Staff Meeting held at Taipa Area School, Tuesday 28th May 2019.
Lead by Kerry Boyd-Preece
Learning happens when meaning is CREATED in the brain.
CREATE helps to engage students in the curriculum and with 21st learning technologies and to empower them to use their device to be creators of their own learning, not just consumers.
Give students something to do which demands thinking, learning then naturally results.
If students are actively involved in what they are creating (creating to learn) they will be utilising higher level thinking.
Learn Create Share is NOT linear. Students may Share to Learn or Create to Learn.
Using maths and giving students a problem then the materials to solve this themselves is a good example of using create to learn.
We had a go at creating our own short movies.
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
DFI 9: Review
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Ubiquitous Learning
Thank you to Venessa and Kerry for leading us through this DFI, an extremely worthwhile experience.
Ubiquitous Learning
- ANYWHERE
- ANYTIME
- ANY PACE
Summer Learning Journey is an opportunity for students to blog over summer and the data shows that these students don't get the 'summer slide'.
Ubiquitous learning allows students to continue their learning outside of the school day or if they are away or unwell.
The power of rewindable learning.
"If its worth teaching, it's worth capturing."
"If its worth learning, it's worth capturing."
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Today the main portion of time aside from this morning on ubiquitous learning was spent sitting the Google for Educators Level 1 Exam.
So happy to say that I PASSED which has increased my confidence - yay!
Today the main portion of time aside from this morning on ubiquitous learning was spent sitting the Google for Educators Level 1 Exam.
So happy to say that I PASSED which has increased my confidence - yay!
Thank you to Venessa and Kerry for leading us through this DFI, an extremely worthwhile experience.
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
DFI 8: Computational Thinking
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa today - specifically empowerment?
Being EMPOWERED - we want our young people to feel confident and EMPOWERED to drive their own learning.
Decile 1 students on average have heard 30, 000, 000 LESS words spoken at school entry compare to those entering decile 10 schools.
To have a voice everyone needs to be empowered to be confident to use the technology as we move forward into an even more digital world e.g automated checkout, online voting etc.
EMPOWERMENT = Student Agency.
Agency is having the power or capacity to act and make choices. (NZC 2007)
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
What is the Digital Technologies Curriculum.
Computational Thinking is being able to give a set of instructions that a computer could follow so that they can become CREATORS of Digital Technology and not just users.
Coding is at the heart of Computational Thinking and the Digital Technologies Curriculum however this is not where is begins and ends.
Its about kids creating their own digital solutions to problems.
We had a chance to try out some of the technology. Meg and I used a combination of StopMotion, GreenScreen App and iMovie to create a simple movie where the focus was on us using the software so we can take this back to use with our classes. Here is the SHORT clip we created.
We even uploaded to Youtube!
Monika from the Waitangi Center told us about a free app called FLICK which allows files to be literally 'flicked' from one device to another e.g ipad to Chromebook. This will be AMAZING for timesaving and frustration in being able to share video files especially. I am looking forward to trying this out.
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
DFI 7: Dealing with Data
What did I learn that increased my understanding of being connected with Manaiakalani’s kaupapa and pedagogy?
When we are well connected we are all getting and giving the same messages.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
In Google Sheets I really liked the tip about being able to 'freeze' a column or columns and then navigate across the rest of the columns. This is great and something I was not aware of.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Google Maps - although I was not able to try this out as I did not have access to MyMaps I can see this being used by my class as we investigate our family histories this term. It would be cool to make one of these maps showing where all of our ancestors originally came from.
I am really enthusiastic about the ideas shared by Alicia Craig from Ohaewai School around using Google Forms. She shared ideas such as a from for gathering students number knowledge and creating reading responses on Google Forms to help them prepare for online testing situations and make them familiar with such applications. The thing that most inspired me was the BreakOut idea, I can see the kids being very engaged and motivated by this. I have begun today creating my own BreakOut for my students later in the Term linked to our Topic and Reading.
I learnt a lot more today about what is possible in forms and began creating a simple example of how a pick-a-path type story might work.
We also explored Google Sheets today.
As part of our learning around Google Sheets we created Charts which can be inserted into other Docs. These can either be "published" and embedded or saved as an image.
We then also completed a Blog Analysis Graph to show a students blogging history since they began.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
I learnt how and why to clear my cache!
Wednesday, 1 May 2019
DFI Session 6: Enabling Access
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa, pedagogy and enabling access/ visible learning?
Today was a great reminder about where docs and slides need to be filed in my Drive to ensure that people outside of school have access to what is visible on my site.
Lots of the docs would not show when sharing my site with others at DFI!
It was great to be able to have time to look at the sites of others and critique these before reflecting back upon my own site and making developments and changes to my site so that more of the Learning Intentions and Purpose for learning is shared throughout the learning areas.
Today was a great reminder about where docs and slides need to be filed in my Drive to ensure that people outside of school have access to what is visible on my site.
Lots of the docs would not show when sharing my site with others at DFI!
It was great to be able to have time to look at the sites of others and critique these before reflecting back upon my own site and making developments and changes to my site so that more of the Learning Intentions and Purpose for learning is shared throughout the learning areas.
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