Task 3

Task 3, the third and final task of semester one asks us to think about both the uses of resources as a teacher and student. Put into small groups we were asked create an authentic learning task which had uses of technology included in the task and post it onto a wiki space so as it was shareable with other teachers. Our authentic task required us to focus on a specific subject and from this subject creatively build a task that would engage our students and be useful to other teachers who may go onto our wiki to view the task.

    My group consists of Myself, Harriet Holton, Brennan Gillam and Grant Flanigan. Together we brainstormed which subjects we most enjoyed and how we would be able to incorporate this into our authentically learning task. We had decided that both cooking and physical education were of interest to us as most young students enjoyed making food as well as out door activity and as we had a physical education student as part of our group(Brennan Gillam) this became very beneficial to us.

After we had chosen our subject we then brainstormed how we would blend the two subjects so as to make them apart of the same task leading us to the title - Super foods for Super Students. Our title suggest the use of healthy foods that stimulate energy and concentration in the class, make them "super students" both in the class room and in physical activity.

By this stage in the task we had reached around the second or third lesson and not yet created our wiki space nor had we looked into how to use a wiki space. Although we had completed a lot of drafting and developed a good understanding for our goals in the task the wiki space needed to be at least created as soon as possible.