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All our grade 11 students are being given iPads, and I have just received mine
The theory is that their learning might be ‘enhanced’ by having them use the iPad for school-related work, although there are some who suspect that more time might actually be spent on games, social networking and videos.
Friday January 20th was the date of the annual LISA (London International Schools Association http://www.lisa.org.uk/) Conference. There are currently 15 LISA schools: most are international schools in and around the London area (although the International School of Aberdeen is also a member).
The conference was hosted by the King Fahd Academy with almost 500 participants attending.
I have been interviewing my final year IBDP visual arts students during last week and this week, giving them a chance to rehearse some of the things they might want to say to their examiner when their final exhibitions are up.
They discussed their studio work (option A) and their investigation workbooks (option B), providing background information, explaining how one thing led to another, and generally presenting a much fuller picture than could be gleaned by just looking (for example) at the artworks.
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Artistically it’s quite an interesting question: I expect that I could successfully launch the discussion with both my Theory of Knowledge class and my Visual Arts class – what is the real role of the artist?
Can just having the idea be enough, or should there be a bit of hands-on art-making as well?
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
OK – I started back at school yesterday after a very pleasant two week holiday, and reminded my year 2 IBDP visual arts class that for them (in some ways) the end is nigh. As if to confirm this, a package of the blue Candidate Record Booklets was also waiting for me in my mailtray. If like me you are teaching in a northern hemisphere school then your students will probably have their final examinations in around 2 to 3 months’ time – March or April 2012.
My students have now been registered with IB for the 2012 exams, and, as usual, I have a couple who have decided to go down the option B route.
Globally, option B has never been a particularly popular choice, with a consistently small percentage of candidates choosing it over the years, and by far the majority taking option A.
It is, I admit, a little confusing – the process of assessment is changing in the middle of the course, (insofar as the examiner will stop interviewing and the teacher will take over this role) and the course itself is soon to end before being reborn (phoenix like) in yet another incarnation.
So it’s hardly surprising that the two issues get mixed up in some peoples’ minds.
On the OCC teachers are still asking if the examiner is really not coming to talk to their students in 2013 (“I have not seen any response to our concerns and questions. Is this change indeed happening? If so, should I be telling my current Year Ones that they will not have a VE?”)
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