As we’ve discussed, I believe 3D Design and Minecraft is a great combination for cross-curricular active learning opportunities. Giving them the time and space to play with and manipulate shapes to create something new for their world and giving them tasks while also teaching math & technology is a wondrous bundle and is a win for everyone. With the right vocabulary this, like many subjects, can be taught within the language. It could be useful for teaching new language domains such as house (ÁLEṈ) and things around the home. With so much creativity that goes into one’s world on Minecraft, you could work with and create countless language domains.
I very much enjoyed watching the documentary “Most likely to succeed” where it allows the freedom to truly create/adjust the curriculum that can best suit each individual. Rather than having a plan set out and benchmarks to reach with no regard to whether each individual understands or can even keep up, each student was given the opportunity to grow and develop within their comfort zone. Allowing that safe space to have the freedom of what they want to learn, you can tell that it keeps them continuously involved in their own learning. Also, taking away the stress of the need to know key formulas or facts for a test can take a lot of weight off one’s shoulders. I would love to see this kind of approach to teaching, I don’t really have any negative comments about this method as it relates to how I would want my teaching style to be.
FUNpod Cast – ft. LIȻILIYE & Jojo
Teaching with stories has been a part of our ways since time immemorial and to bring this back to the classroom is FUNdamental. Telling a story engages students. They listen, they can imagine and then they can retell what they have heard. This is all a great practice for the students to remember such information and within a story lies many meanings, many teachings and you can use a story in more ways than one for a lesson.
H5P interactivity would be a great tool to use for language learning. We are constantly creating resources for language learning, and to create one with an interactive component on it would be great! I think H5P would be very useful for elementary grades and/or beginner language learners who are beginning to read in the language.
