Session 9 of DFI - Revision

Wow I've made it through the last 9 weeks of the Digital Fluency Intensive course. It has been a great learning opportunity and my knowledge has really increased. I have learnt many skills, both to use in the classroom and also to make my life easier digitally. My pedagogy of Learn, Create, Share has also grown.

My next learning goal is to revisit all the DFI Sessions and work through some of the links that I have not yet had time to explore thoroughly.  I plan to do this over several months and continue to add to my blog with some of the new skills that I learn. I also plan to share how I've managed to implement some of this new learning into the classroom.

Ubiquitous - is all about the students being able to access their learning, anytime, anywhere and any place.

For different communities there are different reasons why some students are unable to attend school. 

Students are still able to access their learning - anytime, anyplace or any where. 

Shared the graphs showing the impact of Blogging Frequency on Reading and Writing outcomes. Writing had the most noticeable outcome.  Can look at the link to see how Blogging Supports Writing Outcomes and the Impact and Consequences of the Summer Reading Slide - this is mirrored here in our schools.

Remember that everything in the class that we do - ensure we are asking ourselves what difference are we making to their learning through devices?  

Learn, Create and Share Pedagogy

Making learning 'Rewindable' by the teacher and how the students can create their own Rewindable Learning. 

**Make sure to look over the resources for ideas we can use

Class OnAir - for great ideas

Session 8 of DFI - Devices

Being Cybersmart - We want our learners to be empowered to connect, create and share in order to be positive - as a result we are keeping them safe.

Google have a site called 'Be Internet Awesome' which is for helping kids be safe, confident explorers of the online world.

Consistent Message - Cybersmart Learning is a whole school focus.  Cybersmart should be a 'planning in' part of our programme rather than a 'planning on'.

Our learning is visible - whenever we share on line its personal its about you - we want our learners to be empowered - its about you. We need to give our learners opportunities to decide that it is a positive message we want to share. Comments - positive - thoughtful - helpful    - when we talk face to face we want to use these comments too. Use the language when you are talking with your students in conversations so that this language is easily transferable to making quality blog comments

Increased opportunities for learners to engage in Cybersmart Conversations and Decision making with peers, whānau and teachers.

Our young people learn that every time they connect, collaborate and share online - they are building on their digital footprint.

HAPARA

Our deep dive was about Hapara - making the learning visible

Hapara was initially created to help teachers manage the work flow. It's important that learners know what Teacher Dashboard is, thats it's visible and it's there it help them with their learning.

Use a Positive phrase - 'Be on the Right Place at the Right Time'.

Ask - Do you know where your site is?
         Where your learning is?
         Where the doc is?

Visibility allows us all to be partners in the learning process. 

We looked at examples of Workspace being embedded into class sites

Chromebooks - We completed a digital dig using a chromebook. It was really good completing this and seeing what it is like for our learners - many of whom probably have more knowledge than me and are more proficient at using their chromebooks. Because our learners are not using chromebooks but instead iPads - there are a number of skills I would need to revisit.

I explored the use of screencastify with the slides to create some slides with the class on Cybersmart - Kawa of Care. As a class we will look completing this. It will be a great asset to our class learning site with positive messages and will be especially useful to use as rewindable learning for those that need to revisit and for new children coming into our class.

Thanks once again for another great day. I wish I had more time just to learn, create and share - but my knowledge of how and why we do this has greatly increased.  

Session 7 of DFI - Media

Connected

Our hangout today focussed on Connected. Connected is very closely tied with visibility.

The Network of connections have supported our ability to make a connection with others. It has enabled us to come together in a different way without having to be face to face.

Shared Language is very important to enable us to come together. What we have in common is our shared language of Learn, Create, Share (pedagogy) and the Kupapa.

The Outreach programmes are supported by Facilitators. Everyone is following through the same theme and language. Nicola presented the 'Create' at our Staff Meeting last week. I enjoyed creating the flower garden out of biscuits, icing and springs. Yummy!! The slide below shows our pedagogy deliverance for the year.

Within the delivery of the Manaiakalani there is built in, lots of face to face opportunities to connect with others.  We have a cluster website that Madeline has been creating - link to our own cluster website  

• Toki Pounamu Website (also Hokitika)
• Hokitika Schools Website

see the Manaiakalani Cluster - see the tweeter feeds

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu - "Write to me, write to others" 

This is a great platform in which to connect with other classes. We are not currently doing this in Weka but we need to register and do this. It would be very good to connect with other classes and groups of a similar age to share our learning. ***Task for this week.

Toolkits online - allows us to continue the DFI experience. I have really enjoyed these and they work really well and allow for rewindable learning when you need to go back and revisit.

 The Connected - Share need to be tied togetherneed

To be connected you have to have all 4 elements of the Kupapa - jigsaw puzzle

Continue to use the professional blog as a way to share the teaching and reflection - class blog - child. 

Not recommended we used Youtube to share the learning.  We need to share on our blog which makes it a nice safe place in which to share

Chalk and Talk Sections

For Teachers YouTube channels are useful for subscribing to and organising content via a Google Site and playlists - We currently do this at school via Google Slides - this is another possibility - advantages easy to add to and delete.

Playlists - are a collection of videos. Anybody can make playlists and share them.

* recommend we subscribe to this for the Google Certified Educator Preparation for Level 1

this playlist

Google Draw

I learnt some tips when using Google Draw

I learnt about making same size shapes - how to press the shift key so that things didn't move out of shape. Filling colour behind some word art. Lots of great and helpful little tips - thanks Vicki

Animation Slides - Really enjoyed the opportunity to begin creating an animation using slides. Unfortunately didn't have time to complete but certainly was lots of fun.  Thinking of how this sort of idea could be used on 'Explain Everything' on the iPads.

Began to create some slides to use in our class for our Pepeha - will finish these and make an Explain Everything project that goes alongside these for the students to create their own - they can add a drawing and record themselves saying their pepeha.


I am going to start linking some of the learning that I have gained from DFI that we have used in the class onto this Professional Blog along with the link to the class blog.

The hangout with Kent was great. It was certainly very inspiring and gave us food for thought.

Thanks once again for a great day. If only there were more days to just play and experiment.

Session 6 of DFI - Dealing with Data

The Manaiakalani Pedagogy Dorothy shared with us today was the Empowered part. She talked about the Empowering to include teachers and our young people and whanau. Some also use the word 'Agency'. 

Technology is not just a tool it should be empowering our young people.  Dorothy shared some of the disempowerment that happens in the community in which she lives and all the varying ways data is currently being collected e.g. chip in pre-schoolers clothes to collect the amount of oral language that is spoken at home.

I really liked the idea of taking the 5+ a day challenge - the conversation goes back and forth 5 times. This is going to be something that I am going to take back to the classroom and work on. I will become creative with a symbol that I might use to ensure coverage across all students during the day as our class builds up!!  Researchers say that in the digital age, young people who are blogging regularly and receiving feedback with communication (+5) on their blogs are able to accelerate their learning.

If the learning and teaching is not visible we are disempowering our young people.

Empowering comes from visibility and comes from being appropriately connected with other people.  Our digital technology is not just a tool.


In DFI we are being empowered to become fluent in using the technology and confident in using it. We need to capitalise on the opportunities that are available to us. The internet is a wealth of knowledge.       

A very useful slide to remember

We looked at google forms

Google forms connect to spreadsheets.  I will make a google form as part of our sign in, in the classroom in the morning. inserting pictures to assist the students with answering the forms.  We get to forms by searching the omnibox- forms.google.com


We also looked at Google my maps - owning our maps

This could be used in the classroom for our mapping in Enviroschools. It would be great to map the different things we found on our walk around the school and we could also colour some of the pins to show those things that are sustainable.
I can also see how we could show other information from our Mihi.

We analysed some data gained from one of the students blog at school to create a Blog Analysis. This activity showed how easy it actually was!! This could be useful in my Junior Class for displaying the progress the students are making with their word writing - which is our 'Inquiry'. Fantastic and super timing - thanks Dave!!! It will be easy for the students to view as well and can be uploaded straight onto their learning journal.

I really enjoyed today. There was lots of new learning but I can see how it can decrease work load by making somethings really simple especially the recording of the students known sight words, I now don't need to count them instead function key and sum.

Session 5 of DFI - Computational Thinking

Today the Manaiakalani Pedagogy focussed on the Visual Kaupapa

Viisible - literally means that you can see it!

Visibility is the learner at the forefront and then whānau and teachers.

If the default is not visible - Learners have no idea what is coming or why they are doing it .
Success in the past was measured by the ability to read the teacher's mind or the ability of whānau
to read the teacher's mind.

The learning journey is like wandering in a maze for a lot of our young people
- we want our kids to get a drone view so that they are successful.

In Maniakalini we want the learning in the digital age to be visible - lets share the planning, process
outcomes and assessment so that the default is visible.  The data belongs to the child. It's not ours - it's
belongs to them.

Computational Thinking

Session 4 of DFI - Enabling Access- Sites

Today our Connecting with 'The Manaiakalani Pedagogy' focus, was on Share/Tohatoha

• Sharing is nothing new - we've always done it - it's human nature and instinct.
• In sharing we are 'Creating and Sustaining relationships'
• Mode - we all share in different ways but Blogger is the primary online space for our young people to share. 
• Sharing to an authentic audience - if we don’t engage people they will just move on

 

in order to increase student outcomes.

Learn - Create - Share can be linear or cyclical

We got the opportunity to explore some class sites and evaluate these sites through 2 Lenses

• Engagement
• User Experience - Effective sites have both these elements

The checklist will be valuable to revisit when we have finished adapting our own class site.

We looked at how to set up a Class Site and then got to explore each other's 'Class Sites' and were
given some feedback. The feedback was very good 'food for thought' and also allowed our site to be
measured against important components that should be on the site e.g.

We set a goal for ourselves - our site lacked a 'home button'.
Our site has tried to meet 2 goals - 1 user friendly for students and 1 parents can also see what is
expected. Although it is still work in progress we are slowly getting there.
My thoughts: I have found that I am still getting my head around using 'Explain Everything' and this has
been the focus - will work on the Visual Timetable as a way for students to get into the activities.

Session 3 of DFI

Building on the Maniakalani Pedogogy our focus was on 'Create'.  The 'empowering' - how we hook the learner in.

I would like to go back and visit some of the work of 

as I have not heard of him before and his work sounds very inspiring.

Multi Modal 

I really enjoy the opportunity to collaborate with others at a similar level to create and discuss Multi modal sites. I began to create a part of the site which I can complete and adapt to use in 'Weka'.

What lives in the Garden?

I am really excited about creating a site for Writing next term on Tom Thumb to hook and extend all learners in the class.

Session 2 of DFI - Workflow

I learnt so much that what I now need to do is to find the time to practise all the different things we covered today.

I always enjoy increasing my own knowledge on Connecting with Manaiakalani. Today we covered the 'learn' aspect. The 2 most important aspects for me were

I would like to see our school creating our own uniqueness in the middle

 I need to go and revisit Google Keep

Google Keep

An Example of Google Keep

We also covered Google Calendar and G Mail.

 The next thing we looked at was Google Hangouts and we presented where we lived to the others in our Hangout. We Set up a calendar invite to schedule a hangout call with on Nicola on Tuesday evening.

 

Hangout about the Summer Reading Blogs - Our group made a recording of our discussion about the Blog Posts we read.

Thanks for another great session. Will now find the time to revisit, digest and practise all that new learning to improve myself and my students.

The 1st Day of DFI

Wow - when I think about the knowledge and skills I have acquired during my 1st day of the Digital Learning Intensive I get a little excited at how far I know I will have come, by the end of the nine week programme. It's exciting to be getting some Professional Development that helps to improve my own Digital Skills, during school time so thank you and with practise and new knowledge the chance to sit and achieve 'The Google Certified Educator Exam'.

As a teacher at Kaniere School we have been very fortunate to be involved in Manaiakalani over the past three years. We are currently in our 4th year. In the 1st term of last year we were lucky enough to visit Point England and some other schools within the Manaiakalani Cluster. This further increased my ability to create a picture of what this could look like in my classroom. Today it reinforced the evolution, progress, consistent reflection and change as a result of these reflections that Manaiakalani has taken and the inspiring vision the Educators had at its origin!! They knew what needed to be done to improve learning/achievement for our ākonga. Rather than starting with a device, the focus was on the effective pedagogy of Learn, Create, Share. This is something that we need consistently at the forefront of our classroom - the focus is not the device it's the process of Learn, Create, Share. We are skilled in the Learn, Create and Share in the Junior School - using our ipads as a tool allows us to do this in many different ways now.

Some of the tips I've learnt from today is that My Google Profile should have a photo, rather than my thinking of not needing to identify myself. Yipee - success - the photo is there. The remove background is a great tip and something that I will be using regularly.

I will also be create a google group for the coaches and managers of our netball teams.

I have nearly created a google doc for sharing 1 of our School Values and I will be completing this alongside our tamariki and adding it to our class blog. Tidying up my bookmark bar and folders and organising my labelling/tags will certainly help me to find things easier - saving precious time. Thanks for an inspiring day.