DFI #9

Heck Yes!!

Today is our last session! We finished with a three hour exam..... Happy to announce I passed the Level 1 Google Certification!


Manaiakalani's final words:

Ubiquitous - ubiquitous learning opportunities of being able to learn Anytime, Anywhere, Any pace from Anyone!

DFI #8

Cybersmart not Cybersafety - Empowering our learners as connected and confident decision makers.

Manaiakalani Cybersmart that we teach our pupils is divided into three main sections that follow the Learn, Create, Share model as well. 

Term 1 Smart learners (LEARN) - are our students effective and prepared users of digital technology?

Term 2: Digital footprint (CREATE) - understanding what info we should share and what we should keep to ourselves - making these decisions is important

Term 3 Smart relationships (SHARE) - how we comment effectively on blogs, how can we invite an audience to engage with us - how to we equip our learners to be capable and positive contributors to a global society
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Digital learning, simplified

Hapara helps schools make the shift to digital learning by making it easier to view and manage learner work in the cloud.

Visibility

Easy access and visibility into learner work.

Differentiation

Individualize learning by differentiating assignments.

Safety

View learner browsing activity during class.

Insight

Drive powerful teaching and learning conversations.

Student Agency

Empower students to take control of their digital learning.

Digital Fluency Intensive #7

You can’t be truly empowered without leading a visible, connection and ubiquitous life. 

Manaiakalani aim to provide and transform our young learners lives. It's about giving the pupils agency and rich opportunities. This is achieved when we as the educators can make our teaching visible and rewindable. Handing the power back to our tamariki. We want to empower our whanau with our kaupapa of EMPOWERED.

OMG TECH

TrailBlazers Workshop:

Technology. The ever changing, ever developing world. OMGTech! develops & delivers engaging workshops for both teachers and students on digital technologies and how to explore and invent with them.

  

Trailblazers
Professional Learning & Development

Rangers
STEAM Workshops

Hour of CodeNZ Hour of Code Partner

Mana Tangata

Youth Mentorship

We explored the digital curriculum as a new piece of the existing curriculum document and how we as educators can facilitate pupils learning about digi-tech in engaging, exciting ways. This was done through the likes of:

 Hour of Code - A group of games at varying levels that  allow users to be self-taught in the area of coding.

 Scratch - we also played around with scratch and used the coding tools to create a simple game. 

Technology answers a lot of the demands of today and is a constantly evolving, fast-paced society that provides rapid-fire responses, which means it is constantly evolving as well. It is important to provide our pupils with positive learning experiences while making them aware of it's negatives. As technology becomes a permanent, dependent factor in our lives it will test our moral compass so the more we're able to include the better prepared our tamariki will be in the future.

6. 26 July Enabling Access

Today's session was all about exploring how to maximise our class/subject sites to maximise Visible teaching and learning.

Some key points around maximising our class sites were:

Visual appeal - shop window!

• User experience 

It was important for us all to see multiple sites and then share our sites while giving feedback. After sharing my site and receiving feedback from the cohort I decided on one main goal for my class site today and broke that down into 3 specific things I would like to achieve on my Class Site today. 

My goal: To clean up my site 

Three Specifics: Check layout/theme is consistent throughout

Check there are not double up slides/content in multiple pages

Bring old content/photos etc up to date.

Have a look at my class site here

My next steps in maximising my site will be to add Effective teaching practice eg NZC, learning progressions, NZQA for my students, parents and myself to have easily accessible during specific units.

 

DFI AKL#2 Agenda - Collaboration with Sites

Today our Pedagogy and Kaupapa was about being Visible! Visible to all, staff, pupils, and parents. It is also about making our learning easily accessible to our students and by providing multi-modal experiences for our learners. An inclusive, differentiated approach to teaching in a digital learning environment.

Our focus for the afternoon was about making our site a multi-modal experience for our learners by having a plethora of relevant, yet exciting resources for the pupils to explore before, during and after specific teaching times.

MIne is not quite finished but you can set a whole page up in your site purely for your chosen topic. You can hide this page until you're ready for the pupils to use it to its full potential!

 

DFI #4 - Dealing with Data

DFI #3 Media!

Today we focused on the "Create" part of our "Learn, create, share" pedagogy by using Google Draw

Google Draw can be used for many classroom-based activities such as comic strips, mind maps and flow charts, digital portraits and posters to name a few. I created the outline of a lily using Google Draw. This skill was taught to us by students from Panmure Bridge. Here are their tips and tricks!

DFI Workload

Today's lesson was all about workload. The biggest takeaway for me was the use of Google Keep and how to incorporate it into your work and everyday life. With it being report season it was helpful to remember the easy insert of notes into report writing especially with reoccurring or similar comments.

DFI Week 1 Cohort 2 - Infographics

Infographics is about using Docs as a tool for creating visual media: It is handy when creating newletters, C.V's posters and more.

Digital Fluency Intensive Session 1

My first day at Manaiakalani's Digital Fluency Intensive  was just that. There was and is so much to learn and then take back to class to share with my class. There were many things I did know, however the things I didn't know were really eye opening and useful tools for me to add to my digital kete.

The biggest takeaway I had from this session was using documents like a working text book. This is useful when pupils create a piece of writing. Instead of opening a new doc for every piece of writing the pupil can open up the same folder and document (for example Term 1 Writing) and create a new heading with the days story title and date by using Heading 1. By creating titles, headings and sub-headings this keeps your work organised and can be navigated by the use of a contents page.

A simple but effective tool!