Morals through MediaMargo Pickworth

Teacher Librarian

Shore Preparatory School

North Sydney, AUSTRALIA

1. Introduction and Inspiration

2. Mandela’s morals and texts

3. Harvard’s Visible Thinking Routines

4. Use of iPad technology

5. Putting it altogether

Plan

Shore Preparatory School LibraryNorth Sydney, Australia

Inspirational reading

Inspirational staff

Inspirational role of school libraries and the Teacher Librarian

Inspirational students

1. Introduction & Inspiration

Inspirational Reading

Inspirational Staff

Inspirational role of libraries and Teacher Librarians

Inspirational students

See the good in others

Be measured

Find your own garden

Have a core principle

It’s a long game

It’s both

Part 2. Mandela’s Morals

See the good in others

Crusher is Coming – Bob Graham

The Selfish Giant – Oscar Wilde

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wcbIWlo_1l2L0QdwE2e2WDVOadGAA1SwW8MaX4z45Aw/edit?usp=sharing

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

Wolf Brother - Michelle Paver

Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

Be Measured

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18juNs92UxXinrxpaaP18c77Ff-KRSfbyVo3eiZrxhEo/edit

The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan

Animalia App – Graeme Base

The Waterhole App – Graeme Base

Find your own garden

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p7MNPT-g7_ALB0qM3z3FA00njJ0-gBPTOQABSv_iVbc/edit

Parvana – Deborah Ellis

Too Small to Fail – Morris Gleitzman

Have a core principle

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18wbEbsn0vsjiYu7XtbvUaxpXUPkO0I4WSoHhBboKcgk/edit

Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore- William Joyce

Trash – Andy Mulligan

The Boy who Swam with Piranhas – David Almond

The Littlest Refugee – Anh Do

It’s a long game

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LwRY6soIle4XYhsX35KNVKr3yXcBGVaFqiCnmaVCpiw/edit

The Duck in the Gun – Joy Cowley

The Camel Rider – Prue Mason

It’s Both

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qUxotu1iEkuENfhN2uM60lpmgWDFgJmtG5KO5Ew6oTs/edit

Mirror – Jeannie Baker

Evolution of Harvard Thinking Routines

Value of thinking

Value of visible thinking

Part 3. Harvard Thinking Routines

Thinking Routines

Project Zero

Introducing and Exploring: Zoom In

See Think Wonder

Synthesising and Organising: Headlines

Colour Symbol Image

Digging Deeper: Circle of Viewpoints

Tug of war

Harvard Thinking Routines

Texts – both print and electronic including books, newspaper articles, web pages

Song and poetry lyrics

Visual texts – movies, picture books, posters, cartoons, paintings

Multimedia - ebooks, interactive books, apps, interviews, moving images, animated film based on a book

Media

iPad technology – quick, convenient, familiar

Seamless integration and access

Work samples can be stored, without passwords

Enhance thinking skills

Part 4. Selection of technology

Fascination with technology

http://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/zits/s-1647779

Which technology to choose?

http://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/zits/s-1647779

Voice thread

Prezi

Explain Everything

Padlet

Educreations

Popplet

Technology

Part 5. Putting it altogether

Texts

Thinking Routine

Moral Understanding

iPad

Technology

How does it work?

EXAMPLES:

Indigenous Map – Prezi Indigenous map

Selfish Giant – Prezi Selfish Giant

Selfish Giant – MOVIE ZOOM IN_1

Zoom In

How does it work? (Be Measured)

EXAMPLES:

Ziba Voice thread

Colony Voice thread

First Parliament Voice thread

See Think Wonder

Ziba Came on a Boat

http://voicethread.com/share/6792509

The Colony

http://voicethread.com/share/6792492

Opening of Parliament

http://voicethread.com/share/6792508

‘See Think Wonder’using Voicethread

How does it work? (Core Principle)

EXAMPLES: Anzac Spirit Reconciliation Red Riding Hood The Hare and the Tortoise’

Headlines

Using Padlet with Headlines

MOVIE Blake_1

Let’s have a go – Johnny Depp’s dogs

Set up communal Padlet

Using Padlet to create Headlines

http://padlet.com/mpickworth/k4am8s81j6bq

How does it work?

EXAMPLE:

‘The Inch Boy’ using Explain Everything App

MOVIE Angus_1

Colour Symbol Image

How does it work? (Be Measured)

EXAMPLES:

Federal Budget – Winners and Losers

MOVIE CIRCLE OF VIEWPOINTS_1

‘Wonder’ - R. Palacio – Should August go to school?

MOVIE CIRCLE OF VIEWPOINTS_2

Circle of Viewpoints

How does it work? (It’s always both)

EXAMPLE:

‘Ned Kelly’, Hero or villain?

MOVIE John_1

Tug-Of-War

The black rhino should be shotOR

The black rhino should not be shot

EXAMPLE:

‘The Giver’, Ceremony of TwelvesMOVIE TOW_1

Tug of War

Using Popplet with AppleTV

MOVIE Finlay

MOVIE Harry_1

Application across all curriculum areas

Application across all grades

Assessment and Reporting

ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Where to from here?

Bibliography

http://eastech.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/thinking-routines-ipad.html Date Viewed 20/5/15

http://acultureofthinking.weebly.com/listing-of-routines.htmlhttp://www.slideshare.net/klirenman/making-thinking-visible-using-ipad-apps Date Viewed 20/5/15

Stengel, R., 2010, Mandela’s Way, Crown Publishers.

Mandela, N., 1994, A Long Road to Freedom, Abacus Publishers

Ritchart, R, Church, M, Morrison, K., 2011, Making Thinking Visible, Chichester Publishers