Integrated Field Studies is a new course in the grade 11 curriculum and in meeting with the teachers they have plenty of god ideas to integrate technology into the course. Since one of the learning goals of the course is to reflect regularly on personal learning, it was thought that a Blog would be a good place for this. The concern was that the students might not be as reflective because of the open nature of a blog. A decision to use the blog on StudyWiz was made as it is a personal blog between student and teacher only. It appears to have all the needs of the teacher for the course.
Secondly was a look at the field book that students will be keeping. It will involve, but not be limited to, field notes, interviews, labs, photographs, charts and graphs and perhaps a movie. In order for all of this to be collated together, Pages was the clear choice. It can be set up to the personal style of the teacher and all of the elements can be a part of this file. The file can be transposed into ePub so that anyone with a tablet or smartphone can use it. If iBooks was used then the only publishing possibility would be and iPad - this is too limiting.
Integrated Field Studies uses a local community here in Beijing to do its study. They look at the changes in certain criteria over time and report his back to the Community Leaders. It is an excellent way for students to be involved in a real part of Beijing, look at a real life situation and be personally involved in their own learning. There are projects associated with this that are determined by the nature of the class and also student interests.
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