DFI Session 9

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and
pedagogy?

How ubiquity A3 sits within the Manaiakalani Kaupapa
Ubiquitous
Rewindable and Ubiquitous

The Summer Learning Journey data suggests significant and positive gains can be made through participation in this initiative. Stef talked about having a group of students taking up the challenge. Something to think about in the next break.
Summer Learning Journey

New learning opportunities.
Technology is not just a tool, but a means to amplify learning across the curriculum.

With rewindable learning, children who are absent do not need to miss out on learning opportunities, and like wise teachers do not have the frustration of having to revisit the learning one on one.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

I have scaffolded some learning tasks in literacy to allow the learning happen:
Anytime, Anywhere, Any pace
Spelling Mahi
Apps to add to chrome books
Apps List

Questions to ponder:
What digital tools could I make better use of?
Eg. To capture learning - Screen castify,
    To increase ubiquity- Class site
That I need to be using the apps in the G Suite, to increase my ability with all the features they can offer in order to amplify learning for children in my care.

Google Educator Level 1 exam- A challenge to be revisited.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Children being given opportunities to learn anywhere, anytime, at any pace.
Once my site is more developed this will become more possible. More devices would also help.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Embedding -is about live content that you might revisit and change [as opposed to adding a link-images, youtube
Perseverance is not just a word!
Support is just a click away.

DFI Session 8

DFI Session 8

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and
pedagogy?

I found this piece of of Dorothy's hangout, thought provoking.

Dorothy talked about how the word 'agency' may be perceived by some, as synonymous with 'agencies' resulting in a feeling of 'disempowerment' rather than the intended outcome of agency in learning. Therefore the word empowered, to send a more positive connection to a greater number of people is used in the Manaiakalani Kaupapa.

You can't be truly empowered with the other parts- Ubiquitous, Visible, Connected

Digital Learning is our challenge-We want it to empower our learners

The use of digital technologies should enhance learning and give our children a different experience.

Alarming Facts

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Learners are entering our schools at a 3 year age level

There is a 1/3 student turnover on school roles nationally.

Children on entering school have 30,000,000 less spoken words.

5+ a Day- I love this idea  🐸

This is a great idea! Rich learning. So empowering. It could contribute hugely to literacy learning improvement.

5 Iterations a day [Table tennis analogy]. 

5 Can you keep a conversation going 5 times back and forth. 

What about: 

5 talk moves in maths

5 Countries of the world

5 Things at school that make you feel good/happy/safe

5 Talk moves in a writing conference with a buddy.Eg a word you like, a phrase or       sentence you like, why you like it, something to revisit, a goal to work on.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

What are the NZ Curriculum top future skills?

How can we get there?

See Digital Curriculum for Progress Outcomes


We can create and share as we are learning Eg. Co Spaces - rather than the more traditional way of learning, then creating then sharing.

Computational thinking for digital technologies

Designing and developing digital outcomes

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?

• See slide 18 in Dorthy Burt's slide presentation Ideas to enhance empowerment in the classroom
• Timetable 5+a day into our learning.
• Thinking about how coding could be adapted into PE. Perhaps working with Innerfit on ideas.
• Writing instructions [Making a Sandwich] as a way to introduce idea of writing code. It needs to be specific.
• Developer, Tester, Robot game- Link to how we write code. Don't make too many parameters at the start. Let the kids come up with own rules and regulations.
• Game to develop coding skills

• Use of Co Spaces to create imaginative contexts for story writing. My class used Co Spaces at Mindlab on their last visit. I found being able to attend Mindlab as a 'student' hugely valuable. It allowed me time to experiment and get my head around it more. I will let the children loose on it as Emily suggested
• Co Spaces - Make a story

Create an environment, choose characters, name them, change how they look.

Add speech, thought bubbles

Contexts: Enviro Focus, Story telling [see The Lion and The Mouse], Report writing-add an animal to an environment, add facts in speech bubbles. 

• Lightbot- ipads app for writing procedures 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Confidence is the big thing.
Managing photos
Use of Calendar- in use all the time for professional and personal events/reminders.

DFI Post 7

Being part of a powerful network can foster strong connectivity among learners. We can keep abreast of so many exciting innovations so readily.
I feel excited Hokitika is in our Manaiakalani network, as my grandchildren will attend school there over the next 2-4 years.
Being connected celebrates commonalities and diversity. [Supports Enviro Schools guiding principle Respect for Diversity of People and Culture]

The Manaiakalani kaupapa is changing how I think and plan learning tasks.
In our school we are all using the language  Learn, Create, Share across the curriculum.
Sharing capability is a big part of this.
In designing purposeful learning activities the The SAMR coffee analogy is useful.

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu- Write to me, Write to others is an area for future discussion in our school.

In my professional capability I will keep working on my learning site giving due consideration to the 'Why?'
Why are my students using the site?
-For visibility, extending learning outside school hours, rewindable learning, higher engagement, collaborative learning opportunities.
-For sharing resources
-To offer multi-modal tasks/activities
-Sharing via blogs- greater networks for children, teachers, parents, extended whanau.

How?
How will my students use the site?
Stef talked about 'back mapping' which made plain sense. as in any other learning. Eg. 'Where do you want this child to be in 10 weeks?' 'What are the steps to get there?'

How do I want my site to look. Draw a plan. It is for the children so needs to be easy to navigate.
Key ideas for me:
Simple layout, [not too many things going on], engaging/eye catching, complementary colours, limited use of different fonts- keep it uniform.


Site development-
BUTTONS
-Use of good visuals for buttons so children are not needing to struggle if reading is a problem
-Page setup -custom-200x200 pixels
-Create button and download as png image

Immediate achievable goals from peer feedback are:
-sort permissions. When sharing tasks remember to tick View Only!
-Embed reading slides via a button on home page
-Convert Antarctic reading tasks to a slideshow as previous tasks [I was practising using a table for layout at the time of task construction:)]

Next step goals:
-Create buttons for Reading, Writing and Maths
-Revise and move timetable to home page
-Try Colour Pick

What did I learn to improve my confidence and capability?
The feedback form gave plain sensible advice to keep you moving forward with site development.