learning styles/ways.
Is it enough to simply ask the students as is done in the video above?
I don’t think so. Observing them, seeing what they are the best at helps a lot too.
Are the students, are we, always fully aware of how we learn best?

Definitely not!

24. Module 4. Task 3.1

mhfasquel — 2015-05-08 07:24:55 UTC

What other ways can you think of how tablets can be used to personalise the learning experience of your students?
We can personalise the learning experience of our students in many ways: my students were working on an international speech contest. They worked in sub-groups and researched the Internet to see how to best perform a speech (on TED), have made their videos on the ipads.

25. Module 4 -- Task 4.2

mhfasquel — 2015-05-08 07:46:11 UTC

Yes, I have experimented it in an eTwinning project with 16 colleagues from 8 different countries last year and it was verty positive. Here are the project slides if you'd like to learn more about this English language project :)

26. Module 4 -- Flipped classroom research

mhfasquel — 2015-05-08 07:47:00 UTC

27. Module 4 (task 4.5)

mhfasquel — 2015-05-08 07:56:46 UTC

The key challenge to my mind is to make sure they do their work at home. In my experience, it's all right for most of them though.
My second challenge was that some students felt they were not "learning", they were too used to traditional lessons!!!!!! But I converted them after a while! ;)

28. My favourite flipping the classroom app -- TED ed

mhfasquel — 2015-05-08 07:59:39 UTC

29. One of my ted ed videos for literature or esl teachers

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30. MY LESSON PLAN

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31. And a link to my blog :)

mhfasquel — 2015-05-09 07:59:25 UTC