DFI Session 6

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

Today we focussed on our Sites...I think this is what alot of us where waiting for! It was lovely to talk more about the visible aspect of these sites and also how the sites can range from person to person.

I enjoyed viewing the different sites from around Nz, and there were a few that caught my eye as a creator that I definitely would like to look more at and even borrow some ideas.

As a team we were able to recognise things that worked and things that didn’t which was awesome as sometimes teaching and learning can actually be lonely if you are working through an Inquiry. I really liked having the feedback from all the DFI team on my own site as we often don’t get feedback from whanau or tamariki. Like I mentioned in my WWW- I had to have a big tantrum and walk away for 24 hours before engaging in my site so I hope now I have the knowledge to improve but also keep my vision

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13maizAHHdtz0p4gBVuMszDNeJn9XJbB5xP_EJgrgZW0/

 

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

Todays tool were very helpful like being able to create little additions to our site that will encourage engagement and ease of use. I just really enjoyed the human voice and perspective from today that has given me encouragement to take a risk...like the roles have been reversed in someways me beign the learner. I have been very blessed in Lockdown to have my own children help me design things on my page so that has worked in well with my adventures online.

It was fun to work together and see the great creations from others and hear their narrative about their journies. 

It is really like we are in the classroom - watching and learning from each other, which is exactly where the tamariki will be when we have all finished this course :-)

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

This one still is hard for me as I am a bit of a over planner! I need more research and time to look at how the links are made between Digi Planning and normal/ old school planning. Especialy in regards to reflections. I think at first i might borrow a template from other Digi person and have a play with that to see what fits and how thie workflow could change to become more online

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life? hahaha what personal life...im a teacher...LOLS! I think the above might help ther inregards to being able to make the slide work as my planning- not doing 2 things. However I have to also remember that at present in class my class dont use the website they are very reliant on me for instruction and learning. It will take time but I am starting my way forward with a clear picture thanks to the team today xxx

DFI Session 5

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

Today was a great hands on session where we spoke about making learning visible

and why. To be Visible the learning I create needs to be accessible  to:

Whanau

Teacher / Colleagues

Learner-(who is at the Centre)

Sometimes within the classroom setting students have no idea where they are going- lost like in a maze. They need ‘bread crumbs’ to help them along their way and this takes shape as Digital Tech. What was relevant to talk about was that , yes our learners do have different experience in homes- (Oral Language is becoming aMASSIVE issue for our children in regards to linking learning!) so how can we encourage success and being able to share safely with a range of people who may or may not be literate in Numeracy and Literacy.

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

SC / WALT- in the teaching learning journey can still be seen in DTech- keep it viable for everyone which I really value to encourage conversations with learners and their families. I don’t believe in deficit thinking at all within the classroom and feel that that is such a shame when people (yes academics) peg hole teachers and student in this model without understanding the DATS around scaffolding and groupings as best to support growth.

3 A’s with Digital technology:

Accessible

Available

Advance

Fits with Blogger- Feedback and feed-forward (haha slowly I am coming around to Blogger!)

Multi modal-Class site with Pedagogial underpinning it. Sphere- web design in terms of navigating. MM has advantages:

engaging

hook

confidence

ownership

DESIGN: Behavioural engaged-Multimodal) activity involved- sustaining self directed (multi textural T-shaped Literacy)

See my shared readers

My exsiting Site Please note I am working on this during Lockdown so one day it might be this then another day that!

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

Ok…big task but I am going to work on my site as when I created it (a year ago) it was for PARENTS as I did not have devices. However I am slowly learning (like the tortoise) that yes the children can be a part of this as well and that they a can teach me and their whanau. Lockdown could be a good test.

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

I think all of the above. Looking at sites allowed some creative juices to flow, and I really liked tapping into the T shaped literacy PLD I did… It is slowly clicking into place.

I do still think thought that being present in front of the class is very important and I don’t ever want to be replaced by a ipad or computer...though my student might think otherwise. I hope that I can start developing things a bit more children friendly that can walk beside us in the class room or be a “ I have learnt this and celebrated with my class that NOW I can post to share not the other way around

Moving forward:

Reflect on Google class on air-Teachers inquire - reflects on COLs goals

Change site to be more kid friendly. Website ‘real estate’ screen (Appeal to children text drop versus  bright/visual/displaying with key buttons)...Class walls analogy

**Video: Boot strapping – T shaped Literacy DOne 25.8.21

** Add to this teachers Book list DONE 25/8/21

Session 4- Dealing with Data

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

I enjoyed this part the most to be fair - the sharing around childrens learning and experiences.

It became apparent that the children involved in blogging and sharing really were very passionate about their mahi. I could see the intrest in and about each others work and how this connect families to the tamariki.

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

Sharing DFI toolkits with syndicate - done! This is very collaborative and I think the others will really enjoy hopping on and finding videos or infomation about their interests or class direction.
Class on Air ... I can only dream! We did talk about this as a Cluster in regards to Reading. It does sounds pretty fantastic but I feel I need to unpack this a bit more and learn more about my Mk journey to see if it was the right pathway for my learning.
I was quite comfortable using Forms but good to go over the secrets. It would be interesting to do this for FB vs Blogger Vs website with whanau....am I over communicating?

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners, how could they use?

Today I also learnt how to insert Smiley faces in forms- have a look at my effort today Form. This is a more junior approach to forms and I look forward to creating a few more survey's that use these. These also have given me  a great idea for children with high learning needs.

Maps- Linking to out Ko wai au unit and other areas of Connected Curriculum (Social studies) How Waitara got is name

Slides- great tools for reporting to Principal and Board My Blog report

I feel that my class has started to give postive feedback to others especailly with Writing. Funnily enough it does follow similar guidelines of the MK Kaupapa as below..but I love the three key ideas...maybe I can start using this visual in the classroom as well

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

Investigate more about the Auidence / vlews on blogger Vs facebook VS HERO (SMS). This is quite a big interst of mine as I am very aware of Teacher workload. We dont get the engagement on HeRO that we would like so I am wondering about using blogger to repeat the learning and seeing what success the class can get on here.

DFI Session 3 Slides- Upgrading and Animation

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

I enjoyed this create session today as it gave me tips and ideas to take back to the classroom. This create session allowed for experimenation and discussion and alot of laughter which is awesome as it replicated what will go on in a classroom. I also liked us breaking of into topic specifc groups or bubbles so that we can choose ideas or themes that suited us more and allowed for agency and autonomy. I also enjoyed reading about the cybersaftey part of MK. This puts my mind at ease and Im sure will also help parents and whanau feel more comfortable with being the learner and their child the teacher!

"Lifelong Kindergarten Group" philosophy interests me and as I read more about this I hope I can share this kaupapa with the Syndicate.

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

Slides is my main form of planning at the moment on my webpage. Working with the three tutors day meant I could practise and problem solve to enhance my abolity to support the children in my class to access and safely use tech .

I feel confident (not to confident) about creating an engaging slide for work flow for the children in my class and then allowing them to take a risk aswell and create a slide animation.

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

As metioned I like the thought of giving purpose to Writing tasks with the animation. At the moment we have be looking at scratch jnr, however for the ease of teaching and sharing Slides could be a great place to start.

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

Utilsing my new knowledge within weekly planning.

Maybe focus on accessing a Slide for one reading group or writing group first and then then slowly become the tuakana for the class

Making sure that we can share these slides! This will be a work on as my time with blogger has been a bit hit and miss this week!

Ka kite whanau

DFI Session Two

 

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

I am not sure if today was useful for my 'teaching' as such. It was interesting to relook at Drive and Meet and to see what the shortcuts/smarter working platforms. These new methods will support as my Digital learning progresses and I can see how that workings on Google could help within the classroom. As well it will make somethings more collborative with the Syndicate. I have enjoyed that we are unpacking new things from Google together as a group as we can problem solve and talk about things that our happening in our classrooms.

• What does the Learn look like at YOUR school? 

Teacher time, student voice, student engagement, Parent voice and conversation, PB4L, Collaborative planning, sharing work celebrations both in class and online, karakia

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

*Keep practising what I have learnt today- fail forward!

*I like the Keep aspect of having minutes or notes being taken duirng learning, meeting and then connecting with things again.

The tabs and group tabs learning was very good and timely as we do have alot of things open during the day (especiallly becasue we are lucky with the tech we have at our school ).

Meet was really fun and nice to not be talking about Covid while on there!

Looking at Calender also was worthwhile- practise practise!

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

Where I am at the moment I am not sure what I will share too much with the students espiecally with learning about the Ipads and hapara. I feel that at the moment this learning is more for myself and my colleagues. It could be that if I was teaching at a different level then there would alot of tips and hints to give out. As my son and daughter are both starting to become more Digitally aware it will be great to have these conversations with them and share my learning (role reversal!)

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

I need to practise more to improve my confidence as because I do not have a digital class these skills might be forgotten by tomorrow. I think it is having time to play within Google is the key during downtime (haha) maybe with gmail, calendar and then with meet. Again I look forward to learning with my family around these areas.