Modern Learning Environments

Class shared reading

Today in class we did a shared reading on Modern Learning Environments. It is a challenging reading so we have been working on it together.
We are also using the 'Reciprocal Reading' method where students take turns leading the reading session. The aim to for students to be move involved in their reading sessions and to learn collaboratively.

Bonnie was the student leading the session. There are 5 parts to reciprocal reading: predicting, reading, clarifying questioning and summarising.

We begin with the leader (Bonnie) reading the first sentence of the paragraph. She then asks students to predict what they paragraph will be about based on the information given.

Today, the topic sentence Bonnie read out was:

Historically, children and young people were seated at desks in rows, all facing the blackboard, using text books, printed hand-outs, and hand- writing notes

1. Prediction – Matina (the learning environments in the past)

                 Georgia (what the classrooms are like now and what they might be like in the future)

                 Noah (what they did in the past)

                Ashton (the past and future of the learning environments)

                Jordan ( future classrooms of 2050)

                 Zoe ( about what the modern learning environments were like)

2. Reading - Brooke and Mr Forman read for us

3. Clarifying-  Georgia - What does 'there's not a great amount of mixing between classes during the day mean?

Students helped with this, saying that it means that we usually stay in our class during the day, not going to other classrooms for learning activities, other than PE, fitness and art etc

New words we didn't know how to pronounce, or know the meaning of:

advanced = moved forward, progressed
evolved =  changed
reality = form real, what you see, what it is like, truth
technology = machinery and equipment
to keep pace with = move or progress at the same speed


Watch a video about modern learning environments
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