Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 9 - External Recognition

 

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 9 - External Recognition

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

This DFI has shifted my thinking on the use of digital technologies by providing me with a cognitive framework within which to place and scaffold it.

More importantly, it has helped me shift the conceptual base of the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy into the concrete, authentic and actual.

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

Through the knowledgeable use of digital technology, the effectiveness and efficiency of classroom programmes can be enhanced.

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

My kete overflows. The real issue is striking while the iron is hot and embedding this new matauranga within my classroom programme. Teachers are always time poor, however, time needs to be factored in by schools to give teachers the capacity to plan implementation.

4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Engaging with digital technologies may appear daunting to some but with a little effort, and myth busting, one can gain great benefits, in both personal and professional life, through their use.

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 8 - Computational Thinking

 

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 8 - Computational Thinking

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

Where the idea of empowered, as another word for agency, lies within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy and that it was derived from the negative associations that whanau had with the notion of agency and agencies, especially among the working poor.

Defining digital fluency helped me understand that our role as educators is to set the foundation for students to navigate a digital environment in a competent way. We also need to ensure that what we are doing in a digital space is having a positive impact on student achievement.

Hopefully our efforts will help them make decisions on what technology to use to solve problems as well as connect to people from throughout the country and the world.

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

Understanding the differences between digital fluency and digital technologies and the role I will play in the implementation of the Digitial Technologies curriculum.

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

How to introduce and work with binaries within the classroom setting in a way and format that is accessible to students. as well as myself.

4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Streamling and enhancing my blogging capability so I can use this communication method in other aspects of my professional life.

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1hsrY7x0KmXQi8iClZOcLMmfBOQnv8fEocsD0i54bIDs/edit?usp=sharing

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 7 - Devices

 

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 7 - Devices

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

That its kaupapa and pedagogy is underpinned by ubiquitous learning that can occur anywhere, anytime, at any pace and for anyone

If you have a device, if you have wifi and internet then anyone can connect and have access to high quality learning at any time.

Because of the above, learning is now no longer constrained by the length of the school day.

Of interest was discussion centring on the summer slide and the need for strategies to combat it. One approach was called the summer learning journey which featured activities over the summer holidays and was shown to help arrest the summer slump. In particular, it was said that just 3 learning experiences over the summer period arrested the summer slide.

Embracing rewindable learning was seen as vital, especially for students who were away or for relief teachers. It was suggested to use the free labour force available to us in classroom i.e. the students, to make rewindable learning by having students to open screencastify and record their own rewindable learning videos.

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

Using the hapara workspace capability will definitely enable me to better monitor and provide feed forward and feed back on student work in a timely and efficient manner in the digital space. I must admit, I did find that prosopect daunting until today when I found out how it could be administered effectively.

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

I will use the Manaiakalani Cybersmart lesson and variations of them with my students along the lines of what some of the other schools have done.

4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Realising that the school day can be redefined, if we want it to be, through the fuller and effective use of the digital capabilities available to us. We can deliver educational content to anyone, at any time, anywhere at any pace provided they are connected.

However, what about those who are not? There will always be a certain percentage who will be in that category, therefore, will teachers run dual systems or will that portion of society become gradually marginalised as concern for their lack of access diminishes over time?

It would probably be prudent to run two systems in the event of am power outage.

The economic viability of "bricks and mortar" schools may also come into question as the financial benefits of such an approach become apparent.

Will we end up with just socialisation hubs connected with digital platforms under AI control?

If the school day can be redefined so can education and teaching.

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 6 - Enabling Access - Sites

 

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 6 - Enabling Access - Sites

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

Acknowledging connectivity is a way of life for our students and removing it is one sure way of them disengaging from their learning. Being connected through your kura and teaching is paramount and can be empowering for both students and teachers alike. This came out of the realisation that despite some schools being very close geographically they were very distant in terms of connectivity. Having a shared language around kaupapa and pedagogy increases the ability for kura to work collaboratively. This visibility can be achieved through the effect use of Google sites.

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

Seeing how easy it was, with planning, to create a classroom website which could be used as a platform for a range of teaching strategies and activities to help students remain connected and engaged.

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

Definitely the development of a classroom web page with its various sub pages dealing with all the aspects of the classroom programme. As such this visible teaching approach will enable both students and whanau to participate in the activities of my room. 

4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Again, doing a deep hands on dive into Google sites has helped me realise that, given the input, I can use this capability to not only streamline my planning and preparation but also assist students to increase their academic learning and engaged time. This could be done through such features as rewindable learning, embedded links to content and interactive documents.

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 5 - Collaborate - Sites.

 

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 5 - Collaborate - Sites

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

To properly enact the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi teaching and learning need to be visible to students and whanau. As teachers, we need to make sure success is equitable and available for everyone. Conversations need to be had on planning, process, outcomes and assessment so the kaupapa of our learning programmes are visible.

A key point is realising that the learn, create, share pedagogy is able to leverage up learning.

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

Definitely the korero on Google sites has certainly provided some food for thought having never worked with it. Our school go to recently, especially during lock down, has been Google Classroom and almost all staff found that a new start. I am looking forward to exploring Sites further.

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

How a Google sites can be developed to provide an interactive platform to provide the hook to leverage up student engagement. I find the notion of creating a multi modal facility very appealing.

4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

I have found that by becoming confident in using and developing Google sites it could provide versatility and redundancy to my classroom programme enabling students to not only easily revisit earlier learning but also access learning in my absence. There are clearly other benefits but these would be the most immediate.

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 4 - Dealing with Data

 

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 4 - Dealing with Data.

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

I learned that in this kaupapa sharing is about making connections and being connected. Humans have a compulsion to share and this has been amplified, enhanced, exploited and exacerbated by the advent of social media. The abilities to create and share can be tremendous hooks for learning, especially when sharing with a purpose that helps students connect with authentic audiences who choose to listen to them.

I have also understood that Learning, Creating and Sharing are both lineal and cyclic processes.

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

Deep diving into Google sheets and then backing that up with a mini intensive has helped solidify my understanding and use of it.

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

Definitely the MyMaps app as we identify, explore and research the histories of the awa in our area. Forms will be useful across the board but especially for gaining student voice of my own teaching practice.

4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

It was great to pick up the extra tips on working with Google sheets and how to present and publish the data in a number of other documents and formats.

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 3 - Media.

 

 Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 3 - Media.

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

That creativity is the "dead centre" of the learning process and digital technologies can be used to enhance and augment this process and its outcomes.

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

Again, an expanding understanding of the capabilities of the various digital tools available to us and how they, in turn, can be applied to the existing educational and personal settings of both myself and my learners.

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

To use all aspects covered today, Youtube for my own organisation and Google Draw/Slides with my students. Of particular interest is the use of Google Slides to make a digital pepeha.

4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

That " techno feckery" is a thing and my capacity and patience to constantly deal with this is increasing.

Techno Feckery - a phenomena that creates annoyance, frustration, impatience or surprise when things of a technological nature, that have absolutely no correlation with your technical abilities, constantly go wrong in the background so that they undermine, distort, and delay task completion.

Today's create task.

Start of slides task.