Global connections - why are we here?

Today with James (our cybersmart teacher), we continued our work with google maps.  Below you will see an embedded map that shows where each of the students (and teachers) in our senior syndicate were born.  This was our starting point for some discussion questions and some of the tools in Google Maps.




You will find the discussion questions here on our class cybersmart page.  We then discussed our thoughts and feelings about these on our individual blogs (see the sidebar for more).

Following this James really challenged our thinking with the following video.
The Lie from Untitled Productions on Vimeo.

We watched, we absorbed, then we posted our thoughts about this.  Be sure to check these on our individual blogs.  We would love it if you posted a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment below.  How does this make you feel?  Is your class or workplace similar to our classroom?

Google map - connections

Today James introduced us to Google Maps as part of our cybersmart learning. We collaborated to create a shared doc that showed all the different places that we were born. As a class we are originally from some amazing places and it is pretty special that we have all come together as Room 8. Below you will see the map of the different places we are from. While creating this map it was really important for us to apply our cybersmart learning so that we did not share too much information. Next time we meet we will further explore our connections in cybersmart. We would love it if you could take the time to comment on our learning. You may even have a connection with some of the wonderful learners from Room 8.

Toytastic times at MOTAT!

We have hit Term Four with our feet running!  On Tuesday (only the second day back), we joined the other two classes in our syndicate for a trip to MOTAT.  MOTAT is the museum of transport and technology.  We spent the day immersed in a range of different exhibitions, from the stunning inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci from ages ago, to the awesome 3D printed creations going on in front of our eyes. Above you will see a group of us experiencing school like it used to be!

Our visit was also really relevant to our inquiry into toys this term.  Each group was lucky enough to spend an hour with our special educators Melissa and John who guided us through a range of different toys.  It was hands on and we got to play with a variety of toys from different times.  This creative environment helped us come up with even more ideas for the toys that we will be creating later on.  If you are interested in finding out more from our own personal perspectives be sure to check out our individual blogs.  Soon our personal recounts will be appearing there!

Please feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment and/or question, we love the feedback and we would love to hear if you have had similar MOTAT experiences.