DFI Media Week 6

Week 6 Media:  Cohort 1,  2019
Presenters: Mark, Dorothy (hangout)
DFI Reflection 4 June 2019 
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?  Reminded me of the importance of including te Reo as a natural process of my teaching, including te Reo where it fits in naturally and planning the "how" to include it because of my own personal ability. Add a learn, create and share around Maori culture and language.
Digital Pepeha Planning
te Reo Basic sounds

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? I explored other sites to help me with my te reo and found the reomotion hereoora Reomation which are really user-friendly and can be implemented into my programme and I can learn with the students and through the students. The steps are there to get me started so this reduces my workload and boosts my confidence. hereoora Unit-plans Unit1
What did I learn that could be used with my learners? The importance of the children having a digital mihi that can grow with them as their knowledge and life grows.  slide mihi for beginners  I also learnt how google draw is a great way for children to brainstorm, plan, draw and create presentations on. I am going to start next year with their "All About Me" on google draw as this gives children a greater of variety of ways to present their information. Will introduce Google Draw to Reading group as a way to record their visualising as they read their story (creating an image in mind onto digital image).
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Connecting with other teachers and sharing ideas initially is creating more work but I can see how in the long term there will be greater links between staff in Rawhiti studios, across the DFI group and across cluster. Already my planning is becoming more effective and informative for students and myself.

REFLECTION  of 5th Week 
1) What has worked for me since the last time we met?  I have been working on my site. I’m trialling it out on my maths group and one reading group next week.
2) What hasn’t worked (or made sense)? Want to give permission to planning part of timetable but not reflections and group assessment. Need time to explore.
3) What do you need help with? Making site kid friendly and not too many layers. More of this.

DFI 8 Devices: June 18th 2019

Week 8 Devices: Christchurch Cohort 1, June 18th 2019

Presenters: Mark, Dorithy and Gerrard (Pt England School)

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

1)     Positive, thoughtful, helpful – use in class not just blogging. When sharing with each other in the studio respond with positive, thoughtful, helpful.

2)    CYBER SMART  - it is important to integrate the Cybersmart curriculum into the studio.

3)  being cybersmart empowers learners to connect when their learning is visible & ubiquitous

Cybersmart learning is embedded in our Manaiakalani goals

and supports our learn, create, share pedagogy.

·      Empowers confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners. 

·      Ubiquitous when learning is accessible - being cybersmart empowers our learners to harness technology in smart and clever ways. 

·      Connected empower our young people to engage in online behaviour and thinking that... Providing increased opportunities to engage in interactions and decision making with peers, whānau and a wider audience (expanding vocabulary and understandings) e.g. Blogging is integral to cybersmart learning and personifies the pedagogy and goals of our education programme. Opportunities to connect with an authentic audience for their learning outcomes. Means visible whenever and wherever we share online... it's personal Empowesr parents and caregivers by partnering with whānau and aiga to confidently connect with their children’s learning. To understand the purpose of digital technologies to support learning, to know how to connect with their children's learning online set expectations of access and use at home, familiar with the resources and recommendations on their school's website and their own drives and blogs.

4) Cybersmart site information

         Kawa of care - https://vimeo.com/32167145,

         Uru Mana Kawa of Care Whanau  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lvSn-wfWTj-Um1RFsyS5tiigOzPCPGHovzPb8zajVCE/edit#slide=id.g18bbf89006_0_2

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

·      How to implement Hapara Teacher Dashboard more effectively

·      smurf it stop, make a copy, rename, file (make with smurf)

·      highlights, guided browsing (sets what can see), quick share links, or send message

·       shared – quick way to send work to kids specifically

·       Setting Up – any questions Contact Lenva  lenva@hapara.com lenva@manaiakalani.org

·       I have a wider community to support my learning, programmes of work through the Hornby Hub sharing as a whole hub to enable access to their resources https://sites.google.com/a/hornby.school.nz/our-schools/our-schools

   

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

1    To keep revisiting cyber safety regularly with them. The importance of the children having a clear understanding of what is safe to share and publish and what is not.

       Review the comments section of the blogging and read how and what to bog that is supportive, thoughtful and helpful.

Practised using screencastify to share instructions with the students.

  

Practised using screencastify to share instructions with the students.

DF7 Computational Thinking

Computational Thinking: Day 7

Presenters: Mark, Dorothy, 

DFI Reflection 11 June 

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

  It made me think about agency versus empowered for our school. Does agency have a  negative impact on whanau? Do they see agency as somebody of authority that’s not always good? 

  

 It is important to change the thinking "computers are just a tool". Computers  

  transform the way we learn, open doors to new experiences and opportunities.

Emphasis on encouraging students to respond to blogs – it is like not replying to a  

  letter or text or email, phone call. 

Technology in the hands of our students change their lives and their whanaus.

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

 Again more confidence in taking a lead role in scaffolding learning for students in coding and blogging, introduce/use rubric. Blog Rubric

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

 Coding through rewindable learning, e.g. Hour of Code Minecraft  Sea Adventure

Setting up class Scratch site to be able to teach all students by setting up task and children making their own copy to their own. Also allows me to monitor what is happening and to access their passwords (forgot them:>).

Teach algorithms (steps) introducing them across the curriculum e.g., how to make a sandwich. I am a robot I know the words – jam, bread, knife etc. 

      Directions – self driving scooter

·  how can we now change these algorithms into a computer programme, use scratch (blockly)

·  binary (worksheets), up to year 5 teach 8 or 16, cards with dots and cover dot to make the numbers. Try with stage 4 plus kids in class as a rich task.

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

I feel confident now to take the students for coding activities in the studio, answering their questions and exploring with them.


REFLECTION  of 6th Week 
1) What has worked for me since the last time we met? Getting more confident with slides and drawing. Able to contribute to team planning and assistance students more confidently.
2) What hasn’t worked (or made sense)? Google draw with students - first time, questions next week. Children loved it. Linked to reading programme and saw them totally engrossed in visualising pictures in their mind from their story and sharing with their group. Helped teach each other.
3) What do you need help with?  Getting students to access Tawhirimatea kids site easily (talk to Mark). Week 9 Point England teacher there to support and will work with Paula in the holidays to nut out things together - helping her to set up site.

DFI 5 Reflection Enabling Access

Enabling Access: Cohort 1, 2019
Presenters: Mark, Dorothy (hangout) and Danny
DFI Reflection 28 May 2019 
CREATE in the Manaiakalani Programme
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
I realise that I needed to go back and look at how we learning, sharing and creating and just how visible is our goals and outcomes with our students and whanau.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I am contributing more to the slides being used by the team, linking in plans, templates and student tasks.
Going onto our Tawhirmatea site and putting in subpages for my areas to make it easier to access for myself and others.
Goals:
* Start on site for my learners
* Design homepage layout  (put in home button)
* Organise page structure
* Include my planning - taking assessment out

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
I see the importance of the children knowing what we do, why and how. Provide this information for the students in the form of learning outcomes, WALTS in small clear steps. Provide wall charts, doc where the students can access this information as and when they need it.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
A big thank you to Mark, Dorothy and Danny for making it so easy to ask questions and find answers problems. I have enjoyed the learn, create, share model being used with us and can see the value in it for our team and students. Over time I can see how this will influence how we share and making connections with our families I love the learning and feel a lot clearer on where I am going. I am suddenly excited about making my own site to share.
Notes

REFLECTION  of 4th Week 
1) What has worked for me since the last time we met? Started making multi modal page for my reading group. Blogging with my students more and using learn, create and share to explain what we are doing in our programme. Slowly building my children’s learning site.
2) What hasn’t worked (or made sense)? The more we use it the more I see the need for 1 to 1 chromebooks. I have obtained an extra 5 ipads which now gives us 11 so frees up some chromebooks.
3) What do you need help with?  Embedding - need to re go over it I had problems with embedding google slide - went massive, Student and I looked at each other and close the chromebook. Will need to have another go at forcing the person to make a copy.

DFI 4 Collaborate- Sites: Cohort 1, 2019

Collaborate- Sites: Cohort 1, 2019

Presenters: Mark and Dorothy
DFI Reflection 21 May, 2019 
1) What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
     Linked to our reading on accelerated learning. Being specific about the learning and goals, about the create and share (link to come)

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

•  It was a full on busy day learning to create my own site that will appeal to students and add to their learning.
•  Practising to include Create, Learn, Share when planning our days, weeks. 
•  The importance of designing a rich learning experience, engaging multi-modal resources (sample in notes) to stimulate interest in learning, deepen thinking and questions, and promote sharing of learning. 

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

• I have started creating own site for children to link to for their learning. Starting small with reading page and creating our Mihi on a google slide. (link and picture)
•  Discussions on how we could best share our learning goals, what we are going to create and how, what we are going to share where.  Do they want visuale chart on wall, on Learning site. The goals being that everyone knows what's happening, to create independent learners, a rewindable learning environment and students can identify where they need some time with a tuakana or teacher to support their learning.

4) What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
     Initially, it all seemed very daunting but with the sharing time at the end of the session and talking to other colleagues in the group I was able to see that I was trying to go to big to fast too soon. Small steps, clarity of thinking and experiment with the skills I have been learning. It isn't going to go right the first time, second ... but it feels good to create and play. The sharing is still a tough one for me.

Notes

 

Dealing with Data Day 3 DFI Cohort 1

Dealing with Data: Agenda Day 3, 2019 Christchurch DFI Cohort 1

DFI Reflection 30 April

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

It reminded me of the importance of using Learn, Create, Share in my planning and with my students. To have what we are learning, creating and sharing visible (wall, Learning Site) to the students and whanau. To make sure it is a growing, flexible, student/teacher input and revisited. I'm still very excited about developing my site and making it rewindable learning for the student and families. I appreciated the comment for every click into a site you lose a few more students. 

2) What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? Mind awash with so many new things. I need to sit quietly choose 1 thing to build on initially and take small steps to achieve it.

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

For my learners, I am going to be more explicit about what we are going to learn, create and share.
I am going to make sure they know how to use the tools on Google docs and slides and not presume. Clear instructions, orally and visually.

4) What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
I am definitely thinking more about taking smaller steps and being clear about what I can do and what I need help with.
I realise I prefer hard copies of information to refer back to rather than my computer. I would like to contact the tutors that have supplied us with viewing power points/slides and ask for printable copies. I like to write notes on the pages to clarify my thinking and add steps I need. Reinforced their I students like me too. I am making an effort to find which students find hard copies more helpful and which like it on screen.

Notes