Page 17 - School Leadership Stories EM - 01-10 stories.pmd
P. 17

students on the other side of the world
               are Zoom and hangout. These tools

               support online conferences in real time.

                     He believes that technology has
               changed the role of teacher from teaching
               to mentoring, facilitating, collaborating,

               event organizer, content developer and
               E-moderator. Finally, language learning is
               a process oriented, not product oriented,               Students involved in writing
               learning happens when students are                              film reviews

               engaged in real life situations by creating
               an urge to do something. Collecting
               evidence of learning using technology is a

               key to become a successful teacher in the
               21st century

                Process followed



                     The project was designed for seven
               weeks. The activities included the project
               were introducing each other on online              Student's online interaction with the
               collaborative wall by posting three                students of USA government schools

               sentences, out of those third one is a lie.
               This continued for two weeks and helped               During the last week of the project,
               children to develop analytical skills. When     they focused on how to reduce the weight
               it comes to writing a film review, the          of the backpacks and have come up with

               Indian students and the U.S. students           some solutions that were exchanged on
               discuss on the film reviews written on          the collaborative wall. The information
               latest films released in the respective         required for preparing the content was
               countries. They have written a review           gathered by students alone giving them a

               comprising the details of the cast and crew     wide exposure to the world beyond school
               along with a summary of the movie that is       and got habituated to reading a variety of
               attached with relevant posters of the film      books to unlock the doors of memory and

               and its characters. This initiative not only
               improved English writing skills of the          it's inbuilt registers for  the world of words,
               students but also opened the doors for          knowledge and imagination. While doing
               critical and creative thinking.                 this, "We struggled a lot because


                Transformation of Schools into Vibrant Learning Hubs                                      5
   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22