Digital Reporters at Camp Cardboard

DEFT

• 21st century show and tell
• Creating Digital Paintings using iPads
• Creating Instructional Videos
• Creating and Using OERs to Promote Best Practice
• Digital Reporters at Camp Cardboard
• Digital video in ITE
• Exploring the intersections of digital literacy and creativity
• The use of mobile apps for digital story-telling with nursery pupils
• Using QR Codes to Engage Children with Learning
  

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Children using iPads to blog about cardboard sculptures

Lesson idea. ..... …....... invited artist to teh school …. fold-down day … children using iPads (what application?!?!? where did they blog to? ??? …. follow up activites????

Teaching approach. This activity is a cross curricula^(subject) activity, involving a collaborative^(tool) approach, giving children the opportunity to work together on a blog. Children were encouraged to engage in group talk^(ta) and discussion^(ta) in the classroom to reflect on the activity they were to report on. The activity furthers e-skills^(topic) and e-safety^(topic) through the use of whole class^(ta) participation. The specific art activity provided a great stimulus for the blogging. Equally, however, this approach could be applied to any event in or out of school. The use of blogging and social media gave the opportunity for children to share their ideas with a wider audience, and also gave opportunities for real-time feedback to their work. The use of hand-held technology also enabled active learning^(ta) as the portability of the iPads and iPods allowed them to be used outside the classroom.

Resource details
Title	Digital Reporters at Camp Cardboard
Topic	[[Topics/E-safety|E-safety]],  [[Topics/Blogs|Blogs]],  [[Topics/E-skills|E-skills]]
Teaching approach	[[Teaching Approaches/Group talk|Group talk]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Whole class|Whole class]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Active learning|Active learning]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Discussion|Discussion]]
Subject	[[Resources/Literacy|Literacy]],  [[Resources/Cross curricula|Cross curricula]],  [[Resources/Science|Science]],  [[Resources/ICT|ICT]],  [[Resources/Cross-curricular|Cross-curricular]],  [[Resources/Art|Art]]
Age of students / grade	[[Resources/8-10|8-10]],  [[Resources/Primary|Primary]],  [[Resources/KS2|KS2]]
Additional Resources/material needed	iPad
Files and resources to view and download	This lesson idea comes from the DEFT case study [[]]. The whole case study is available for reading and downloading here: http://www.digitalfutures.org/index.php/case-studies/schools/school-case-study-5/