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What does your future look like?  Where will you be in 10 years? What will you be doing? How will you get there? What challenges will you face?  What are your hopes and dreams?  What are your fears?

Journeys, everybody goes on them.  Sometimes, they are short and sometimes they take years. Sometimes the journey never ends at all. Sometimes the journey is long, sometimes short.  People even go on journeys into their imagination which means they don't physically move at all. Sometimes people know where they are going and occasionally they don't.  People go on journeys for a million different reasons and sometimes for no reason at all. People have gone on journeys for as long as there have been people.  The technology of journeys has changed, once we walked and swam, now we drive and fly.  In the future, journeys will continue to evolve.  The technology we use and the destinations we aim for will be increasingly incredible but the yearning to travel and the thrill of discovery will be identical to our ancestral explorers.

What matters to you? Your culture?  Your family? A favourite sports team? Surfing on Sunday? A certain song? Your pet dog? Everyone has something that matters to them.  Very often we try and explain why these things are so important to us but it is hard to cover all the reasons.  We could plan and write an explanation text to make sure we get our point across, or we could create a video game and let people learn through play. Learn RPG Playground is a Role-Playing Game(RPG) creator.  It lets you make games like the birds-eye view video games from the 1980s and 1990s like Zelda and Gauntlet. RPG Playground is really easy to learn and you can create a basic working game in minutes.  You will need to create an account first and remember to save your work regularly.  But you can share your work with anybody and they will be free to explore your world, meet the characters you have added and learn from the conversations they have.   Once you are ...

What are you having for lunch today?  It's a simple question but one with a million answers.  And if you really look deeper into the contents of your lunchbox, it opens up a whole lot more questions.  Where did this lunch come from?  What is it made from?  What is the history of the foods?  Why do you like these flavours?  Do we all taste everything the same way?  What makes this a healthy/ unhealthy lunch?  A sandwich is not a simple thing at all! Learn: Thinglink allows you to tag an image with more information.  Hovering a mouse over the grapes above will open up hidden meaning and connect the image to richer content.  Thinglink is a quick and easy tool to use and there are plenty of online tutorials to choose from if you need more help. Connect: Art: Show the significance of your food in art history.  Or paint a still life of your lunchbox! Maths: Find a recipe for something in your lunchbox and...

If you want to bring a story to life.  Why not build a world for that story to exist in.  It's easier than it sounds with  Inkarnate  and  PlanetMaker ! Learn: Watch the video for a quick tutorial on Inkarnate and PlanetMaker Connect: Writing: You can use this map in the planning of a story.  By thinking about the world your story will live in before you start writing, you can think of the challenges your characters will face and the settings where the story takes place.  It's also a great way to help your reader visualise your story. You could write a fictitious recount of a traveler who explores the world.  Or an explanation text to describe the animals on your planet. Art If this is what it looks like from far away, what might it look like closer up?  You can connect to architecture, landscapes or cultural designs. ThingLink: Using the Inkarnate map image, you can tag certain locations so that additional information,...

When it comes to learning about the environment, why not explore it in and old school way!  Forests, castles, and markets are waiting to be discovered as well as mystical and magical characters along the way. Create an adventure where your character meets people and learns about an environmental issue.  It might be something large like global warming or just something small like littering at your school. Try to use interesting language and descriptions to bring your characters to life and make your worlds interesting for others to explore. Learn: RPG Playground is simple to pick up but there are a few basic things you will need to learn.  It is a good idea to watch the tutorial video below... Connect: Reading: Research your environmental issue carefully, try to find things out from more than 1 place.  You can summarise texts and make connections between texts.  For example, a pair of twins in your game may discuss two separate websites that talk...

Most people in the world have a window but the world outside that window varies dramatically from country to country. Even the view from two different windows in the same street can be completely different. Gardens contain different mysteries and treasures. If you live in appartments, your view might stretch for many kilometres or you may have a view of a brick wall and a spiders web. But whatever you can see, explore it in more detail. Really look, listen, feel, analyse and wonder. Then create and share your own particular view! Learn: Use your Senses Where is your window?  What does your world look like when you peer outside your window? How does this place make you feel? What life can you see? What wonderings do you have? Do you have plans for this view? What makes your view special?  How does this view compare to others you have seen? Why is your view the way it is? How did it get this way? What vocabulary/ colours/ digital tools would you need to s...

What matters to you? Your culture?  Your family? A favourite sports team? Surfing on Sunday? A certain song? Your pet dog? Everyone has something that matters to them.  Using Aurasma you can take an image of your significant something and bring it to life with a video or animation. From PokemonGo to Snapchat, Augmented Reality is commonplace for entertainment but it is actually remarkably easy to Augment Reality in the classroom.  There are a few apps you can use to do this but a good one to start off with is Aurasma. Learn: Aurasma is an app that lets you quickly and easily augment images so that they come to life when you hover your phone or tablet over it.  You will need to download the app onto your smartphone or tablet.  This tutorial below will teach you how to create an 'Aura' quickly and easily, just using your mobile device. There is also 'Aurasma Studio' a website that gives you more control over the trigger images and their actions.  I...