A quick blog post... I try to do just one a week but this was such a great find I wanted to share it! I was down in Gisborne and found the New Entrants using these magnifying glasses...

The magnifying glasses can record student observations and then play them back! The two little silver buttons are the switch to turn on and off the recording or play back and aren't actually a button, just a contact so no working bits to break! That white rectangle bit are little slips of waxed paper you can use a whiteboard felt on! I think these are just fantastic -and I'm not sponsored by the company that sells them at all! I was told they are from Sitech Systems (got the link too: https://www.sitech.co.nz/product_details/c/280/p/840)
We're wanting to know what children are noticing and how they're noticing so would make a great way to hear their thoughts. I don't think you can transfer them off though. If you had a game with children making as many noticings as they could about an object, I guess you could play them all back to see who comes up with the most! You can just see a smaller circle on the lens which magnifies greater. And they seemed very robust!
The other item the kids were using were these clips which were similar too -I could imagine children looking at a photo of an object, etc and recording their noticings and ideas.

I don't know much more about them -I don't think they record multiple voices, just one at a time and I assume they run with a couple of batteries!

Paul