Week 7 term 4

What is learning?
Ten weeks have past since we started talking about what learning is and thinking about what learning is and also reflecting on our learning with Mrs. Mitchell

When I started talking and thinking about my learning this is what I thought learning was:

I think learning is when a person or a group of people work together or alone to work something out or learn eachothers opions.

Solo Taxonomy has been is very useful to us because we would have never been able to improve in our learning if we didn't have some steps to follow and to show us what we needed to do to get better.

I really liked making the rubrics together and using these. In our learning, first we established a rubric. The next step was going and doing the work. Lastly we self assessed our work. We went and discussed our work with Mrs. Mitchell and talked about how to improve our work. We repeated these steps over and over again until we were happy with our level of thinking. Solo Taxonomy helps us to develope skills that will be very useful in all our learning in the future.

I am glad that Mrs. Mitchell has taught us about Solo Taxonomy because

• We now know how to improve our work.
• We know how to self asess our work.
• We know what to do to get to the next level of thinking

I feel like I am thinking and talking more about learning and I have never done this before. I like the symbols because they help me think about the kind of thinking that I am doing. I also now know how to use a rubric to help me plan my learning. I feel great.

Solo Taxonomy in 4M

Using Solo Taxonomy we have been learning about how to develop new skills to get to a level where we can predict and use these new skills in the future to help us with our learning. Solo Taxonomy also shows what level we are on and what to do next with our learning. Solo Taxonomy also helps us to know how to work independently.

I think predicting is trying to figure out what to do next and what's going to happen next and what to do about it. Predicting is useful like when you are a cop you and you are on a speed chase and your trying to figure out where the criminals going to go and how. Predicting is looking into the future and trying to do something about it. You can also predict what your goal is for the future.

We then had to write a report choose a topic and write a question and then had to walk around the class and ask people the question and collect info on it and tally it and put the data in a bar graph.

I predicted that Edward Cullen most going to be the most popular characters.

My predictions were wrong Bella Swan was the most popular not Rob.

Week 4 Tuesday 27th October

This week Mrs.Mitchell asked us about how Solo Taxonomy helps us with our writing and other work. Solo Taxonomy helps me by showing me where to go next and what to do to get to the next stage of thinking or showing what I understand. The rubric also helps me to understand the details that I need to include in the topic I am working on. The parts to Solo Taxonomy are: Preconstructional, Unistructual, Multistructural, Relational, Extended Abstract and each part or level has its own sign or symbol. Rubric tables have all the signs from Solo Taxonomy and have rows where you write the success criteria or what Mrs. M is looking for at each level of thinking or working. When I wrote my Cinquain poem the first time I ended up on a lower level of the rubric that we created and then I used the rubric and wrote how I could fix up my poem and after that I ended up on Extended Abstract the highest level of thinking and working.
Mrs. M calls this WTN and we have to read our writing and decide on our level using the rubric and then we can check with a friend and then we talk to Mrs. M and then together we decide what I have to do to improve my writing. I like this because I feel that I am getting better at writing and I know what to do to get better.

Reflection on what we have learned today in 4m.

Today in class we learnt how to use Image Chef and copy and paste our poems onto our blogs. Image Chef is a web 2.0 tool. I learnt how to find the embed code and copy the
embed code and download it onto my blog. I like using different e-tools to show my work and what I have been doing in class.

Using Image Chef to create my poem

Using Image Chef to create my word

ImageChef.com Flower Text

Using Image Chef to create my poem

ImageChef.com Poetry Blender