MIT - Design Thinking: Evolution Session @ KPMG

Evolution is the gradual development of something, in this case, my Moonshot Proposal.

The goal of which has changed due to the changing environment in which we currently live.

I started with:

I would like to be able to encourage students to write interesting and detailed stories.

Which turned to:

Engaging Y5 boys with descriptive writing.

Now it is:

Engaging students with writing through Distance Learning

There have been many ideas to help inspire children during the lock down period and to help keep them entertained while unable to physically visit places. I suggested to a parent today their child might like to go to 'San Diego' and walk around the zoo. They could start with Google Earth to get a birds-eye view of San Diego and look around the city before zooming into the zoo.

Click on the Map to travel from Auckland to San Diego.

Then view this clip to see what it would be like to be on the tour through the zoo before looking at the live cams to investigate the zoo animals further.

There are 12 different live cams or videos from around the zoo and children could just focus on one or two to create a piece of writing. Then look at the animal's blog (some have videos, others pictures).

Many sites with live cam I noticed needed restrictions to be removed, which would hinder viewing from different places for students.

You could pick an animal from Auckland Zoo and check out the video and the same animal or a similar one at San Diego and compare environments/habitats and types of animals, such as the Burrowing Owl and Morepork, or the Elephants, or the two types of Baboons.

Along with these ideas, I have also been attempting to create my own Screencastify(s) helping students to make their writing more meaningful. But I keep starting over, still working out how I can edit and link different shots. However, here is the slide I intend to use to encourage the use of Onomatopoeia.