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