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.