How has technology changed the way we learn?

In the olden days children use to sit in rows and look up at the blackboard. They used slates to do their work but when they had finished they would rub it out. Today technology has changed where there are laptops were you can use your google drive to be able to look back at your work.

As technology got better the children started sitting in groups of four. There were listening posts so they could hear stories and tv’s would get wheeled in for the class to watch documentaries on.

Then came out the plasma tv’s, smart phones, smart boards and laptops that became popular. Kids used simple class computers until the chrome books came out and they had different kinds of technology in front of them.

Did you know technology connects us to the world? We are able to create DLOs using google drive and still be able to look back at the work that has been done.

We are also able to look at other people’s blog posts. You can share your work that you have posted on your blog. So then people can comment on your work or do something similar to what you have done.

Collaborative Christmas Challenge

This week LS2 is learning about how to work as a team and how to work collaboratively. We discussed about different countries who celebrate Christmas. We were spilited into groups and had to choose a country that we would like to research about Christmas. We decided to research about Christmas in South Africa. We learnt a lot of new things about how people celebrate Christmas in different ways. We also learnt that Geseende Kersfees means Merry Christmas in South Africa. The thing we found interesting was that people in South Africa eat turkey and duck for Christmas meals. Above shows you our DLO about Christmas in South Africa and we made a screencastify to record our thinking about Christmas in South Africa.

Tech Reflection

term 2 :  3-D graphics 

At the 3D graphics I learned how to make 3D things I started to make a fidget spinner.

The teacher is called Ms Ferguson.

Term 2 to term 3 : Digital Tech

At the Digital Tech I learned how to make a movies using scratch it was about eating healthy .

The teacher is called Ms Anderson.

Term 3 to term 4 : Food Tech
At the Food Tech I learned how to make a food and how to use the Cooking utensils.
The Teacher is Mrs Heka.

 enjoyed going to tech this year It was fun making fidget spinners using scratch and making food.

 I enjoyed going to tech this year It was fun making fidget spinners using scratch and making food. Tamaki college tech

maths strategy-screencastify

Today me San kyaw,affonso are working on maths strategy.we recorded or work off of screencastiy we had to read out our equation and then we worked out the answer and it was fifty. we used our times tables and out pluses. we counted  how many hexagons there is and how many triangles and then we added 44 then we added 6 more then our answer was 50.

Emergancey

For Inquiry we have been learning about the Emergency Services. I have created a DLO to show you what to do in an Emergency and who to call. We have to keep calm and speak clearly. It is  very important to never call the Emergency services for a joke. 

screencatify

On Friday we had Ms Grant teaching LS2 how to use screencastify. We were screencastifying our maths strategies. For this we first had to write our scripts, then we had to click on the Screencastify extension. After that we had to start recording. Setting this up took long, but we did it. It was great learning a new way to learn and share our work.  

The people in our local community

I used Tagul to create this word cloud that shows who the people in our local community. A community is a group of people who live in a common group that helps people when they need help 

kiwi can

Today we had kiwi Can. This week group b did hand soccer. Mr Malu and Miss Latoia gave us an activity. It was like using an object and using it to something else by acting. Rules are you can't do something the same as the other group.

After that we played a game called hand soccer, we had to use our hand instead of using our feet and pass the ball to each other before scoring a goal. This was working together as a team, we had lots of fun.

Tongan language week

This week is Tongan language so week we have created a DLO that shows how to make raw fish. The information is in English and in Tongan. My partner and I had to create the New Zealand translation to Tongan then me and Savelina had to record our self saying the ingredients of the raw fish then we started saying the ingredients in new Zealand and Tongan when we had finished that we said our bits and and then we went and checked our recording and took the mistakes out and went until it was finished      

Kiwi can taking risks

Today for Kiwi Can we played a game called hand soccer.  We had to pass the ball to everybody in the group before we could  try and score a goal. every body neende to contribute and participate. For a warm up we played bip bop bounce, the rules were if you don't say bang quickly you are out. The game goes on until there is one person left standing. Today the winner was Carl.   

tech

           
Today for tech we made milk shakes with oreo me and my partner Jericho.We made more then the other groups because we had got more ice cream then Mrs hecka. told us to make anther one then we drunk them and they were yum the milk shake had wipe cream with sprinkles chocolates topping we had to get all of our ingredients for our milk shake we had to put in 2 table spoons of usurp and 1 cup of ice cream then we had to combine them and put them in the blender then poor them into cups and then we got to dcreat them with oreo chocolate sprinkles and wipe cream

Let me tell you something about lunch times at PBS

Let me tell you something about lunch times at Panmure Bridge School. When the bell rings we all eat quickly to go and play handball. We run as fast as we can down the stairs and go and mark our places on the grid. When we get out we just want to be at the front of the line so we can have more turns, but when we get out we get quite angry. The people that win are happy because they don’t have to go to the back of the line. Everyone gets annoyed if people start to cheat because the line where you wait for a turn gets too big. If that happens I go and play handball somewhere else then. We start to play one V one until the line gets bigger then we start to play four square. We usually play on the court until the bell rings. When that happens we get a drink and walk to get a drink and go back to class and wait for the teachers.

Today we had to practice our  writing for 4 minutes. We had to read it to ourselves then read it to our partner. We had to proofread it by adding in words that we needed and taking out the bits that we didn’t need.

maui and his brothers Slowing down the sun

In first block LS2 were learning about myths and legends we did story board that we had to show them instead of telling them the photo above shows maui and his brothers slowing  down the sun so it doesn't keep racing across the sky so they court the sun and hurt  him to make the days go longer then it was.