Passions, Talents and Lifelong Learning Skills

This week's @kidsedchatnz topic was about passions, talents and lifelong learning skills. Part of the chat is flipped so we watched the Kid President's YouTube clip on how to be an inventor. 

Here are the questions that we answered during the chat:

1. What are your interests, talents or passions?
2. Do you get to learn about your interests in the classroom? Give us an example.
3. What do you have to do to become really good at something?
4. Do you think it's important for children to have some time each week to learn about something that they're interested in? Why?
5. The top 10 jobs in 2015 didn't exist in 2004. What jobs do you think there will be in 10 years time?
6. What skills do you think we will need for these jobs in the future?
7. The Kid President wanted to invent a Catuum Cleaner. What would you like to invent to make the world more awesome? *Opportunity to share a photo via a tweet here. 
8. Is creativity important? How can we encourage creativity in the classroom?
9. Sometimes we get stuck with our learning and have to problem solve. What does good problem solving look like?

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#KIDspeakNZ

Today we answered some questions on Twitter for #KIDspeakNZ. We really enjoyed it! these are some of the questions that we answered.

‘What would you like your teacher to know about how you like to learn?’

‘Are schools up to date with technology?’

‘If you could change one thing about your school, what would it be?’

‘Everyone's an expert at something, what would you teach your classmates?’

We posted some pictures of us doing the chat….

By Asha & Anna

@kidsedchatnz debate about flags

Today we took part in an education twitter chat. We are learning about debating and how people have different opinions. We also shared some of our own flag designs that we made during the art exhibition. To see the questions that were asked go to the @kidsedchatnz website: 
http://kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nz/2015/07/w3-nz-flag.html

different opinions.
Kidsedchatnz Flags from Matariki on Vimeo.

We shared our flag designs during the chat

We designed flags during the Art Exhibition

Twitter Photo Chat @Kidsedchatnz

Today we were using our school Twitter account (@MatarikiWBS) & we were answering some questions (see below). One of the questions was about a Cow with a suitcase & you had to answer why does the cow have the suitcase & where is it going?

Nicola's base group did this today as part of our rotations in Matariki & Mahutonga! It has been really fun doing this, this afternoon.

• By Gretel & Eloise

Here are the questions copied from 
http://kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nz/:

T3 - W2 Photo Chat

Hey everyone, the first Kidsedchatnz for term 3 will be on at 2pm Wednesday, Week two. 

And what is the topic you ask? Well I'm going to try something a little different for this chat. The topic is a Photo chat! All questions are based on a number of different photos! 

Sounds interesting? Check out the photos and questions below! (All photos come from the fabulous website Lend Me Your Literacy)

QUESTIONS/PHOTOS

Q1. If the doors above were portals into the future and the past, which door would you visit first and why?  

Q2. Do you think people that lived a 100 years ago had better or worse lives than us?

Q3. Why do you think the two sides are so different?

Q4. If you could be more like any animal, what would it be and why?

Q5. How do you think the little boys are feeling? Would you exchange places with them?

Q6. What does a cow pack in a suitcase? Where do you think it is going?

Q7. If you were trapped inside the tree, how would you escape?

Q8. You return to find your home city in ruin, what do you do next?

Q9. If you could have any super power that could help people, what would it be?

Q10. You discover a stone giant at the bottom of the ocean. Do you remove it or leave it where it is?

Newlands Mystery Skype

Some of us Mystery Skyped a class from Newlands Primary School. We recorded our progress on Twitter 
@MatarikiWBS 
#mysteryskype 
It was fun having to research and find places on a map.  We took turns and asked questions to each other to narrow it down until we got the correct school.


Newlands mystery Skype from Matariki on Vimeo.