HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES

 How we express ourselves

Technology is an integral part of our daily lives today. In other words, it answers most of our problems and addresses most of our needs. Across centuries technology has evolved and has been used for various purposes, especially in computers. They are being used literally for everything and by everyone for myriad kinds of things like banking, chatting, social networking, keeping records and what not!

Students of Grade 5 will now try to keep pace with technology through the unit under the Transdisciplinary Theme, How we express ourselves with the

Central Idea: Technology is the contemporary language of human expression.

Key Concepts:

·        Form

·        Connection

·        Perspective

Lines of Inquiry:

·        Forms of technology used for human expression

·        How technology can be used to express ourselves

·        Different points of view on the use of technology

Through this unit, students will inquire into different forms of technology used for human expression and also find out how technology can be used to express ourselves thereby, learning to appreciate the aesthetics in science. They will also get hands on experience of some new software, application and web 2.0 tools which they will use to express themselves. Their knowledge will also be enhanced with a few guest speakers coming in and talking to them about the use of technology for expression.

The students will also get ample opportunities to develop Transdisciplinary Skills and will be encouraged to acquire positive ‘Attitudes’ towards learning. We request you to encourage your child to inquire and research independently and share any action that is displayed by your child as a result of this learning. You will be able to follow the progress of the unit through the class blog, the link of which will be sent to you shortly.

We look forward to your continued support and cooperation on this purposeful journey.

Warm Regards,

Home Room Tutor

The Unit So Far....

In the weeks gone by at school, in our subject UOI ( Unit Of Inquiry ), we saw a movie on different forms of human expressions and wrote the reflection. We first wrote five responses on the movie, then  paired up  with one friend to discuss our responses and come up with a new set of five  responses. We repeated the same process with another group and arrived at another new set of common responses which showed the main idea. We also discussed the different forms of 

Aadi Chaudhary

expressions used by us and our parents/grandparents and made collages on the same. Through an engaging activity, we showed our understanding of our unit which led us to arrive at the the key concepts, lines of inquiry and the central idea.We also were introduced to 'Netiquettes', Cyber Safety and Security through guest lectures by Mr. Gurpreet Singh Monga and Mr. Satish Papnoi. We also had an online guest speaker, Mr. Jason Graham who talked about the use of technology for expression.   

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Aadi Chaudhary

As we move ahead....

          

We had a   guest lecture in UOI. The guest lecture was about Internet Safety  by Mr. Gurpreet Singh Monga who is an internet lawyer.He  told us some important  things that we need to keep in mind while working on internet –

•  Never  write all the words in capital letters because it shows you are shouting on the person you are writing to
• Don’t talk to the people whom you do not know
• Be friends with the people you know
• Never give your personal information to strangers and your friends 
• Don’t try to hack or trace out someone else’s information and if you want to for some reasons you should ask the person
• If someone is blackmailing you do not blackmail him or her again, instead tell it to parents or your guardian
• Use appropriate language while chatting or emailing with your friend or family member

   Never download any video music without paying for it because you are not giving the credit    to the creator

                                                                       

§  We, in pairs, chose a technology which is used for human expression and started our               research on the first line of inquiry. We presented the information by choosing from the    various options given in Think Tac Toe. We also discussed the parameters for assessment of   our presentations.

  

Arya Garg

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      Arya Garg

   

      ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF  KINDLE AND A BOOK            

    Technology has made a lot of changes in our lives from letters to email, printed photos to digital photos and now paper books to E-books. One of the most popular E-book reader is the Kindle. Let’s see how Kindle is different from books.

    Kindle can store up to 3500 E-books and can be carried wherever you go. It supports multiple languages, so by selecting a language you can read in the language of your choice. Kindle also has audio books for people who are differently abled and who cannot read, so that they can listen to the books. However, Kindle is very expensive and may not be affordable for some people

   Books are more visible than Kindle E-books, and can be seen at a lot of places like homes, shops, libraries, schools, etc. Books are easily shared and borrowed with other people. However, books can be easily torn, damaged and get old over time.

Rohan Kapoor

    As far as you are reading, it doesn’t matter whether you         choose Kindle E-books or paper books or a combination of both; you are increasing your knowledge.

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    Rohan Kapoor

                                          Unit of Inquiry Presentations

     Our teacher gave us the choice of choosing software or web 2.0 tool on which we had to create something so as to express ourselves. Today we shared our work by the projector. Lot many students in class made a collage on Photoshop on their vacation. One of the pictures of was with a fake Frankenstein. It was really scary!

     A boy also had edited photos by Photoshop on his vacation. It was magical! A girl showed us a picture of a birthday scene by using Tux Paint. She also put some fancy clothes on some people attending the party. Some made their own e-book using blurb. It was colourful 

Eshan Soni

     and the pictures very good! Sanjana and I made a Blogspot. A group of boys made a puppet show on Puppet pals. All the presentations were so exciting as we got to work on the laptops. I-pads. Simply amazing!! Few students also made a comic strip using Toondoo. It was very spooky! A group of girls created music using Garage band.The highlight of the presentation was a self-composed song by Kelly, “It’s my Life” accompanied by her mother on the guitar using the software, Audacity.

     We enjoyed every bit of it! 

     Eshaan Soni   

HATS FOR THINKING

  On Friday, we the students of Grade 5 did a task on the Thinking Hats. First we watched some few videos about technology and then started with the task.

  We had to reflect on the videos using Edward Do Bono’s The yellow hat means good points, the Green hat means creativity, the blue hat means thinking, the red hat means feelings, the white hat means facts and the black hat means bad points.

  Supriyaa ma'am cut out some papers into hats. Each hat had a question on it.

   The yellow hat's question was "what are the advantages of the use of technology",

  The green hat's question was " Write some ways in which technology can be used in an innovative way", the blue hat's question was "think and list some of the ways in which technology will be used in the future", the red hat's question was "what do you feel about the use of technology in the present time?", the white hat's question was "state the things that you saw in the videos" and the black hat's question was "what are the disadvantages of the use of technology". We had to read the questions carefully and write the responses. In the beginning it seemed very easy but once we started, it became challenging as we really had to think hard. It was also fun to read the responses of others. I really feel that it was good using the hats because it gave direction to our thinking. Our thoughts were not wandering here and there. We had specific answers for specific questions. The class was really noisy while doing this but at the same time fun too!! 

Kelevinhuo Tsurho

   Kelevinhuo Tsurho

This week in the UOI lesson

   We continued to make presentations on the topics of our choice using different forms of technology such as Prezi, PowerPoint,  blog, Zimmer Twins, Windows Movie Maker and then shared the presentations with the class. Later on Shalini ma’am showed us a few videos based on technology and how people use it. After watching about 3 or 4 videos we were given De Bono’s Thinking Hats to help us answer some questions based on the video, for example, yellow was for the positives of the videos, black was for the negatives of the videos, red was about your feelings and so on.

Sneha Kumar

UOI class was very interesting as usual. I hope it will always stay like that.

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    Sneha Kumar