Phase+2

Investigations and research
The Learning manager discusses the importance of gaining multiple perspectives on the student's problem and provides suggestions on how this might be achieved. These suggestions will include students making their own polls/surveys using [|polldaddy] the students can use the polldaddy app on the class set of iPod's to conduct the polls/surveys. Students are able to gather as many responses offline as they like and then sync it back to their polldaddy site when they are back in the classroom. They are able to post their surveys/polls to their class Blog where parents would be able to take part and comment too. Students may also conduct audio/visual interviews with other students and other Learning managers using the cellspin app on the iPod's. This information can also be posted to the class Blog. Another possible way of collecting ideas could be to have a suggestion box in the school office. The Learning manager will facilitate the use of the ICT tools and encourage students to create questions that evoke more than a one word response. Working in groups students will decide on a tool they would like to use in gaining information and the appropriate questions to ask. Students will present an announcement at the school assembly informing the school of what they are doing and ask for cooperation. Working in their groups students will collect information using these tools at lunch times. The students will come together in class and collate their information to find the most popular perspectives. The Learning Manager will scaffold this process by asking questions and providing examples of how this could be done. Students will be able to represent their information in a graph format; this will give a good visual representation of their information. This site is easy to use for children. [|Link]. Example of posting to [|Blog], students are also able to print copies. Students will come together and present their group findings to the class. Students will revisit the P.M.I. chart (Frangenheim, 2010) adding their own personal responses to any new ICT tools they have used as well as adding to their existing ideas. Example.

Learning manager will provide websites for students to explore; these websites have information regarding different playground equipment and designs, photo galleries of completed projects, costs of some of the equipment and measurements of the surface area of some of these designs. Using a glogster, students will be able to click on the different sites to explore. The glogster will be provided in their wiki page via a link with some questions to think about as they navigate their way through the pages. The glogster will also be embedded into the class [|Blog] for parents to look through with their children at home. Students will write thoughts and ideas into reflective journal page.