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We are fortunate enough to work with Jeni Wilson for our inquiry planning and twice a year for fourth hour projects. This term, myself and my 5/6 colleague, Lauren Barge are working with Jeni to develop questioning skills and strategies in our students. We worked on the project over a 4-week period.
First, we had a meeting to discuss our expectations, ideas and make a plan for a team teaching lesson in Lauren's classroom the following week. We covered a lot of ideas.

Digital Learning Stories
This year I have spent many hours engaged in professional conversation and learning with my Principal about the development of Digital Learning Stories as a way of reflecting on learning.
Here is an example of a learning story for the first 3 weeks of my classroom inquiry, term four. {learning journey.isf}
The idea is to reflect on the journey that learning takes and tell the story with work samples, reflections, photos and videos. This concept aligns very well with the inquiry approach to learning. I start the process around week 2-3 of a new inquiry by creating a story map of the tuning in section of the inquiry.
I started modelling learning stories to my students in term three as a part of my action research question; "How do I explicitly teach independence and reflection on learning". I found the learning stories beneficial as a launching pad for digital learning journeys as they focus on the learning, rather than the presentation tool. Students can relate their learning story via a range of digital tools; powerpoint, inspiration, edcube, wikis...the list is limited only by the realms of their imaginations. I have some photos below of our term 4 learning journey.
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The learning journey story mapping idea is a great planning strategy for guiding the kids personal learning stories (digital portfolios). When they do their own they could list the way they can show their learning under each new entry. This could be with reflections, drawings, movies, photos, work samples etc.
out the photosphotograph below and thethis inspiration version below.of our journey so far. {learning+journey.isf}
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We start with a discussion to develop our draft of the journey so far
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The learning journey story mapping idea is a great planning strategy for guiding the kids personal learning stories (digital portfolios). When they do their own they could list the way they can show their learning under each new entry. This could be with reflections, drawings, movies, photos, work samples etc.
To help this process in term four, we created a giant version of our learning journey on the back wall. The kids loved it. Check out the photos and the inspiration version below.
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