DFI Day 2!

Today was another great day at the DFI - learning, creating and sharing.

I enjoyed diving deeper into the Manaiakalani Kaupapa around effective teaching and accelerated learning. I enjoyed the refresher on turbocharging how we teach in the classroom.

The new learning with the extensions was great! I now have 26 new extensions that I can explore and play with to help support my professional and personal life!

Google Keep is another functional app that I already use. I enjoyed seeing people make the connections of how this can be used across a number of their devices.

I really enjoyed working with Trish to make a recording of our Meet to share our thoughts on some fantastic Maniakalani student blogs!

Here is my Meet Recording.

DCL - Week 5

This Week’s Topic

Leading and planning classroom innovation (SAMR and TPACK).

Flipped Preparation this Week

Completing flipped preparation will give yourself and others the opportunity to extend beyond content in the breakout rooms. Help fellow classmates by coming prepared to participate and contribute.

This week’s Flip preparation has 3 parts:

First familiarise yourself with TPACK and SAMR models. We suggest you watch TPACK in 2 minutes, read this blog article where the seven components of TPACK have been explained in more detail, and watch SAMR in 120 seconds

Then add a slide to your DIGITAL 1 slideset where you use TPACK and/or SAMR to ideate how technology links to your DIGITAL 1 idea. You could for example reflect where your knowledge strengths and weaknesses are relating to your plan and/or consider ways in which a particular technology might enable you to move beyond Substitution and Augmentation to Modify or Redefine learning activities. (This can be done as a group if you are planning a group assignment.)

Lastly, screencast either your TPACK your SAMR reflections and upload that short video to #january2020 Slack channel (and also be prepared to share in a breakout discussion) with #SAMR or #TPACK.  (This can be done as a group if you are planning a group assignment.) This quick How to Screencast Slide -video might be helpful to watch.    

Inspirational Quote of the Week

Next practices – emergent innovations that could open up new ways of working – are much more likely to come from thoughtful, experienced, self confident practitioners working in partnership with other professionals and collectively trying to find new and more effective solutions to intractable problems.

Leadbeater, C. (2006). The innovation forum: Beyond excellence.

Whakatauki

E tipu e rea mō ngā rā o tō ao

Grow and develop in the world that is destined to you

Interpretation

This is the beginning of a whakatauāki written by Sir Apirana Ngata which highlights the importance of being able to respond to new challenges in a new world. Here is a more in-depth description. http://donology.net/writes/grow-and-keep-growing 

Digital Fluency Intensive - Day 1 05.05.20

Today we spent time learning, creating and sharing as a group of teachers and learners from around the country in a fully online environment.

The Agenda for the day is linked here.

One of the create tasks was to use Google Docs to create. I started to create a Strategic Plan Poster/Infographic.

Today I got a deeper appreciation of the origins of Manaiakalani. I really like the table of contents feature of Google Docs and intend to use this, and voice to text in my teaching and learning programmes going forward.

The First Week of the Postgraduate Certificate in Digital and Collaborative Learning!

I was brave and enrolled in the Postgraduate Certificate in Digital and Collaborative Learning! This week I have been involved in two online Zoom meetings where we learnt about the overview of the courses and the tools to engage with course content. I am really excited about participating in this course and learning new theory and skills that I can apply to my practice.

Session 1 - Tuesday 14th April 4,00 - 5.00 pm

This session was primarily about making connections. We started to get to know each other and go through some activities to help us learn how to navigate Zoom. We the discussed the social contract that will be in place for our online sessions to ensure that everyone gets the most from these online interactions. We then had an opportunity to share our expectations of the programme, and learn about the overview of the programme structure and content. During this session we were allocated to a group so that you we could begin to make personal links with other students and meet The Mind Lab facilitators.

Session 2 - Wednesday 15th April 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm

In this session we learnt about the tools that we will be using throughout the programme. The tools are the Portal, Slack and the Google Site of support information for using a range of software.

Digital and Collaborative Learning (DCL) Programme Outcomes

The programme outcomes for DCL graduates are to be able to:

Research, investigate and critique digital pedagogy leadership and influences in contemporary learning environments
Identify, explore and develop a critical approach to research with specific focus on cognitive development and instructional theory.

Musical - Curriculum Integration through The Arts.

This term we have been focussing on a Junior School Musical - One Fly Over the Rubbish Dump. This was an environmentally focussed musical that connects to our school Enviroschools programme. It involved Music, Dance, Drama, and Visual Arts. Students and whanau were involved in all aspects of the musical, with teachers acting as facilitators. This opportunity has inspired some students to want to take advantage of the opportunities that will become available for them in the senior school.

Mihi - Creating a sense of identity.

This term we have been working with whānau and learners to develop an understanding of their whakapapa and identity. Each student had to undertake research with their whānau to establish their places of significance. In class we have scaffolded this further by creating a written mihi and visual mihi template. Each day we are covering different aspects of mihimihi. Through this process, whānau have been actively engaged in the learning of their students. As teachers we have demonstrated a commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Tangata Whenuatanga.

Sharing our learning with our whanau

Using blogs as a tool to share our learning with our whanau.