Create as you go!
Curriculum building with iPads,
Crayons and Explain Everything 🚀
Done right, edtech lets both teachers and students shape learning in real time.
Relevance + relatability = engagement 🎉
Meet Felix – a teacher who believes in storytelling, not textbooks.
Children are inquisitive and adventurous by nature, and forward-thinking teachers like Felix utilize the power of technology to support the development of those traits. By making his students part of the lesson and encouraging them to come to their own conclusions (and then explain how they did!) – he creates exemplary constructivist learning experiences.
Villa Wewersbusch has been an Apple Distinguished School since 2016, but interestingly, the school does not have a technology department. The faculty at this private German school, led by Principal Felix Kolewe, believes in constructivism as much for their own learning as they do for their students. All of the teachers belong to a Facebook group where they share their questions, problems and solutions to solve any tech-related issues they come across while teaching with technology.
As for the students – they get so much more than just iPads and Pencils or Logitech Crayons. Any experienced teacher will tell you that just having good hardware or software is not enough, and that’s why Felix created the school’s mandatory digital literacy course. Every Villa Wewersbusch student is required to take the 2-year course covering everything from basic netiquette to using an iPad, identifying trustworthy information sources, protecting their online privacy, and much more.
It is during this course that students learn to use technology to help them create and share their knowledge, and that’s where Explain Everything Whiteboard comes in. Thanks to his creative combination of Explain Everything’s three main use cases – live presentation, collaborative group work and recording – his lessons are impressively interactive and engaging. ideas down on the canvas, or put up scans of their tests to discuss common mistakes or compliment a job well done. Whatever the lesson topic, his students are constantly engaged in their own learning process – this is constructivist teaching philosophy at work.
The constructivist teacher’s toolkit ⚙️
Engage and empower your students like Felix does thanks to:
