DFI Session 9

Well, we are all finished !

Today we sat our exam for Level 1. I think it was a perfectly pitched exam that covered a range of topics from the term. At the end I felt really happy that I could quickly articluate my new Google learning, as well as intergrate some of the MK Kaupapa alongside.

Within the feedback section of today I did talk about the range of topics that we have covered and how they were suited to my own place and space in the school setting. I feel that I have defintely gained more useable knowledge around Cybersmart and Intergrating more ICT into the classroom. I did comment about the collegiual aspect of MK and that this, and the passion seen by the Educators, was its stand out feature within the PLD domain.

The thoughts I had about MK for my future understanding and use of Digital tech was being abke to visit other teachers in my position both in class age as well as class needs. This would have been fantastic if we could have ( I understand Covid prevented us) while training. It could be something that may happen in the future with more schools uptaking DFI training. 

I also wondered about having a few more papers, discussions or reflections about students of high needs using tech and the affect on their speech / language and cognitve abilites. In our area we are finding that maybe half a class of students are not ready for formal learning until they are 7...so where would ICT fit in this enviroment. Can we be loading children with Digital procedure and protocol ready for Chromebook usage in Year 3/4 or should it developing the DPA in a balanced Literate and Numerate setting?

Planning has been a huge part of my interst in DFI. Again a topic that will take more time for me to digest and review to eventually see the alignment with Teacher Appraisal and best practice within the school setting. Maybe as the school continues to develop their Annual planning alongside its digital practice we can unpack how planning look as a staff.

Best of luck to all the DFI staff and my face to face then Online learning buddies! Thank you for all your support, guidance and laughter!

DFI Session 8

 

Empowerment...

Kaupapa:

The use of computers and the Internet can aid NZ communities by supporting communication and access to information, building social capital and community capacity. With MK supporting the purchase of computers, using computers within the home  can assist the community planning process , community participation, and information sharing. We discussed today about the mums and Das' using the computer to have some better communication that can build community awareness, encourage local decision making and dialogue between groups, and support disadvantaged communities. 

Change to Empowerment from Agency...Makes sense especically with our Whanau who may have had a bad time or experince with an outside agency. Student voice is still the underpinning idea or concept here - what can happen is that that Student voice lead to Students be given the change to have this voice heard more globally, and can support families speaking up or out! Rangitaitanga! Equity- from a whanau point of view was also unpacked using examples from around Auckland where connection was a big part of MK in schools... having a "buy in" scheme still means parents to be involed and interested.The term Empowerment also can mean that children who are apart of the MK program and are transenent - they still can use a device in a range of settings- hopefully leading to not missing out on too much mahi or a varitey of different styles. 

Within the Empowerment Domain we aslo discuss the aspect of how Oral langauge fits into a Tech classrrom. One Enpowering concept was the 5 plus a day challenge in blogging- with tamariki being supported in making Statement versus conversation.

D.Curriculum

Curriculum:http://technology.tki.org.nz/Technology-in-the-NZC

Digital fluncey Vs Digital Tech- both expected to be deliverd from years 1-10. Where do we start to unpack adn creat this for our own schools was a question on all our minds I think today. We starting with talking about 

Fluencey:

Choosing what to use (G Docs)

Computation:

Then applying that (ie to a meet)

I was interested to look at the start of the DC as from this graph the PO's seem to start in the later half of Level 1...Year 3? Also it dosen't cater for children not working in the NZC.

Alignment to Digital Currc to Cyber smart like the MK project could be a great place to start, as like the Annual planning we saw last week. I fel that having these ideas flaoting around now toward the Term 4 planning mode we could have some solid models or practise to look at.

Rananga Matihiko had some great "childs speak' around technology. I feel that this will be helpful to refer to  as we start looking and planning towards the future.

Coding tools:

https://studio.code.org- this could be a fun project to use with some students. I think its aweome that that they have included some lessons plans and it also looks like that we can go further with these projects. A hour is a very long peroid of time to be working with computers in a junior classroom.. I wonder if it can be stop and started over a few weeks?

Scratch I have got scratch working a bit in my classroom after using mapping and direction unit.  I find it a bit challenging to be fair with the buttons and cues. Need more tutorial time. Adding text aslo - the children have to be able to use a keyboard to type in the words they want to say or have someone type n for them. Again it is a fun activity however needs Tuakana to work properly to get a poilished result. I like the thouigh of children planning it on a monday/ tuesday then creating on Wed /Thursday.

Really enjoyed reserching and diving into the non computional lessons! This is totally in my comfort zone in regards to challenges, wording and delivery. Could fit really well into Discovery time. I can see things like fitting in the NZC and DigitalC annual planning using the Rananga Matihiko matrix.

https://www.helloruby.com/meetruby

https://csunplugged.org/en/topics/

Exploring with Coding and games:

https://make.gamefroot.com/

My mihi

DFI Session 7 Devices

 WOW heaps of info today!

I do remember the word Ubiquitous  from a few meetings ago! It was really cool to talk about students taking learning into thier own hands with Rewindable learning. I also liked gaining family voice and engagement. I though the SLJ was super and really hope it will happen this year for my own two children as well as those at school.

https://summerlearningjourney.blogspot.com/

Had a lovely visit from Fiona... I love the Annual pathway that she shared:

Cybersmart Curriculum Empowering our learners as connected and confident decision makers.

Wonders:

Slide 10....Thinking of planning does it reflct this?

Slide 11..shared language that EMPOWERS

Thinking about Absentism- I wonder if children who are absent alot may engage while being at home?

Digital Dig Chromebook:

Screen castify- spotligh/fireworks. Like that it is intuitive and saves to Drive. Clicking copy shareable link means you can adapt the sharing settings. 

https://sites.google.com/manaiakalani.org/dfi/connecting-with-digital-technology/devices#h.n0d6fizf1gti

Digital Dig Ipads:

https://ipads.manaiakalani.org/

https://explaineverything.com/  pricing

Wonders:

Set up the same:

Layout

Sign in to thier accounts and stayed logged in .

Labelled

Stylus pen

KAWA: Have seen this in my sons school. great idea as long as the family home support this. I wonder what happend if things arent followed? Do students get discontunued?

My learning using an Ipad:

Great to have these exlained to us as well as tips that could work in a classroom. My situation is not 1-1 it is shared so I am thinking of how this could look.

EE was a great little extra...I think it would take some time for me to understand it, the children would  probally cotton on quickly as they do. I am not sure about it with student of high learning needs as there are a lot of buttons to use. It would be cool if there was a simple simple version that could be created. In my recording i stated aout using it on an active board/ big TV to share with the children first.

The sharing/ upload took quite a while and I foudn that a bit much but probally becasue I was signed into 2 devices. This wa my creation under Free account.  I spend half the time working out the buttons ..LOLS..but then got the hang of it.

 I couldn't open the teachers file from Point Chev, however what Vicki did show us was pretty cute. It hink it could work in a small group situation instead of whiteboards/exercise books..cost savings!. I think having a database with these activites in your school could be benefical...I am thinking of time managment. 

Challenge

My next activity was to  use either EE or screen castify to unpack a lesson plan that would recommend to others. Just with needing more time on EE I decided to look at how I can use screen Castify (instead of my son recording on my phone and shaking)

My SC Challenge

• What are the key messages / learning intentions in this lesson?

Be Internet Awesome Unit 4 Lesson 1:1 Its cool to be kind

1. Understand - what empathy is

2. Practise - empathising with people depicted in media

• How have/could you personalise this lesson for your learners? And what would it look like on your learning site?

I think some of the older studnets could record there voices or we could insert the child in there not have a cartoon.

In the website It would come under my Cybersmart heading as a slide. It could also be adapted into Hapara as a nice homelearning activity.

• Are there opportunities within one of your current lessons to integrate these cybersmart concepts?

Yes. It could be in regards to heading back to school after Lockdown, but it might be better fitted at the start of a term. I ofetn start teh year with KOS so that could link nicley. These types of lesson also fit withi our PB4L values. I just need the time to review things and match them up.

Reflecting on the Kaupapa of the Manaiakalani Programme

in light of COVID 19 , whether you did Lockdown: Season 1 or Seasons 2/3/4, and YOUR readiness for ubiquitous learning...

• What are you proud of?

I think I was proud that I hit the round running and I was straight up with whanau about what was on offer. I know all of them have internet and laptops/ tablets at home so to not join in is totally their desicion not for the lack of trying on my part.

I think I took risks with my ideas and loading my planning and work onto hapara.

I am just really proud of my own children and that they supported each other and me in their tasks.

• What do you regret?

Probally sending too much time with my class and not with my own kiddies- however ( this links to the proud moment) I am very proud of my children of how they managed ther lockdown and using their devices at home.

• What have you taken forward into the ‘new’ era of schooling?

Although I am learning lots I still have questions...hahah lifelong learner maybe or old fuddy? I can see some excitng and clever SPARK moments and could totally understand the high engagment.I, however, don't think I am ready to leave behind some of the old era either as I just see alot of benefit on social and emotional activities that promote learning (LTP, Discovery time) as well as new PLD such as BSL and T shaped Literacy as well as just plain old simple sharing circle and big ook time. Also, to answer How are you using rewindable learning to support 1. Young people with learning needs? 2. Diversity, groups, wide range of abilities? .... we have such low oral language and basic skills coming in with our children. Many arent ready to even learn until they are 7...I am thinking where would didgital take a place here as surely they need to be literate and numerate before they can drive their on learning.

I also have thoughts about Hugh needs students or children with disability..where do they fit ?

I think for me I would love to actually visit classes within the lower age bracket and high needs children look at good practise before i can jump on the new era bandwangon.

How did you support your learners for these days when you knew you were going to be absent (ie at DFI)?

I have an amazing CRT teacher who follows our class programme so no random work. I can se they helpfulness of her able able to follow directly from the site, as well as the low disruption to the children (agency)

What COULD you have done from the beginning if you knew what you know now?

I am not sure I could change much do to what I said before about having such low oral langauge, developmental delays. I think the website etc are cool for the middle and higher end of the class room however your targets studetns and those who can not access Level 1 of the curriuuum need as much human contact as possible.

What digital tools could you make more use of?

I like Screen castify and that could fit well with the lesson planning

Slides

EE needs more learning about

What work flows could you be adding? ie systems or processes

I think just small steps here. I can't change how I have planned for years...it's to just to hard to do during the school year- my brain will fry. I think though moving foward that as a synidcate we could totally plan digital teaching around our MANA values and create some more reuseable plans that all could access (multimodals etc, slides etc)

Are you empowering your young people to create these rewindable learning objects?

Not yet...I think I need to get more comfortable in this first... :-)