DFI -Day 8 Computational Thinking

DFI       - Day 8

Computational Thinking

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

"Empowered" with Gerard

You can't be empowered without being connected, being visible and ubiquitous. These 4 areas make up the Manaiakalani kaupapa. Computers open up opportunities, opportunities to do things we couldn't do before. This links with the cybersmart information we have been looking at , at the DFI course and a recent staff meeting. Staff Meeting Presentation

Students need to be talking with others, replying and asking questions.

OMG - Technologies - Trailblazers Presentation. Using tech to impact and to be creative.

The sorting algorithm

Gerard spoke about the Digital Technologies Curriculum. This is in 2 parts -

1 - Computational thinking for digital technologies.

2 - Designing and developing digital outcomes

1 is aimed at years 1-10 and can be intergrated into many other learning areas .

Level 6-8 is NCEA Levels 1, 2 3.

Today I learnt about Coding. I don't play Minecraft but Coding to give the avatar directions to move and gain the item was fun. We looked at "scratch" and "Microbits"

Using this I can create some fun lessons and relief lessons.

I could see my classes enjoying working on their Chromebooks for some lessons relief lessons that I have created using Coding. Today, I had fun building a Minecraft base.

DFI   - Day 7

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? Being Cybersmart - with Dorothy Connection between Cybersmart and students devices( chromebook and ipad) Kids on-line all the time, need to be safe. Powerful,positive and pro-active language is used by Manaiakalani. This is what we want to be telling kids. In 2011- lots of students with chromebooks needed to learn about the "safety on line" DB created a doc and shared it world wide. Lots of people commented, Google loved " Be internet smart, Be internet alert, Be internet strong, Be internet kind, Be internet brave, Be internet awesome. They have used this. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional and learners? Today I enjoyed going through the Digital dig and reminding myself about the tasks we have been looking at over the last few weeks. We looked at using Chromebooks and ipads which were fun. We used Screencastify . These are great as they give details of tasks or how to do something and if students get confused and wanted to re-look at how to do the task(rewindable learning). Rename as you set-up. It saves to google drive and I can send the link to someone who needs the details.

DFI Day 6

DFI - Day 6

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

Vicki talked to use via "hangouts" so that we could practice commenting and un-muting today. She spoke about being Connected, within the school,community, nation and globally. Students need to share to make connections. The connected network was created in 2006. There are many different types of schools. 5 new clusters joined in 2015.
This year, 2019 there are 22,000 learners. These schools have the "Shared Language". We're all working together via " learn, create, share".
Refer to slide 7.
Manaiakalani PLD - publicly visible website. Helps with working together, lots of ideas.

Connected through Twitter.
Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu - classes buddying up around NZ. One class comments on the other schools blogs one week and then they swap around.
Blogger Audience- I need to look at DB's toolkit slides.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Google forms - I could use these to pre-test prior knowledge as I thought I could use it them for my recipes so students could add photos to the recipes I would give them.
Google maps    - can use for Cultural Foods topics.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I made a chart today from data from a blog. The chart shows the number of blogs a student did per month over 4 years.
This will work well to show data on Annual report and I intend to do this for 2/3 Childcare for 2019 so I can compare with 2020.

DFI - Day 5

DFI  -Day 5

Agenda

Google education - tests to try

From Dorothy
Visible Teaching and Learning.
Make the learning journey visible to everyone, whanau. (in and out of school)
Likened learning to a maze. You can get lost if you don't have any, many guidelines
Success - students who have done well have read the teachers mind. This is what it looks like and how we are going to get there would be a good way to show, tell students.  Eg, show the class a video of the whole dance and then teach them the start, next day do again and add the next phase of the dance.
Visible learning is rewindable as all of the past lessons are available.

Primary students have different coloured book boxes and the students know if they are in a lower, higher group. Dorothy mentioned collaboration where a better reader reads with a not-so-interested reader.
Visible teaching is accessible,available and advances the learning.
"Class on air" discussed
Teaching as Inquiry.

I spent time today on Hapara workspace looking at the work other teachers had added, lots on Food and Nutrition, as they are public I made some copies.
Vicki showed us how to make the cards coloured so the tasks link.

Home Ec website - I started this, deciding that I would just do Home Ec with the 6 buttons for Yr7 & 8, 9,10,11,12,13.
Buttons
I used food photos from "Unsplash"

DFI -Day 4

DFI Day 4

-Agenda

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

Today Dorothy spoke about "Share" , connected learners' , we need connections and it is great to get responses. In 2005 Youtube started. It meant instant sharing via Bebo etc. It was public and in real-time.

The schools wanted to look at how the could share - assembly, Yearbook. Manaiakalani wants to continue with the things we do but let digital technologies enhance the project, eg. college yearbook is printed and photos added etc.

The digital age has changed the audience - become a global audience.

Sharing with purpose -for an audience. When I went to school I wrote for my teacher alone. Now students share globally. My teacher was a compulsory audience.

Globally, people who choose to look at your work etc, are an "authentic audience".

Manaiakalani chose " Blogger" as their main online space to share. Students were/are taught how to use"Blogger", not their own "personal" space.

Blogger is a tool for teaching students about being " cybersmart"

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

The multimodal format for students will grab their attention and give them choices for the work they could do. Also, a class site will be useful.

Danni Stones - Multimodal site

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

Making a class site,Garden to plates around the globe

I would want to put  a suitable site into Hapara to connect them to certain classes.

sites

DFI Day 3

DFI Day 3

Agenda

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

Google drawing is fun but I will need to practice a lot.
Setting up a Blog, background details and privacy etc.
I took a photo of myself and added it to my blog.
Google slides will be very useful
SMRF

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

Google drawing and slides will be fun to incorporate into lessons, with slides being a good starter. 
Slide Presentation

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Once all of these are set-up it will be a matter of adapting to keep details up-to-date.

Google drawing

Youtube Pasta

Agenda - Resources - adjusting a section of a video to show only the part you need a class to see
Inserting Videos in Slides

DFI Day 2

DFI course Day 2 Monday 11th November

Day 2 agenda

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
  We looked at Hangouts, making an invitation via the calendar to a hangout, replying to the invite( got declined, but that's ok), presenting to the group after unmuting since you should always start with a muted mic. My wee chromebook didn't cope too well with the load , was a bit sluggish.
  The Hapara dashboard is going to be super useful with my classes next year and I am looking forward to setting this up.

Hapara will save time and all students will have their work shared.

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

 Via the Hapara dashboard ,I am going to share recipes that the students can make, photograph, make comments and variations/substitutes.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
  I need to go at my own pace and once I have done something once I can usually workout the pathway to do it again