Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Fantastic Learning Opportunity for your students!

LEARNZ and Learning with Digital Technologies- this is a great free, online resource to engage your learners.
LEARNZ virtual field trips​ are free, supported online experiences that take students and teachers to places throughout New Zealand and beyond, where they link with experts to investigate and explore their world. U​pdated February 2015.)

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Photo:​In a dry bed of a braided river Andrew the LEARNZ Teacher interviews DoC scientist Lorraine Cook, who explains the adaptations of “scab weed” for a video on a LEARNZ W​etland Biodiversity​virtual field trip.

A LEARNZ field trip models a real field trip:

  1. Preparation: web site content and activities for students, support material for teachers such as curriculum integration (from 1 month before), free PLD webinars
  2. Field trip: Usually 3 action-packed days with diaries, podcasts, tweets, plus videos uploaded overnight. Live audio conferences between schools and experts in the field including a backchannel companion using MoE’s Adobe Connect, all managed by the LEARNZ team. Opportunities to engage further using social media like twitter.
  3. Follow up: evaluation, field trip prize and reflection (up to 1 month after).
LEARNZ can help you tick the boxes (scroll down for 2015 field trips)

  • New Zealand content, including custom videos made in the field
  • Inquiry based e-Learning
  • Real experiences and e-Learning in context
  • Supports the Vision, Principles and Key Competencies of the NZ Curriculum
  • Fits neatly onto the e-Learning Planning Framework
  • Fosters teacher professional learning and development - PLD
  • Promotes reflective teaching practice
  • Field trips for specific Learning Areas like Science, Social Sciences, The Arts, PE-Health
  • Multi-level content with field trips for primary, intermediate and secondary audiences
  • Te Reo Māori keywords and narrations
  • Pasifika keywords for specific content on selected field trips
  • Narrations of specific content to support emerging readers and ELL/ESOL learners
  • Mainstream experience with support for Special Needs Education
  • School-home partnership via a separate login, set up by the classroom teacher
  • Motivating and topical, encouraging classes to take action in their local area
  • Real-time opportunities using web conferencing and social media such as twitter
  • Engaging and fun for teachers and students
  • Teacher helpline
  • MoE supported

LEARNZ​is at w​ww.learnz.org.nz​and is part of C​ORE Education​w​ww.core-ed.org

LEARNZ virtual field trips in 2015 - updated January 2015, below:
Teachers, Register now at www.learnz.org.nz. It’s free.
Choose LEARNZ field trips at www.learnz.org.nz/fieldtrips
LEARNZ Group for teachers on the VLN - http://www.vln.school.nz/groups/profile/785745/learnz




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