The Bloggers 2.8

Collaboration with St Nicholas Primary School I have recently been involved in a volunteering project working with year 5 and 6 pupils from St Nicholas Primary School, Cardiff. The main aim of the project was to introduce digital technology to the students with the use of GarageBand and Green screen. These pictures below demonstrate collaborative learning as we are working together in order to create a video for the green screen. Furthermore, I believe that this collaborative project really helped the students interact with each other which meant that their learning experience was enhanced. This could potentially link in with Piagets theory where he promotes social interaction within the classroom, this also showed me that collaborative learning really can encourage students to interact with others which leads to increase engagement. This project has really helped me to see a real life experience of collaborative ...

How could cross-curricular leaning potentially impact on primary education? Throughout this post, I am going to express how cross curricular learning has an impact within the primary classroom. Cross curricular learning can be defined as “involving curricula in more than one educational subject.” (English Oxford Dictionary, 2017) This suggests that subjects can collaborate with each other in order to provide a more fulfilling education system for numerous reasons which will be explored throughout this post. In addition, Savage states that “a cross curricular approach to teaching is characterised by sensitivity towards a synthesis of, knowledge, skills and understandings from various subject areas. These inform an enriched pedagogy that promotes an approach to learning which embraces and explores this wider sensitivity through various methods.” (Savage, 2010) Both of these definitions are similar, however Savage expresses that cross curricular learning explores more than just teachin...

How could creativity potentially impact on primary education? Throughout this blog post I am going to explore how creativity can potentially impact on primary education, I will be looking at the positive and negative aspects within creativity and discussing what creativity is within the primary classroom. To begin, creativity can be defined as “the ability to make connections between previously unconnected ideas.” (Koestler, 1964, p.95) This could suggest that creativity links in with new ideas and information we may already previously have and linking them together, furthermore this has the idea of creativity being original and imaginative. Furthermore, The Oxford Dictionary suggests that creativity is “the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.” (The Oxford Dictionary, 2017) This particular point has similar ideologies as Koestler’s in the fact that they both believe creativity is the process of imagination and originality. The history of cr...