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Learning Circle  Your World Secondary - Rotterdam EYC

News 9: Summary

Week 8-9: Monday April 20th – Sunday May 3rd 2009

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Dear participants,

We hope everyone is well at the start of the second week for the Summary phase.

A lot of answers have been placed in the Wiki the past week, but still many answers are missing, again we ask:

- United Kingdom    Bishop Challoner, London    REYCS1

- Macedonia    SOTU Georgi Naumov, Bitola    REYCS2

- Romania    National College B.P.Hasdeu, Buzau    REYCS3

- Romania    Gr. Sc. Ind. "Grigore C.Moisil",  Buzau    REYCS4

- Romania    Physical Education Highschool "Iolanda Balas Soter",  Buzau    REYCS5

- Slovenia    OŠ Vitanje, Vitanje    REYCS 6

- Slovenia    OS Ivana Cankarja Vrhnika, Ljubljana    REYCS7 

- Netherlands    Toorop mavo, Rotterdam    REYCS10

- Netherlands    Noordrand College, Rotterdam    REYCS11

- Netherlands    Sint Laurens College,  Rotterdam    REYCS12

to place their missing answers as soon as possible in the Wiki!

The following schools have completed placing their answers in the Wiki, WELL DONE!!!

- Slovenia    Antona Ingolica Spodnja Polskava, Spodnja Polskava    REYCS8

- Slovenia    Osnovna šola Naklo, Naklo    REYCS9

- Latvia    Riga Purvciems Secondary School, Riga    REYCS13

The Overview at the bottom of this Newsletter will help you to identify which tasks are done and what still needs to be done.

Please contact Ria if you need any help with the LC work.

Preparing summaries and posting them

This 2-week phase is meant for organizing, summarizing and reflecting on the information received.

The students don't only write a summary but create a publication which is based upon the summary and which shows a higher level of in-depth analysis of the result.

This Publication can be also a digital presentation of their choice (a website, a PowerPoint-presentation, an audio-video-presentation).

Analyzing requested information you and your students will need to develop strategies for recording, examining, and summarizing the information that you requested.

Students can help plan how they will save, store, and compare the messages. Some information may need to be integrated.

If they asked all classes to collect data or respond to a number of questions, it is not always informative to just list all the responses by each class.

Sometimes a narrative summary of the responses is effective. Or students may want to compare the responses from all classes to a single question.

Sometimes listing the schools on a continuum or grouping schools with similar responses will help students understand the relationships.

A general format for reviewing the responses might be to address the following questions:

1. Why did we ask the question?

2. What did we know about the theme when we started?

3. What did we learn in our classroom?

4. What did we expect to learn?

5. What did we learn from the responses of the students?

6. What were the differences in the different countries?

7. Why do we think these differences exist?

8. What are the consequences of the differences for a country?

Pictures

It is best if you can reduce the size of the pictures before you post them in the Wiki.

If your pictures are too large, and you want some help? Ask your students or send them by email to Ria