Collaborate- Sites: Cohort 1, 2019
Presenters: Mark and DorothyDFI 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.
- 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.
