Stretch students thinking by Thaiurie https://padlet.com/thaiuriegovender/j8bn3e9mrasg07ht Design a writing challenge for your classroom for students to write but to focus on their reading and understanding to develop their thinking skills en-us 2023-02-10 13:17:46 UTC 2023-05-04 15:17:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9e0.png Flash fiction: Peter Bayer https://padlet.com/thaiuriegovender/j8bn3e9mrasg07ht/wish/2486006416 This is an exercise to teach students how to "write tight". .While much academic writing generally demands complex sentences, flash fiction teaches students how to crystalise thought in "telling their story". Not every narrative needs to be a novel.
Example: Tell a story in six words ... this from Hemingway:

For sale. baby shoes. Never worn.


Ask students to write a story in, say, 10 words.


]]> 2023-02-17 06:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/thaiuriegovender/j8bn3e9mrasg07ht/wish/2486006416 Word clouds - Pieter Fourie https://padlet.com/thaiuriegovender/j8bn3e9mrasg07ht/wish/2487038099 Requests students to use this link: Free Word Cloud Generator to generate individual word clouds using the LUs and the corresponding themes for each LU in their module's module outline (before). It can be a word cloud for the LUs in its entirety, but also for individual LUs. Create work groups in class to discuss each student's word cloud (during) and come to an agreement and create a workgroup word cloud (after). 
It will address the tertiary preferences of Gen Y students, namely  "teamwork, structure, interactivity, and image-rich environments." Source: "Generation Y students: Appropriate learning styles and teaching approaches in the economic and management sciences faculty"]]> 2023-02-18 10:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/thaiuriegovender/j8bn3e9mrasg07ht/wish/2487038099 Creating a fill in the blanks task (Leroo): In Maths, Science or any subject, you could ask students to create a fill-in-the-blank task with their main takeaways from the lecture/lecture concepts. A peer should then answer this. This will assist with grammar, as they would have to be meticulous for their sentences to make sense. As well as, it will develop their understanding and thinking skills on the concepts/subject matter and also skills of task creating. https://padlet.com/thaiuriegovender/j8bn3e9mrasg07ht/wish/2487568324 2023-02-19 14:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/thaiuriegovender/j8bn3e9mrasg07ht/wish/2487568324 Bruce Vervliet: Law of Enterprise Structures: LU3 Activity 1 – LO3: ....................................................................................Your friend Gary has recently converted his Close Corporation into a Private Company. His Private Company is approached by one of the creditors from the old Close Corporation, demanding payment on an outstanding invoice in the name of the old Close Corporation. He approaches you for legal advice on the potential liability of his newly formed Private Company. Gary believes that the Private Company cannot be liable for this debt as the invoice is in the name of the old Close Corporation. He also believes that the old Close Corporation cannot be liable for this debt as this legal entity no longer exists...............Use your writing skills to: 1. Identify the legal principle the question is concerned with. 2. Set out and explain the law.3. Apply the law to the facts. 4. Advise Gary if his thinking is correct. https://padlet.com/thaiuriegovender/j8bn3e9mrasg07ht/wish/2489195508 2023-02-21 04:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/thaiuriegovender/j8bn3e9mrasg07ht/wish/2489195508 Thaiurie - TNST 6311 thaiuriegovender https://padlet.com/thaiuriegovender/j8bn3e9mrasg07ht/wish/2559828853 I asked students to write a journal article as as an after class activity
You are have been given the task of writing a 250 article in a teacher's weekly newsletter in your district as a Natural Science and technology teacher write about the possible introduction of STEM education in South Africa based on global trends around the implementation of STEM in the schools to inspire young learners to be inspired to take an interest in STEM and how it relates to the 4th Industrial revolution especially when we think of combining materials and how it can better society
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