https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c Learning Diary created during MOOC en-us 2016-09-03 16:06:14 UTC 2024-11-14 00:05:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Brightnessdown.png iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/121455592 My name is Iwona. I am Maths and ICT teacher in primary school in Wrocław, Poland.]]> 2016-09-03 16:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/121455592 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/121455651 I do love teaching. My role as a teache is to develop all skills and talents of my students and I think it is great opportunity to get to know something new:)]]> 2016-09-03 16:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/121455651 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122959965 A few years ago I found out about NASA educational project "Sally Ride EarthKAM" and I engaged my students to take a picture from the space. Now I'd like to get to know more about teaching about space and astronomy. This is an amazing opportunity to develop so many skills of my students!]]> 2016-09-11 13:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122959965 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122961484 Space Scoop has materials in Polish so it is easy for students to find something interesting. I'd like to use materials abour Solar system. ]]> 2016-09-11 14:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122961484 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122962275 I think every topic is linked to many subjects. I'd like to start our work on Solar system, for instance we could create model of the system, compare planets, theirs sizes, distance form the sun and their compositions etc. We could preapre school photo galery using photos from NASA or Hubble pictures to show pupls how beauty is the universe.]]> 2016-09-11 14:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122962275 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122962667 I am so proud:

]]> 2016-09-11 14:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122962667 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122963150 2016-09-11 15:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122963150 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122963640 You can see photos of Earth took by my students thanks to "Sally Ride EarthKAM" program:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PThtMznYgLg]]> 2016-09-11 15:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/122963640 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/124566690 My teaching style:]]> 2016-09-18 14:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/124566690 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/124567362 I am Maths teacher and sometimes like every teacher I have to spend a little time on lecturing new topics. I teach in primary schools, so my students need more help to understand some content but I always try to develop their skills. I never ask them about content. More important is to understand how to solve some problem. Very important is to engage student to learning and creating. When my student give me wrong answer I try to engage him/her to figure out what is wrong with his/her answer. It helps to learn. 
I never pretend I know everything. Nobody knows! My student can be my teacher! It is amazing in my work:)

]]> 2016-09-18 15:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/124567362 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/124571069 What are the basic steps of the scientific method?
I think the most important is a good question and using knowledge which students already have. It is necessary to engage their to common discuss, give some time for observation and reflection. ]]> 2016-09-18 16:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/124571069 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/124573788 Let's start building my own inquiry activity:
Orientation - How much money do you need a month to live with your family?
Conceptualization - how to find data, putting some hypothesis about money we need a month
Investigation- collecting data (fro instance bills), making calculations
Conclusion - comparing all calculations with hypothesis
Discussion - preparing presentation with all calculations, graphs]]> 2016-09-18 16:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/124573788 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/124575230 2016-09-18 17:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/124575230 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/126208884  How do you currently use technology? What tools do you use? 
I am passionate about use of new technology, becouse they help me in teaching and collaboration with other teachers and parents. My students work using Google Drive- they prepare presentations and documents together. We use Padlet and Tricider to share our ideas and comments. We use Calameo to create ebooks, Prezi for presentation, Smilebox and Kizoa to show our work on photos I use Kahoot and I know what my students have learnt during my classes. I use Amara to add subtitles in English on our movies in Polish. I use Twinspeace for eTwinning projects and Edmodo for global collaboration. I use tablets and mobile phone to record my students work - we publish results of our work on YouTube, school webpage and our class blog. I believe that new technologies are amazing tool for teacher and they help us to create awesome students]]> 2016-09-25 13:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/126208884 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/126211842 New activity for my classroom from The Space Awareness:
I think I could start with WOW. It seems to be easy for young students (4th graders) and interesting. They could feel as scientists and as a part of bigger community. ]]> 2016-09-25 14:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/126211842 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/126213407 Activity passed:]]> 2016-09-25 14:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/126213407 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/126213627 2016-09-25 14:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/126213627 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/126992080 I noticed stereotypes in my students' thinking, especially gender stereotypes. That's why I try to engage girls in science projects. Lot's of them felt in love in science. In my opinion parents support is very important so I always inform them about our common work or even I invite them to collaboration. It brings good results!
Now I need to show my students that women play very important role in science, that they can do whatever they want and become whoever they want. 

]]> 2016-09-28 15:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/126992080 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/127007251 Next week my students will participate in World Space Week. This is great possibility to talk about space, space knowledge. I planned with my colleagues  - teachers lot's of activities. For example we will create a model of space satelite. It will be our common work. I will involved boys and girls. We will collect information about Polish astronomers (Mikołaj Kopernik and Alex Wolszczan). We will take a photos of Earth from the space thanks to "Sally Ride EarthKAM" - I already invited also parents for this activity. Our students will observe the sky using telescopes. I also prepared kahoot quiz for students and parents about recognizing "space" movies. I hope it will be lot's of fun next week!]]> 2016-09-28 15:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/127007251 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/127010055 2016-09-28 15:41:12 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/127010055 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/127011066 2016-09-28 15:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/127011066 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/129325397  I teach maths in primary school. I can prepare task or exercises about the Solar system, about space flight and many more. My stydents can compare velocity of the space ships, sizes of planets etc. ]]> 2016-10-09 11:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/129325397 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/129330202 We have 2 known in all world astronomers: Mikołaj Kopernik and Alex Wolszczan. The second one is Polish astronomer who actually works in Pennsylvania, US. All Polish child knows the name of Mirosław Hermaszewski - the first Polish astronaut in the Space. 
This year we celebrate World Space Week and our students had possiblity to know astronauts of Polish ancestry, for instance George Zamka. 
My duty as a teacher is to encourage my students to interest of space science.  They have to belive that they can do everything. They just have to follow their dreams.]]> 2016-10-09 13:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/129330202 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/129334300 http://learningdesigner.org/viewer.php?uri=/submitted/by_user/IwonaKow/fid/be7b1c23c1be8da40b3d3b707886a9d5737ade340ce619d55435d11933318cd7]]> 2016-10-09 14:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/129334300 iwona_inka https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/129334489 2016-10-09 14:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/iwona_inka/u06tgmek7e8c/wish/129334489