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... :-)