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Reflections on Teaching from Home
Reflections on Teaching from Home
Since 2013 I have tried to open my classroom more. I have applied different methods of teaching to engage my students and hopefully let them build skills which will be needed in the future. When our schools in Norway closed because of the Covid-19 virus the 12th of March, the digital classroom was front and center like never before.
First, we are very lucky to live in Norway! OurâŚ
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Demokratiet som styreform i dag
Demokratiet som styreform i dag. Etter den kalde krigen var det i følge NUPI artikkelen âDemokrati under pressâ 29 helt frie demokratier. I dag er tallet 19. Norge er blant et synkende antall fullverdige demokratier. Hvorfor har demokratiet gĂĽtt tilbake i verden siden 1991?
Kilde: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Economist_Intelligence_Unit_Democracy_index.svg Demokrati indeks. EUI. 8-10 = Fullverdig demokrati. 0-3,9 = AutoritÌre regimer.
Demokratiet som styreform i stater virker ĂĽ vĂŚre under press i verden i vĂĽre dager. Demokrati er en styreform som kjennetegnes av frie valg, ytringsfrihet og maktfordeling mellom parlament, regjering og domstoler. Etter den kaldeâŚ
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From the 5-7th of October 2018 eTwinning ambassadors from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Ă land and Iceland were gathered at Romskog Resort in County Romskog in the South East of Norway. On our agenda was sharing ideas and learning new skills to bring back to our schools and future projects.
 This time the skills involved CRAFT â Creating Really Advanced Future Thinkers. The Council of Nordic Ministers has stated that they want to encourage teachers in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland to run eTwinning projects using the CRAFT methodology in their schools. Island, Ă land, The Faroe Islands and Greenland are observers at this point. The Council of Nordic Ministers develop policies and make declarations related to common Nordic solutions. They believe mobility and digital competencies are really important for both students and teachers.
 The CRAFT methodology is an open and flexible concept advocating a practice-oriented approach to learning. They view children as resourceful persons. A class usually works with a real-world problem up to a week. More time is great, but not necessary. The students brainstorm ideas, research and reflect, talk with stakeholders and design an innovative prototype as their solution to the real world problem. The prototype is pitched to the stakeholders. CRAFT started out in Denmark where many counties have a local competition using this methodology. The local winners participate in the national fair called âLĂŚringsfestivalenâ near Copenhagen in March each year where a national winner is chosen in 4 categories. In Norway this methodology is well known through the work of an organization called âUngt Entreprenørskapâ (Young Entrepreneurs).
 Country coordinators for using CRAFT in eTwinning projects are being put in place, and one of the goals is to organize a Hackathon with students from Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark in November/December to generate interesting solutions which can be presented at the Nordic@BETT conference in London. A few classes in each country will have the opportunity to participate in the Hackathon.
 eTwinning is a great match with CRAFT because it is project-orientated and practice-based. eTwinning is the community for schools in Europe. Teachers, librarians and school leaders can connect with peers in other European countries and participate in projects or learning activities for a longer or shorter time period. There are also national websites available, like eTwinning.no.
 If you are a teacher in Norway, Denmark, Sweden or Finland and want to participate in the Hackathon in November/December 2018, please register in eTwinning and contact your National Coordinator. You can find their contact information in the eTwinning Portal. We hope to hear from you!Â
 Nordic Cooperation Using CRAFT Methodology in eTwinning Projects From the 5-7th of October 2018 eTwinning ambassadors from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Ă land and Iceland were gathered atâŚ
Lessons from the Danish Education Fair
Lessons from the Danish Education Fair
This week I went to the Danish Education Fair in Copenhagen to participate in a program focusing on integrating eTwinning and 21st Century Skills in projects with students. I saw great stands focusing on student projects, literacy, coding and games, among many others! There was also a program of great lectures, some of which were open to all teachers! From all these impressions there are twoâŚ
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Ideas to vote for
Voting for ideas
Our program after voting
Today I participated in my first edcamp. A great experience for me! I have been teaching quite a few years, and participated in workshops and conferences before, but this was something else! I participated in edCampAsker which was initiated by Thor Ivar Eriksen, @pute68, and organized with Simen Spurkland @simenspurkland and Ingeborg Gude @GudeIngeborg in Asker Kommune.
First everyone got to brainstorm ideas theyâd like to have as topics in this edcamp. We put our ideas on notes, and next we voted on the topics weâd like to discuss. The organizers then put together the program based on which topics belonged together, and which got the most votes. Everyone could attend any seminar, and walk out too, if it wasnât what you thought it was. A great concept. This is why edcamps are called unconferences, they are free, and based on the ideas of the participants.
The first session I attended was about flipped classroom. Everyone shared experiences, and ideas of how to use this method in our classes. What was very interesting to me, was other teacherâs examples of what had worked for them, and how their pupils and parents have responded. Great examples came from Charlotte Lundell and Marthe Johnsen, both from Larvik kommune.
My next session was about deeper learning and critical thinking. This session resulted in a great discussion with teachers from both primary- and secondary level schools. The most interesting example came from Simen Spurkland. He told us about how he and his colleagues at Vøyenenga skole in BĂŚrum kommune created a cross curricular topic which lasted about two weeks. In this period the students had goals to complete each week, and the end goal was an art exhibition where the students assessed each otherâs end products, the teacher assessed the process, and a report made by each student. A great learning experience, and an inspiration for me regarding developing my own practice as a teacher!
The final session I participated in concerned design of digital tasks. Many counties and schools in Norway are going all in with digital devices for all the students in both primary- and secondary schools. My school; Ramstad skole, is a secondary school in BĂŚrum kommune, where all our students got an ipad each this term. This requires that the teachers learn more about how- and when we should use digital devices. The discussion in this session centered around the principle of the SAMR model developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedora. The idea is to use technology not only to substitute tasks done by hand before on apps and devices, but to create new tasks and learning processes altogether. We discussed our experiences, and this is where I shared my experiences with eTwinning. eTwinning is the community of teachers and students in the EU. It promotes project based learning, where teachers can connect their classrooms and create tasks where the students need to communicate with students in other countries, learning more about cooperation, cultures, language and digital skills. The possibility to learn more with other teachers are great, and you can design digital tasks together which reach the highest levels in the SAMR model. I invite everyone to check it out, and see if it is something theyâd like to try!
 http://www.etwinning.net
 I was lucky to connect also with Eva Steffensen @EvaSteffensen from Oslo kommune today. She shared her experiences using Appleâs Garageband app, which allows students to create their own music when they make digital news presentations in a video, or need background sound for their book trailers. A great idea for me to explore with my students!
After this, my first edcamp experience, I have got a lot of new ideas about how I can develop my practice as a teacher! I have made new connections with teachers learnt from and hope to collaborate with in the future, and I definitely want to come back next year! Hopefully you want to come too?
A big shout-out goes to Thor-Ivar Eriksen, Simen Spurkland and Ingeborg Gude, who organized this edcamp, and to Asker Kommune, which lent its facilities to the edcamp and provided lunch for all the participants!
 My first edcamp Today I participated in my first edcamp. A great experience for me! I have been teaching quite a few years, and participated in workshops and conferences before, but this was something else!
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Sjekk tweeten fra @Nexina:
eTwinning is a learning community
âIt was fitting that the annual workshop for eTwinning ambassadors was set in Rhodes, Greece this year. This beautiful island of roses, whose patron saint is the personification of the sun; Helios, has a truly multicultural heritage.
This year 144 enthusiastic ambassadors from 34 European countries came together to learn, share best practises and network. The eTwinning ambassadors main focus isâŚ
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Brønnøya, Asker. September 2016.
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them youâre working. Tell them itâs research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.
Jennifer Weiner (via theperksofbeingabookseller)
eTwinning and 21st Century Skills
eTwinning and 21st Century Skills
This week I went to the conference for Nordic eTwinning ambassadors in Køge, Denmark. We are educators advocating for teachers to join the eTwinning community to connect and collaborate with other teachers and students from 42 countries in Europe to do projects together and enhance 21st century skills in our classes.
When preparing our students for the future; critical thinking, creativeâŚ
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Rupi Kaur: The Poet Every Woman Needs to Read
Rupi Kaurâs book, Milk and Honey is the poetry collection every woman needs on her nightstand or coffee table. Accompanied by her own sketches, the beautifully honest poems read like the everyday, collective experiences of todayâs modern woman. She experiences love, loss, pain and healing in different chapters of her life. Sometimes she feels as though she has shattered in a million pieces but eventually, she finds strength after picking up the pieces and ultimately survives. Reading the book, is like getting the hug you need on a rainy day, the catharsis you crave after a tragedy.
Kaurâs book is divided into four chapters that each address a different kind of struggle, culminate in a different kind of growth. By the final chapter, Kaur becomes the sister you never had. The Huffington Post was fortunate enough to chat with the young writer about what got her to this very new and exciting chapter in her life as a published poetess.
Q. For starters, can you tell me a little about yourself? A. I write verses, prose, and poetry. I grew up reading everything I could get my hands on. I was moved by the ability of books to pull one out of their reality and into someone elseâs. I thought it was the most powerful thing. And I think thatâs why Iâve been driven to write. I have this terrible habit of feeling too much and I want to express these feelings in the written form. I want to put words to feelings we have trouble putting into words. Like the breath before the kiss, I want to make the mundane beautiful.
Q. What would you say you draw inspiration from? A. Moments. Peopleâs stories. Their experiences. And the way those experiences make them feel. The way people hurt. And how badly I want them to heal. I love digging into them and grabbing the root of their emotion. And explaining something so complex in such few simple words.
Q. What is your writing process like? A. I try to write everyday. But with school, travelling, and doing shows itâs become a lot more difficult. So now I usually write when my body tells me I have to. That sounds a little odd, I know, but let me explain: Usually I know when I have to write because I begin to feel this tug in my heart. Itâs almost like an anxiety building up in my stomach. This buildup is basically all the ideas my mind has turned into poetry over the past few days because I get inspiration through my interactions with the world. And so when Iâm out there, going through my day, the poems are generating themselves and if Iâm not writing them out, then theyâre building up inside me. And if I donât get to a laptop, or some pen and paper right away, it almost feels like they might rot inside of me. And so then Iâll go somewhere quiet. With my laptop. And a pair of headphones. The process begins by listening to Qawwalis by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. I give myself time to sink into his voice and his words. and then when Iâm finally ready, when I feel fully in tune with myself and the emotions I will switch to something instrumental. No words. The words get in the way of the writing. I will open up my text edit document. The same one I always use. And I just begin. Freewriting. Rewriting. Entering. Backspacing. Copying. Pasting. Until I stop. Until it feels like Iâve gotten out everything that needed to be written and then I will put it away. And come back to it with fresh eyes some other time.
Q. What prompted you to share your writing? A. Back in November of 2013, what moved me to share was the idea that I was tired of being quiet. I felt like, for the first time ever, what I had to say was so much more powerful than my fear of what people might think. It was almost as though I had no choice. It seemed more important for me to express solidarity with women going through similar struggles than to continue being that âpolite, shy, quiet girlâ.
Q. What was it like to have your poems published? A. To have those poems published was like a dream come true. The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that. But to see the book come to fruition was such a graceful blessing. One thatâs filled me with so much compassion Iâm left softer and kinder for the world. Q. Your illustrations really add to the poems, did you study art at all or is it just something you enjoy doing? A. I havenât had the opportunity to study visual art but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5. We were moving around a lot. Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didnât have the most lavish life growing up. So we couldnât take trips and I didnât have the toys the other kids had, so drawing was my playtime (along with going to the library of course). I created the world I wanted to live in on paper. But once I took up writing in 2013, I stopped drawing all of a sudden. Because I was focusing so much time on improving my writing, I told myself I had no time for art. Eventually, this made me a little upset. The fact that I had left my first love behind cause I had found another passion just didnât seem right to me. So in January 2014, I had an idea. Why not mix the two mediums? And thatâs how the illustrations came about. Iâd explain the style of illustrations I use with my poems as âchildlike, and semi-scribbledâ. They are simple enough that they donât take away from the poetry. I chose this style because it created juxtaposition with the words. Where the poetry was very serious, very mature, and dealt with some hear wrenching topics, the free-handedness of the illustrations expressed this feeling of innocence. To show that the subject of the poem is experiencing and dealing with things you wouldnât wish upon another person. Iâd like to think that when paired together they might almost leave the reader feeling slightly uncomfortable.
Q. Your poems celebrate being a woman despite the fact that there are many challenges to being a woman. Was this positive outlook something that developed over time or something you always had? A. Definitely over time! I wish I always had this outlook. It was weird. Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it. But I realize now that it wasnât being a woman that I hated. It was being treated in a specific manner for being a woman that I disliked. I had very low self-esteem for most of my life. As is the story for a lot of us. I didnât fit in with the popular girls. My parents didnât allow me to do all the things the cool kids could do. I was quiet, reserved, and at some points, taken complete advantage of simply because of my sex and gender. For a while, in high school, I was so deep into self-hate. When Iâd hang out with guy friends, Iâd say things like âI just donât get along with other girls.â Just so they could think I was cooler, you know? Shamelessly trying to level myself up by putting other women down. God itâs so embarrassing to admit, but itâs important cause I want people to know about the growth. That Iâm not perfect. That Iâve done things Iâm not proud of but the point is I have actively worked to grow. And thatâs what matters. Are we fixing our mistakes? Are we on a track of forward progression?
Q. Some of the poems cover tougher issues like violence and abuse. Is it harder to write about these things? Is it cathartic? A. So very cathartic! Itâs not as difficult to write about these topics as it is a relief to be able to express them. Writing about certain struggles and battles, although sometimes can pull you into a dark place, seems for me, to be less difficult. Certain topics though, if I dive into them for really long periods of time, do take me into a bad place. And itâs important at that point to recognize what those dark emotions are doing to you, and give yourself a break from them. You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.
Q. What do you hope readers will get out of your book? A. Comfort and peace. I want it to be something they always refer back to. Something they read when they need a hug or some understanding and no one is around to understand them. Something they can carry around with them. I want the book to be what I needed around me when I was growing up. Q. I love the name of the book. What made you settle on it? A. To be completely honest, there was no settling. There was no debate or second guessing. I always knew itâd be named milk and honey. In 2013, I wrote a spoken word poem about the Sikh genocide that happened in India in 1984. In the poem, I describe widows of the genocide (those that lost their husbands and entire families to the atrocity) as smooth as milk and honey. From that moment, that metaphor stuck with me. I wrote it everywhere. Doodled it into all my journals. When the idea of a creating a collection of poems to publish came to mind it clicked. I instantly knew the collection would be called âmilk and honeyâ.Â
Both milk and honey as edibles are tied in closely with my community. My dad studies and practices homeopathy and Ayurveda medicine. Heâs a strong believer in both honey and milk as forms of healing. Honey is the one food that does not die. It does not expire. Growing up, heâd always be mixing up almonds or turmeric or gram flower with milk to cure a cough or a cold. Or heâd be mixing some other herbs into honey. These are the holistic practices of my people. Of my motherland. And so I wanted to pay homage to the earth where I first laid my feet.
Q.Can readers expect to see more books from you in the future? A. Yes of course, if the universe is willing. I have so many ideas growing inside my head. I think time will tell if they will blossom into books. But I truly hope so!Â
via The Huffington Post
Rupi Kaurâs book, MILK AND HONEY, comes out October 6th, 2015 and we could not be more excited! ALSO, you can meet her in Toronto on October 2nd. Details here.
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Brønnøya, June 2016.
