Session 9- External Recognition

 To begin with, we started sharing our positives and negatives from the week. 

Manaiakalani Opportunities

Vicky spoke to us about all of the opportunities that are on offer for us to take up if we want.

At 9 30 the google exam began!

Reflection on the exam- 

Overall the exam was not as horrific as expected. I was initially worried and anxious about this and knew I had to work fast to get through all of
the content on time. 

I worked fast to get through the multi-choice questions and got through the exam much faster than expected. I finished with an hour and 20min left to check my work. It was good I had this time as I could go back and fix my errors on creating a calendar and creating events in that calendar etc. 

Here is a picture of me working hard! We find out the results in a couple of weeks, so let's hope there is good news!!!

Overall I have thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the DFI course. I have learnt a wealth of knowledge that will help me with my own teaching, learning and planning. I feel more confident when editing our class site and making sure learning is visible and accessible to all. Lastly, I found it interesting learning about manaiakalani its background and how it came to be. 

I will have to be mindful of making sure my students can effectively use the technology by setting up create tasks that are super easy for them to use! As a junior teacher, it is my job to teach the basics so students feel confident using drive, docs, and slides to head to the senior school with enough knowledge to get them started. 

Session 8- Computational Thinking

 Again we started this session by sharing what went well for us last week. It has been great to hear what others have been up to and how they are using learn, create, share in their classrooms. 

Empowered

Agency or empowered? - Agency a word that we started out using and when we talk to whanau around this they froze as all the agency's they had experiences with were not empowering. Therefore they changed to the word empowered. 

Average students are arriving at school with a mean performance of a 3-year-old. Fewer locomotive skills, they hear fewer words at home. These students also move about schools and around a 1/3 a year of low decile students change schools a year. 

Take the 5 plus a day challenge- are we having conversations with students that have responses and go back and forth? This helps their language development. Are they reading 5 books a day at school? These things can help them make accelerated progress. 

Google exam

- Register 24hours beforehand 

- Three min multi-choice and 10 min for scenarios 

- You can review questions later- only do this if you really don't know

- Youtube can I make a playlist

-Google classroom- how to use this 

- Headphones needed and bring the Ipad 

- Shut down the computer before the test

- Use copy and paste 

-Using incognito window 

- Youtube playlists to revise make sure you create your channel first 

-Groups note you must invite 

OMG tech trust 

Others

• EXPLORING CODING - Intro to Coding resource from Manaiakalani

• Some resources from OMGTech!

• Self-led Intro to Minecraft

• Self-led Intro to Scratch

• Self-Led intro to Scratch Jr (Years 2 - 4)

• Self-led intro to Co-Spaces

• Check out Gamefroot

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New Digitial Technology 

Need to be more than consumers and users our students should be creators as well. 

Websites to get ideas from for coding and unplugged lessons 

Explore: Coding | Tuhi Waehere

To end with we all had a go at coding via the website twine- Link to Twin. 

This was a fun interactive way that we could create a pick a path like literacy story. 

Reflection 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

I learnt a lot about coding today. To be honest all of it felt a bit overwhelming. It was great to learn the basics and know about some sites we can use to create learning experiences around digital science for our students. I will have to look into how to use twinery with my literacy group. 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

I learnt how to teach coding and how to introduce this to juniors. Lastly, I am slightly apprehensive about the google exam next week and need to start to do some of the practice tests online.

  

Session 7- Devices Agenda

 

Again we started the session with our WWW, sharing our positives and negatives during the week. 

Connecting with Manaiakalani - Ubiquitous

Ubiquitous- Any time, any place, at any pace (rewindable learning) from anyone.

Taking away from that traditional 9-3 learning space.

Vicky stated that students start school at 5 years old they have found that students at a decile 1 school come to school with 30, 000, 000 fewer words than a student at a decile 10 school. The ubiquitous learning helps accelerate learning for all as the learning can take part outside of school easier.

Summer learning journey effects 

Students who participated in the summer learning journey have significantly improved their learning as they have stopped the summer drop off effect. Below is a graph to show the effects of this. 

Apps we can use to provide rewindable learning: 

Chromebook apps

https://www.screencastify.com/

https://www.wevideo.com/ Stock Media and templates have been added recently that expand possibilities.

Record function now has 3 choices: 

https://spark.adobe.com/make/video-maker/

Free online video maker with music and pictures

Create compelling video content with ease! Piece together your footage with

photos, music, voiceovers, and beautiful transitions from one scene to the next.

iPad Apps

iMovie - 

Clips - make a movie with Clips

Quicktime - make a movie on Mac

Cybersmart

Empowering our learners as connected and confident decision-makers.

Powerful, positive language - focusing on what we want.

Smart- teaching that is done to support student- top of the iceberg

Secure- Things that are done below the surface to make learning safe for our students- below the iceberg

Be internet awesome- Interland- this is a great site the students can use to learn about internet safety.

Push the positive! This is key! 

Intro to devices

Manaiakalani 1:1 Journey

Participation, protection and partnership- drove their thinking, to begin with.

Participation- everyone can participate, every learner is supported and have their own device.

BYOD- disaster- in 2010 they avoided this to help support students in lower socio-economical areas.

I pads

Today we created with explain everything. Even though we have I pads in our studio I still needed to refresh on how to do most things. One issue we have with our studio is that our year 2s are on I pads and our year 3s are on Chromebooks but all of our learning groups are mixed-age. This then creates a problem as we can not use explain everything on the Chromebook which then means we are not utilising this on the I pads very well. This is something that I will have to discuss with my team around how can we get the most out of the technology with the chromebook/i pad split.

Screencastify

Copy shareable link- must do this before you can download.

Below is a screencastify I created to explain to students how to upload to their blog. I enjoyed using the focus tool to help highlight where the cruiser was. I could also pause halfway through and trim my video at the end.

Conclusion 

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

This week we learnt about the term 'Ubiquitous' and how this means any time, any pace, anywhere. It is important that we
make learning rewindable for all students to access.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

I learnt how to use screencastify. I have heard of this but never had the time to play with it and learn how to use it. I believe this tool will help especially as we can post rewindable videos so students who need to see the instruction or 'how to' again can see this as many times as they need.

Session 6: Enabling Access

 This week we started our session by sharing our positives and wondering from the week before. 

Connecting with Manaiakalani - Connected

Connections only work if the learning is visible. The shared language powers the connection through the shared pedagogy of, "learn, create, share".

Connected Learners Share!

Another way students can share is through Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu- where students can write to other schools across the country.

Leading learning using our google sites:

Samr model - how we enhance a task. Times and places when substitution is effective but we should be trying to create transformational knowledge that the students are trying to engage with.

The purpose of the learning site is to provide a one-stop shop for students. It is visible and offers rewindable learning.

3 clicks and they should be at the relevant learning page.

We looked at each other's sites and gave feedback. I was quite surprised that a lot of others liked our class site, this was encouraging and gives me some good news I can tell the team!

From this feedback we each set goals of what we then needed to work on for our sites.

1.  Add maths independent work online- attached is the slideshow below.

2.  Add in pictures of teachers and students- personalise this. 

3.  Make sure all links work?

4. Add in all students blogs - check that they are all there.

Site buttons

Via google drawing, insert image change shape. Insert shape and write text change font. Control shift - greater than or less than symbol (change size of the font). Colour code. Then download as a png.

Pages can be hidden as they are prepared and navigation added when ready to share.

Hapara

Workspace- use this to upload work for the students to do.

Overall Reflection:

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

• The importance of connection. Connection helps students complete the learn, create, share the process.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

• I learnt about the 'samr' model and how this is important for us to turbocharger our teaching and learning. Instead of just substituting the worksheets to worksheets online we need to be thinking about how can we refine the worksheet so it is accessible and rewindable for our learners.

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

• I learnt that I need to make sure our learning is visible and clear and easy to follow. With our students being so young our site needs to follow the 3 clicks rule.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

• Putting planning straight onto google slides so the learning is transferable to the device and visible to all.

Session 5. Collaborate

 To begin with, again we started off connecting with each other. It was good to touch base with everyone on campus. 

Connecting with Manaiakalani

Visible teaching and learning

- is it visible to the learner, whanau?

Learners who were successful were the ones who knew what the teachers wanted etc- cultural capital.

- Accessible 

- Advance 

Learning site makes teaching visible to the learner, hapara makes the students learning visible for the teacher. 

Multi-Modal 

Goals- 

Engagement- The hook 

How can we make it engaging so it's not just rope learning?

Personalised learning

Universal design for learning- text, visual, audio etc different types of media. 

Accelerated achievement 

T shaped literacy 

Empowerment 

Needs to hit both behavioural and cognitive engagement. 

Introduction to sites

The preview screen is handy to use as you can see how it looks on I pads, Chromebooks and other forms of media. 

Before you give the link to learners you need to publish- check URL so it doesn't have edit on the end!

The link symbol allows you to share the published link. 

Creating our own site 

Below is the site I created this afternoon around the concept of seasons. As a junior team, we discussed what we wanted to focus on, how we were going to hook the learner and what we wanted them to learn. 

The key takeaway I wanted the students to get from my site is that we have northern and southern hemispheres and that we have different seasons for different times of the year, for example, Christmas. 

https://sites.google.com/rawhiti.school.nz/seasons2021/home

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Today I learnt how to use sites! This was exciting as it means I can help out others in the team to make our class site better for students and whanau. This links to the importance that learning should be visual and accessible for all. It is important for us teachers to remember that we may learn through reading and writing but our learners will learn through a variety of methods such as audio, kinesthetic (physically doing) and many more. It is our responsibility to ensure all learners can learn through multimodal tools.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Using google sites more and making all our learning more visible- we do this for reading quite well but need to do the same for other curriculum areas such as maths.