DFI week 9

DFI Week 9 External Recognition

What an amazing day in the morning Vicki shared with us about further opportunities in Manaiakalani. I attempted my Google External exam. Reflecting now the 9 weeks with DFI was an incredible journey. I am proud to say that I have become more confident in using the google tools personally. In a professional capacity I feel more empowered in teaching my learners. A great thank you to all the Manaikalani facilitators. It is an awesome achievement for me to have received my Manaiakalani  Badge!

DFI Computational Thinking Week 8

Today we had Kerry do a presentation on Computational Thinking. The Manaiakalani Outreach goal is for teachers to be confident to deliver online learning as well as one to one. There are two areas, Computational Thinking and Design and developing. DFI was a solution or a plan to quickly empower teachers. What stood out for me was, a quote "The Manaikalani kaupapa of empowerment is about the advancing of Rangatiratanga taking back control of their own lives" Pat Snedden, Chair MET.

Technology is a tool offering learners experiences and opportunities. Manaiakalani has the perfect tool to empower learners to harness conversations(writing) in a blog.

Today we learnt to create an activity on Scratch using coding. Below is a short video of today's creation.

 

DFI Week 7 Devices

In our session today Vicki presented on Cybersmart. Manaiakalani has embedded Cybersmart as part of their goals. In 2011 Manaiakalani piloted 1-1 devices. Being Cybersmart is referred to as the roof of our houses.I n 2012 some schools trialed the Manaiakalani curriculum. Professional development was then provided to support teachers. In present day all learners are required to learn cybersmart language. Being cybersmart are empowering students to be confident, connected and life long learners. We have learnt about the importance of learning being ubiquitous (anytime, anywhere and at any pace). Ubiquitous learning is rewindable, visible and keeps students connected. During 2020 and our covid 19 lockdowns some of our students  learning  suffered even though we provided them with learning packs. I do see how ubiquitos learning will now benefit our students. Students can now access our classroom google sites where teachers can provide learning resources and tasks for students to do from home. At the same time when teachers are not able to be in class they can leave prepared tasks for students. In my class my students are now learning to access our class site. They are becoming familiar with the homepage, finding buttons for the different learning areas and attempting the tasks. This is great when having multiple groups in the class and they can find their learning group on the class site. Ubiquitous learning will also be a remedy for  the summer slump after the long school holidays as we do experience.

Myself and Susana and Tania have worked collaboratively and experimented with the  the Explain Everything App

I have created  slide on cybersafety with  Room 24

DFI Week 6 Enabling Access - Sites

Being connected in the digital age is important. There are many clusters that are part of the Manaiakalani Programme. It is important to have a shared language of Learn, Create, Share. The Manaiakalani programme has been designed to share the pedagogy every year. Manaiakalani implements a Kaupapa that requires four elements: being connected, ubiquitous learning, being empowered and being visible. 

Being visible again was one of the key learning aspects today. We dealt with the purpose of a learning site. Students should know where to access learning. The learning sites should be visually appealing and the layout should be easily accessible for students. I have worked on my class site today and have tried to make it more appealing.

Earlier today

Please click on the image below and have a look at some changes I have done to my class google site.

DFI Week5 Collaborate Sites

Today we have learnt why being visible is important. Manaikalani uses a framework of a house to understand where teachers, the school and learners fit in. The joist needs to be strong as it is the foundation.We have to put our fears aside and so that the learning journey is visible. We have to think of planning, process, outcomes and assessment to achieve success. We have learnt to make a multi model site. Learning to create multi modal sights has opened up a new way of integrating different types of texts.

Please click on the screenshot below and visit my multi modal sight that I have created about  Relationships.

I have created another sight about Matariki.

DFI Week 4 Dealing with Data

Today we learnt about the Share (Tohatoha) pedagogy. Interesting to have learnt that during the 2020 lockdown Manaiakalani created many newsletters, and approximately 30 000 students were sharing using blogger. Understanding that sharing is human nature. In 2006 Manaiakalani's goal was to work with learners and educating them to share with an authentic audience. The largest audience are reached via Google.

Today I have learnt to create a google form. I have chosen to do one on my class inquiry about seeds. I have used five different types of questioning e.g. multi choice, short questions, paragraphing. which I will be sharing with my students.  

I have created a mymap about my school ( Otahuhu Primary) location, giving the location a different purple colour to easily be visible. 

In our afternoon session we looked at students from various schools blogs and create a spread sheet and graph . I have commented on a student and the frequency that he blogged between 2017 to present day 2021. It was interesting to see in his first year he only posted once and during the lockdown last year he posted 31 times but for this year so far only 6 posts. Creating this spreadsheets is a fantastic learning tool for myself and an excellent sharing tool in regards to sharing with students, staff and personally to gather data and analyse it.

DFI Week 3 Media

Today I have learnt all about the Create pedagogy. The Manaiakalani Hook places students at the centre of creating and learning, to be creative with their mind, hands, body and mouth. SISOMO sight, sound and motion was a take away for today. Also very interesting to learn that Manaiakalani has participated in a film festival for the past thirteen years. I have learnt to create google slides within a short space of time and present and share it with a group that I have worked with. I have successfully done a google drawing about myself and inserted it into my blog. With my learners I am now able to share videos from my You Tube Channel and playlist relating to our topic study. As an educator ongoing learning is Key, I am growing and acquiring new learning that will help me  professionally and personally.

Week 2 DFI

Today we learnt about Manaiakalani's Goals and how important the Ako is. It is important to know what your school's beliefs are are in learning and what the learning would look like. I have learnt to organise my gmail, giving it a theme, arranging mail to most recent first and creating a signature. I have also learnt to arrange my tabs in order of preference for easy access. I am more confident in sharing a video on my blog page. A good learning day for me!

 We have learnt to set up a google meet with myself, Luciana and Alicia.I made a recording and commented on a video from a student's blog from another school. 

Week 1 DFI

Today I have started an amazing journey. It has been interesting to have learnt that Manaiakalani started in 2006 and the history to how, why and where. In my first day I have gained some confidence in organising my drive into folders, creating a google document and learning how to organise headings and linking them for easy access when sharing with others. A highlight in my learning was creating a poster that would be excellent in teaching my Year 1 and 2 class. As a junior teacher learning to be able to do voice typing is an absolute treasure as running records is part of everyday literacy teaching an assessment in a junior class.

My proud creation today is a poster for Otahuhu Primary for our Otahuhu"s Got Talent competition

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