Multiliteracy+in+Numeracy

As part of my 4th hour project I have been investigating the use of Multiliteracies in Numeracy. Before I began my 4th hour project I used inspiration to brainstorm a list of softwares that staff could use and make activites up to link to the staff and student intranet. In a PLC I also investigated this with staff and got them to add to the mind map. Here are the two mind maps. As part of my 4th project I have also been investigating how workspaces can be used in the classroom to make sure that there is always someone on the computers in all lessons. This has been a real change of thinking with my practice and a very valuable one. I decided to take some furntiure out of my room and not have enough tables and chairs for all of the students. I got the students to think of their tables and chairs now of work spaces and not their own tables. This took some adjusting time for students to get used to, now it is just a given that there is always going to be students on the computer workspaces. This allows for my thinking to make sure that I am always utilising the computers. I also visitied Footscray Primary School as part of my project and looked at how they have interactive whiteboards set up in each of their classrooms and how these are used in Numeracy lessons. Whilst there I was able to observe how the whiteboards fitted in with the teaching approaches for numeracy. In PLC's we have also been developing a bank of open ended questions that use multiliteracy.