Time To Wonder - Lisa Highfill

Time To Wonder - A look at learning

"There are no new ideas" - Be an idea collector (Create a spreadsheet for ideas/wonders - organise wonders.

How do you create an environment for good ideas to grow?
- Inspire curiosity (I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious).
- What do children notice? think? wonder?
- Multimedia text sets - Game boards instead of task boards? What is a refugee - Give them a question or a wondering and give them multiple ways of understanding on their game board. What is the challenge they need to overcome to move on to the next part of the game.
- Motivating by showing a picture or video and ask what do they think?
- Use padlet, ask the question and find the answer. Ask open ended questions rather than closed questions (Oral L) - What questions can you answer using google? What questions can you not answer using google - This can be your research/inquiry question.
- Play/Explore/Create
- Create wide enough walls (not high enough ceilings) to support multiple pathways.
- Write down the quotes that mean somthing to them.
- Book bentos (Find a book and create book bentos based around the book using natural resources, art, equipment etc).