{"id":7491,"date":"2021-03-30T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2021-04-01T05:06:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:06:37","slug":"a-culture-of-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/2021\/03\/a-culture-of-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Culture of Curiosity and Creative Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s something quite wonderful about April. You know Spring (March 20th to be precise) has sprung bringing with it warmer, sunnier days.
\nApril is National Poetry Month. With that in mind, there are many ways to approach this. Here is an opportunity to consider ‘spoken word poetry’ or ‘poetry slams’. This is a combination of story-telling and performance. It usually involves collaboration and experimentation with both words and other forms of media such as music, theatre, audio\/video. What’s great about this? It does not have to rhyme! Here are some examples: If You Give a Child a Word<\/a>,\u00a0 Lemons to Lemonade<\/a>, My Honest Poem.<\/a>\u00a0 This type of poetry requires immediate feedback – enter Voice Record Pro<\/a>. This professional grade app (apple or android) offers visual feedback (volume unit meter) of your voice in real time. The recording can be replayed to self reflect based on personal criteria.<\/p>\n

Sometimes in writing you may need a jumpstart. I love using Story Cubes<\/a> as a tangible way to engage in creativity and out of the box thinking. While this may be fine for in-class, it might not be the best in terms of online or learning “anytime, anywhere” options. This is when I go to my “go to”: Story Dice<\/a> (by Dave Birss). Add the link to your Microsoft Team<\/strong> or class blog<\/strong> for students. I like the 9 dice version as it allows for choice (eg. choose any 5? of what is thrown). Once the decision has been made,\"\"<\/a> screen capture the image and add it to an O365<\/strong> Word document or PowerPoint and away you go. You can take advantage of the “dictate<\/em>” option as well as “immersive reader<\/em>” and dictionary<\/em> – inclusion and equity.<\/p>\n

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