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.