Young Learners - Can Do by themselves!

 

 Yuuna introduces her family...

Meet Shuma and his family...

 This is Mashiro and her family...

Emika inroduces her family...

I'm sure you'll agree these young learners have drawn lovely portraits of their family members, and can talk really confidently about them as well! Well done Emika, Mashiro, Shuma & Yuuna: termendous project

Elementary, my dear Taisei: digital native "Can Do"

 I can totally talk about my family, and manage all the #edtech AND make a load of creative + editorial decisions on the fly, under time pressure...give me a job!

Unfortunately, Taisei is still at elementary school, but he could do a hell of a job for any number of businesses locally & trample any staffroom of high school teachers that I know of!

A young man's presentation that uni students would stuggle to beat (time taken, artwork - no eraser! -, diction and confidence, editing skills)...

Talking about my family...Sawa says

 

Sawa loves to draw, and loves to talk - I KNOW she is going to be an English teacher when she is a little bit bigger!

Here she grabbed Jim sensei's iPhone & monstered the tech to make this multi-faceted interactive presentation in no time at all. Asking really smart questions about 'how to' with intuitive ideas about what she thought she should be able to do (eg add an icon/change the colour of the background/switch sides...).

Love using students' native talents to produce a complete package - artwork, digital skills, digital navigation, decision making, composition, voice, reading skills...and a topic we all love to talk about ;)

***And a non-humble brag from Jim = he used to teach Sawa's grandmother (thank you former Young Australian of the Year - now Professor Belinda Tynan for introducing us!); grandpa brings her to class every week and they say "hello"... her older sister has been his student since she was tiny and he's worried she's going to be taller than him by the end of this year! Definition of Luna's Family!

This is my family: Riku

 

Taking advantage of Riku's lovely drawings of his family members, we used Adobe Spark Video (iPhone app) to put his commentary together - I say "we"... I showed him where the buttons/tabs/options were & he dived into creative mode like the digital native he obviously is! ("Get out of the way, Jim!").

Riku has recently joined us at Luna, and I could see his shoulders going back as he gained confidence from doing this 'first' in our group. I think you'll agree this is an awesome little project?!

Spooky places in Japan

 

After reading Wonders of the World (OUP Read & Discover graded reader), this high schooler wanted to share a couple of lesser-known places (to avoid?!) in Japan. 

Recycling a song - and avoiding having to sing?!

What do you do with a young learners song, after they've sung it once?

Milk it to death!

An idea sprang to mind - Adobe Spark Video - as a way to recap/replay/rework one of the songs from our Young Learners' text book (Everybody Up Starter from OUP). Chicken, fish, rice & beans works very nicely as a back and forth (question and response), and it's easy to switch parts half way through. So we did. I like this exercise as it gets the students to read the words - a catchy tune helps them bounce it along with proper intonation as well.

The #Edtech a bit too much for my little learners to manage alone, but they were very quickly directing me what to do - how to spell things, which icons or images they wanted, and counting each other in to record their panels, and putting panels in the correct order. Then they decided when they'd recorded their voices to their own satisfaction (after practice goes) and completed with big smiles.

Adobe Spark Video is great for this kind of 'challenge', as the sections are ideally short, and you can re-record until you are happy to move on. Looks great, seamless transitions, and piece of cake to do on your iPhone or iPad.

Your welcome!

I can virtually dance - Bon Bon with Luna 2020-style!

Massively disappointed our dance cards are BLANK tonight...except they aren't, because we did our homework a couple of weeks ago :)

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