Designing a Digital Maths Dictionary

 My main focus of inquiry this year is word vocabulary through all curriculum areas. last week my students and myself have begun putting together a digital math dictionary to help with all the math language that we have been learning over the year.

Our first slides are all around time. I have tried to keep the language child friendly while still providing the correct language. To help me do this I have three columns, the first has the maths word, second the math meaning and third I have tried to add an image to help with understanding. 

We will continue to add to this as we discover new maths language. I will also be adding the link to my class slides as from next term, so that my students can have easy access.

 

Design for learning, Teaching

 Over lockdown, to help our students to learn I was making video presentations using screencastify. This provided rewindable learning for my students. When we came back to school, and we were asked to provide Ako Ano's ( rewindable learning) for our students, I decided to continue making these video tutorials for my students to help them with their learning. 

Previously I had just recorded myself with a group of students and linked this to the Ako Ano image on their group slide on my site. I found this could be confusing, lots of different voices recorded in real time, for my students, especially if at the end of a session they couldn't remember what their learning was meant to be about. 

By changing the way I make the rewindable learning, I have become very critical on myself. I now make a point of referring back to the intended learning intentions, show examples of writing or equipment needed to complete a set task around the learning something I feel I was sometimes missing out in real time. I use the slide show as an introduction to our learning and then use screencastify to record the slides while I talk through the learning with examples for the students to view. 

This new system is also a bonus to any students who were out of the class at the time of their groups teaching or absent as they can very easily assess the learning that they may have missed.

Ako Ano   Here are my Ako Ano's (rewindable learning)