eLearning at Hagley College

At Hagley College the Year 9 Connected Class (Project Based Learning across Science, Social Studies and English) have been using Quick Response (QR) codes to enable greater depth of thinking and student agency with their projects. Students used the Liberatory Design thinking process to design and create buildings and facilities on a make believe island. Students were given specific parameters about the types of construction allowed on the island, each building or resource must have at least three sustainability features and use of the building or facility must take in to well-being of the users. Students were tasked with creating three prototypes of their building or resource before their final product was created. Some students choice to prototype online using Minecraft for Education, 3D architecture software or some created physical prototype models. QR codes linked to Sway or YouTube video clips helped students to delve in to more depth and to help explain their models. &q

Students in a Year 9 Maths class at Hagley College are leading their own learning with the support of Microsoft Teams. Students are completing a Statistical Inquiry and are using a Word document Assignment to show their learning. Teams enables each student to edit their own copy of an assignment and the teacher is able to view and edit each assignment at any time too. The Statistical Inquiry assignment contains questions to scaffold student learning and the questions link to an Education Perfect activity or show a page in students Maths textbook. Students are able to lead their own learning by clicking on links or looking up pages of their textbook in their own time to complete their inquiry. Using technology to support self directed inquiry based learning enables the teacher to do less "whole class" teaching and provide more individualised support to students as they need it. The information from Education Perfect also enables the teacher to see individual stu