Intro Due to the worry of an increasing number of Covid cases in our community, I discussed the possibility to organize an interactive online MYP Personal Project Exhibition with our secondary school leadership team. The situation was uncertain, and planning for plan A, an in-person exhibition, and plan B, an online exhibition, would have been …
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Introduction Inconsistent remote and in-person instruction combined with increased absenteeism due to Covid or Covid related isolation has created a frustrating learning pattern that’s hard to keep students engaged and caused apathy and low student motivation. When students feel like their hard work is not worthwhile or when they are unable to see how their …
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Cognition and metacognition How do we use graphic organizer as a strategy to promote cognition and metacognition? How does MYP command terms help students develop cognition and metacognition? I am very interested in developing metacognition and self-regulation of students. After re-reading Metacognition and Self-regulated Learning Guidance Report published by EEF (Education, Endowment, Foundation), I decided …
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Concerns about learning loss Unplanned school closure resulting from the Covid-19 has impacted student learning physically, emotionally, socially, and academically. Educators and school administrators express concerns about learning losses and gaps and lack of student engagement, motivation, and approaches to learning skills. The unprecedented sustained school closure periods have brought attention to ‘lost learning’. This …
有沒有更輕鬆的方法可以製作填空題呢？有喔！利用 CLOZEit 這款簡單的外掛，可以馬上幫我們省下不少青春。操作也很簡單。如果老師還在用Word，真心建議可以慢慢熟悉Googles Suite（比如Google doc, slides, spreadsheet, jamboard..等等），利用簡單的外掛，我們經常可以很輕鬆的就完成一件工作。 安裝外掛 首先到Google Workspace Marketplace 安裝CLOZEit應用程式。瀏覽器要用Chrome才能使用。如果老師用的是學校的Gmail帳號，可能先請學校的IT管理員幫你安裝這款外掛。 打開Google doc 打開Google doc，然後貼上文章。在要讓學生填空的地方地下畫線，或者選區文字，按鍵盤快速鍵：command+U（PC可能是ctrl+U)。不用標出特別的顏色，我這裡用藍色只是方便說明，可以清楚看到哪些字是要讓學生填空的。 打開外掛應用程式 如圖所示。中文就只有第一個選項可以用。選擇Underlined（底下畫線的選項），然後開始製作填空題。當然，如果老師教英文的話，可以試試看Highlighted的功能，Highlight會有提示的功能，比如，要填的字是apple，第一個字母A就會保留。這個適合做差異化教學，如果有程度相對較弱的學生就可以用。 填空題輕輕鬆鬆做好，學生可以從詞庫（Word Bank）選擇正確的答案填進空格。 溫馨小提醒 填空練習適合在一個單元開展之前做，課前的測試很快能讓老師和學生知道已掌握和有迷思的學科內容、概念，老師根據學生的測試結果，調整教學安排。另外，經過前測，學生的學習興趣更能被啟發，因為他們會想要知道正確的答案是是什麼，之後學到的概念和學科知識也會存留的更久。在學習的過程中，也很適合形成性評量，但是總結性評量比較不適合，因為學生能夠表現的只是片面的理解，沒有機會融會貫通，展示全面的理解，當學習無法遷移時，學到的知識和概念其實很容易就會忘掉了。