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.
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