Astria – Countdown to Impact

A teacher in another school has recently blogged that:

“Students don’t learn much playing this game called Astria – Countdown to Impact: Their time could be better spent doing other things”.

I partly disagree with this statement because Astria is a learning game. If the goal wasn't to learn then it wouldn't be classified as a learning game. The main learning aspect of Astria is to understand how to identify a reliable piece of text. Not only that but you can also learn new vocabulary such as the word schematic. Also this game makes you think about the best way to solve a problem, you also must give evidence as to why you choose that solution and not one of the others.

However, I do see where this teacher is coming from and understand them. They may of had higher expectations for this game after using games such as StudyLadder, Mathletics or other games like that. They could've believed that this game fell short of games such as StudyLadder because of the reason that this game has ending and once you finished the game you have to restart and you would just be replaying the same story over and over again. However with games like StudyLadder there is no end, the longer you go you different types of questions. They may have been under the impression that it was going to include different types of learning such as maths, writing, science and technology.

Teacher Strike Infographic

WALT: create an infographic to show our understanding

In this task, we created an infographic about the teacher strike using the information we got from our survey. We used a variety of presentation styles e.g. pie charts, bar charts, donut charts, words, fractions, percentages etc. 

Whilst doing this task I realized that many teachers have big classrooms and also that the majority of them agreed with the strike.

I worked by myself in this task and I think I did quite well because I managed to catch up to the rest of the class really quickly. Also once I figured how to do it efficiently it became easy.

Teacher Strike Storyboard

WALT: form our own opinion after considering both sides of the story

Above is a storyboard and a DLO about the teacher strike and how some people have different opinions about it. 

In this task we had to understand why some people agree with the strike and why some disagree with it. We also had to research different opinions about the strike. Some of the negative opinion's that we discovered were Mike Hosking.

Solvemoji 16/08/18

This morning as a maths warm up I did solvemoji once again. This was one of the more challenging questions that was presented. However I still found it quite easy.

Collaborative Problem Solving

Today we did Collaborative Problem Solving. This is the DLO that I did on it. I found this quite easy and unchallenging to do.

Persuasive Element in Famous Speeches

WALT:Identify persuasive language in a text.

Today me and my buddy were making persuasive languages speech.
It was hard, because we had to find the video with the right persuasive languages.
It was fun finding the videos because I loved listening to their quotes.

FORREST

Walt: understand how to use FORREST to persuade

Today I worked with my buddy and together we created this
amazing DLO about FORREST (writing tactic for speeches),
it took us awhile but it was really fun. FORREST is an acronym
and it means Facts, Opinions, Rhetorical questions, Repetition,
Emotive language, Statistics and Three (groups of).