Showing posts with label stonefields. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stonefields. Show all posts

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Learning how to learn: The learning experience for students at Stonefields School in New Zealand

An important video for young people to watch:  These kids talk about how they learn.


at Minute 2:23 there is a chart.  Each Learner Quality is connected to sample sentences for the students to memorize.





Here's another video...



3:18
What do you do when you get stuck?
I use my prior knowledge
I use my learner quality of "being determined."







The Pit
We learn by falling into a Pit and then we build a way out of the Pit.




Minute 4:15
What do you do when you get stuck?
"I ask a buddy and I use the secrets that my teacher gave us."


Minute 4:36
Student:  I thought learning was doing what the teacher says.  That's surface learning.

Now I see that there is deeper learning.
Knowing how we learn.
I learn when I use the "learner qualities."


This is the "mission statement" at Stonefields School:
Developing each learner holistically is critical in creating curious individuals who think and relate well to others. There are four overarching vision principles that Stonefields School believes are important for each individual will acquire during their 8 years.
LINK

Monday, March 18, 2013

Worth a click. Stonefield's open learning spaces are discussed in a blog by Chris Bradbeer


that is a fan's post, Sarah Holland

notice the ways to hang books on the wall

Here is the school's official site.  Only one subscriber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMB7b1rmmrM  I'm the second subscriber


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMB7b1rmmrM    stonefields in New Zealand...

"What spins your wheel?" was spoken on this sofa.
I'm the second subscriber on Youtube.   Why not click? ... only 875 clicks... let's give them a boost...


you can also see Chris Bradbeer's  blog   

I'm the second subscriber on Youtube.   Why not click  the future?
look for the Youtube interview ... on visualandactive

Here are some images from a visit to Stonefields plus a look at the Open Learning Spaces blog.
Google Chrome device


this student likes the keyboard


open learning spaces.... visit the blog  http://openlearningspaces.blogspot.co.nz/


active walls that display current drafts of work, not finished products

neighborhoods

notice the large sliding glass wall.  Chris wonders when they'll invent a device to project on glass


http://openlearningspaces.blogspot.co.nz/

notice the bins on the left

the "pit" was described in that glass enclosure.
See the next blog entry