Day 2 and 3

Day 2 started by a interesting Keynote about the new technology available. There will be great innovations combining pad and laptop with Windows 8.

The rest of the day we spent together with our coaching group leaded by Mr. Chris Gerry. Our school got wonderful partners from three Danish Schools. Mr Kalle Komulainen and Mrs. Marianne Kron are our mentors.

Day 3 started with the keynote lecture by Professor Kirsti Lonka from Helsinki University. She is trying to help teacher candidates adapt a new way of thinking about learning and learning environments from the first day.

In the afternoon we divided into the groups of interesting topics like game based learning, personalized learning, 1 to 1 computing, virtual learning, project based learning and physical learning environment. We participated in games and personalized learning. Hot topic is soft skills which for example relate to a person's ability to interact effectively with coworkers or costudents. That’s what we have to start thinking about because our strategy lies on co-operative learning.

There are also a lot of projects made by the innovative teachers around the world participating into the competition. Two examples from Pakistan and Ritaharju School Oulu Finland.

  


















p.s Excellent link for everything you like to know about PBL (problem based learning) 
http://dp.hightechhigh.org/~jrobin/

At Global Forum Praque

Day 1: Sightseeing, registration and networking

Our trip to Prague started early in the morning. Fortunately all flights were on time and we arrived to Prague Hilton hotel at noon. At first glance we could see that the sight for this year’s Partners in Learning Global Forum was extraordinary.
 

 Part of Finnish team with Smurf (muffet) hoodies



First day was reserved for exploring the beautiful city of Prague. We walked across the Old Town, saw the beautiful  Staré Mesto square where the famous Astronomical Clock is located. 

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Movember in Patamäki

Lemmy Kilmister, Tom Selleck and Hercule Poirot!

Artist at the school

Mr. Jukka Miettunen
4th grade teacher

Today our 4th graders had a special day. We got visitors from the Artist at the School-project. Four experts from the City of Oulu Youth Department told us secrets about the movement in front of the camera. We learned a lot of how to place the camera while taking video, different angles and directions of moving.




The whole class divided into four groups and every group made a plan of their own ideas. All the creativity was recorded inside and outside the school. Finally editing it together and watching each others productions. And all during a school day!



Here's a video from Onni's group:

Angry Birds for super fathers

Superfathers got Angry Birds for Father’s day

Paula Vorne

1^st grade teacher

This year 1^st grade pupils made Angry Birds key rings for Father’s Day gift. 

Card was inspired by Superman so that every father can make their childhood dream come true and pretend to be Superman for at least one day of their life.

Freaky creatures in Patamäki

On Friday 1.11 we had a Halloween party organized by our student council. The council did a good job by planning and making a ghost corridor in the cellar of our school. All students who dared wandered thru this frightening route towards to goal. It was so fun!

There was also a competition for the best Halloween costume.

The winners

News from the Kodu Club

Programming new Kodu games for learning is fun. Here is some photos what we have done.

At first you have to make some plans.

Mr. Tony Manninen giving some tips for games. He is running a Game company called Ludocraft.

Tony told also about his road to be a gamer. Club members listened carefully and got a lot of good ideas for games and life.

A group photo with Tony.