Myst
Does Myst impact on pupil behaviour?
The motivational factor of Myst not only seems to switch the children on to writing but it also appears to have had a positive affect on behaviour in the class. The engaging nature of the environment and the interest it engenders with the children seems to have kept them on task and to have kept inappropriate behaviour to a minimum.
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Using technology to share children’s work
The rich nature of this writing task was further enhanced by the class teacher’s use of a blog to publish the children’s Myst-inspired writing. This allowed the children the opportunity to know that they were writing for an audience and for them to get formative feedback from their parents.
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Formative assessment within Myst
A major aspect of the work that Tim Rylands did when he visited Aberdeenshire to help deliver the Myst CPD event was to emphasise the importance of and ways in which formative assessment could be built into the children’s experience when writing with Myst. Here the class teacher talks about some of the strategies that he used to help facilitate this.
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Modifying methodology to suit the digitally literate pupil
One of the main tenets of Marc Prensky’s Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants thesis is that schools need to take into account the impact of technology in children’s lives outside school and how this should impact on and inform the methodologies and experiences that the children are presented with in school. The class teacher displays an awareness of this and explains why the Myst experience is important in this regard.
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Why does Myst work in the class?
This clip shows the class teacher describing exactly what he believes makes Myst a quality resource to help enhance children’s attitudes to and performance in writing.