Some PLD notes on Reading Eggs
Monday, 5 August 2019
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
DFI Session 9 Revision 25th June 2019
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Ubiquitous carries the idea that learning takes places outside of the traditional
school/classroom in the digital era
school/classroom in the digital era
Barriers are removed:
Time - 24/7 potentially ie the time of the child’s choice (Empowering the learner)
The time of the teacher (adult learner) choice eg online Toolkits
The time of the teacher (adult learner) choice eg online Toolkits
Geography- anywhere in the world, not just inside the school walls
People- not just from your assigned teacher standing in front of you -
anyone, including experts, other teachers etc
anyone, including experts, other teachers etc
Pace of learning - go faster/slower, rewind over and over, skip easy stuff...
This diagram is NOT suggesting kids are ‘working’ for 12 hour days or having extended ‘screen time’ (quelle horreur!!) It is suggesting that kids are
empowered to continue or extend learning at a time that works for them,
around their sports, music, church, family etc
empowered to continue or extend learning at a time that works for them,
around their sports, music, church, family etc
So, we can assume that traditionally, not a lot of active learning was going
on outside of school.
on outside of school.
Offering Ubiquitous learning opportunities gives kids more hours to
continue learning....
continue learning....
Idea behind this is to stop the slide over the summer learning months.
Big benefits of blogging to writing achievement - needs to be 2 plus
regular posts each week - especially over the summer months.
regular posts each week - especially over the summer months.
If technology is JUST a tool -please don’t use it. Find something much cheaper that will get the job done
We know it is a tool, but it should be a super-power-enabling-gadget!!
Or it is an expensive time waster
If it is JUST a tool in your classroom, get help from the team to change the way you are using it
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I will be continuing to have my class learning space as the basis of everything I do. I want to continue exploring paper less ways that engage my learners, whilst offering opportunites for them to learn, create and share. I will keep promoting my learning space and blog to my parents and will promote regular blogging and positive commenting amongst my students.I will keep blogging after the DFI ends
I will continue using this blog for all my reflections.
I will connect with colleagues to share my practice- @teacherslcs
Class on air?
Cluster site
Today I finished the google level 1 exam with 22 minutes to spare from the 3 hours and I PASSED!
Examination Successful
Thank you for completing the exam.
Congratulations! You have passed the Google Certified Educator Level 1exam.
Today I have learnt about the benefits of Ubiquitous learning.
It starts with a class learning space and making those important learning moments rewindable, I am looking forward to making the most of my site and the 1 to 1 chromebooks going forward. Access from home and promoting the learning space so important for our learners.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
I plan on continuing to foster my student's use of the class learning space.I want to have my students using forms and docs more- with the eventual aim to get them creating their own forms.
I look forward to continuing to get my students to blog and to teach them about positive, thoughtful and helpful when commenting.
I would like to eventual have my students creating their own rewindable learning moments.
I will try some of the ideas below:
Other useful links:
Continue to do some of the online tool kits
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110563696094646435938
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
The Google Level 1 certification is another tool in my C.V kit and very useful qualification to have. The end result of a wonderful terms' work. I realise that this is still just the beginning. I am looking forward to continuing to explore the use of technology to assist me to do / create things in my personal life.
Another thank you to my school, and Dorothy and Mark for the DFI opportunity. It's been totally awesome. I shall miss the Tuesday sessions and those great Google Hang-outs.
Monday, 17 June 2019
DFI Session 8 Devices 18th June 2019
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Why cybersmart? At home in a digital world - ultimate aim for all.
Cybersmart is a whole school focus, identify priority categories for your learners
Implementation: Smart Learners Term 1- Smart Footprint Term 2, Smart relationships Term 3- these three EVERY YEAR
Kawa of Care doc
Any Social Media comment is 'Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful;
Cyber smart Kawa of Care http://www.manaiakalani.org/ Learn, create, share
Blog protocols Smart teachers cyber smart info cyber smart Home Being cyber smart
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Use of a writing google modelling book - for group writing. Thanks Mark for sharing a template. This will be a great thing to get up and running.I plan on going through some of the exercises in preparation for the google exam next Tuesday.
Passing the google exam Level 1 will be great recognition of a term's work.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Use a google modelling book for each group of students, share with specific children to use the onectrl alt / show all short cuts - on a chrome book- this is very useful to know!
Using screen casify - I have done one already - now two videos.
I have made this screencastify on writing the about section on each blog:
The development of a class learning space for use in my classroom with rewaindable content is definitely assisting overall teaching and learning.
SMRF IT
Stop
Make a copy
Rename
File
IT
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
I can't think of anything from today that I could use in my personal life. But if I do, I shall do an edit and add it in!
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
DFI Session 7 Computational Thinking 11.06.19
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Digital fluency intensive is about empowering teachers and learners
We want to see this move completely transforming the lives of family/whanau
Nigel Latta concludes: The way we are using tech is changing the lives of communities.
Watch on Demand
Students with chromebook at home- teaching students about Internet online shopping - parent access to a debit card- NO MORE being ripped off by those awful trucks - wow, this is awesome!
Decile 1 students have heard 32 million less words than a decile 10 child - before they arrive at school. Terrible statistic.
1/3 is the typical turnover of children in any particular year at a decile 1 school - not transients - this is dis-empowerment - you have to move, etc
5 plus a day
Conversing in a ping pong style 5 backwards and forwards. Set up and scaffold opportunities to learn and keep conversations going. New Entrant teachers at decile one schools are doing this.
Blogging - continuing the conversations - share on the blog is the start of new learning. Teachers teaching the back and forth - with commenting on posts - keep the conversation going. Try to get a 5 plus going in a threaded conversation on a blog.
Write a reply just like an old style letter. Accelerate literacy skills by focus on communicating in blog commenting
When learning is visible our young people are more likely to engage in and actively pursue learning that is authentic.
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Change in Mind-Set - sharing teacher planning.
Voluntarily about to launch - schools content providers and corporate volunteers
SO semi autonomous flying cars are here in NZ but do we know what that means?
For years, experts have warned against the unanticipated effects of general artificial intelligence (AI) on society. Ray Kurzweil predicts that by 2029 intelligent machines will be able to outsmart human beings. Stephen Hawking argues that “once humans develop full AI, it will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate”. Elon Musk warns that AI may constitute a “fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization”.*
Machines cannot be assumed to be inherently capable of behaving morally. Humans must teach them what morality is, how it can be measured and optimised.
But in real-life situations, optimization problems are complex. For example, how do you teach a machine to algorithmically maximise fairness or to overcome racial and gender biases in its training data? A machine cannot be taught what is fair unless the engineers designing the AI system have a precise conception of what fairness is.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I have begun to learn about the Digital technologies curriculum, which is great as implementation is next year.
I am looking forward to using Mine craft adventurer and scratch with my learners.
The most useful thing that will help is learning about all these new things to help me to implement the new curriculum from next year.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Showing and discussing chromebook damage photos. Des and Troy - together we are destroy wrap around the chromebooks for protection.
First blog post - an introduction about self- photo, some facts..
First blog post - an introduction about self- photo, some facts..
EVIDENCE states students who make 2 plus blog posts a week go up
Minecraft hour of code! I am going to introduce this.
Tips for beginning with Chrome books- thank you Mark for sharing this with me, this will be very useful.
Binary numbers... I had literally no idea, thanks to Sharon, Mark and Emily for breaking this down for me- oh and to Sharon's tic tacs! I still need a lot of work on this one.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Playing with Hour of code or Scratch could make for a fun Saturday evening - but too be honest I'd prefer time off my computer in my personal down time or having a good sleep.
Tuesday, 4 June 2019
DFI Session 6 Media- 04.06.19
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Being Connected. The point of being digital
Learners learning globally- connected to others. E.g- tagging author in a blog post for a story and having conversations with an author.
Language to be shared across levels. A shared sense of language - the same kind of DNA/terms running across all (Learn, Create, Share)
Can start with either part - e.g create as in past staff meeting
Connected learners share
You tube a good platform for Live Streaming - common for parents and children. Children can't access Facebook streams - not at school either.
Pretty cool, using a drone to film school cross country live - and played on giant TV screens for parents to watch - plus replays via You Tube.
Your own Sky Satellite truck below:
https://www.ptengland.school.nz/connect/pes-online
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Making playlists in You tube I already knew - but a helpful reminder.From 2020 team could have a site with each teacher being responsible for updating their own class learning pages? Shared stuff like Inquiry - a different site
Two weeks ago I was empowered to create sites for themes in reading, now I have learnt that all this can be done using google drawings. So I could create a bunch of google drawings as themes for different texts, better still how about other teachers do the same and save a folder of these for us all to use? Food for thought! This would make our workload so much easier. As teachers we are all responsible for making our workload easier. Sharing is caring!
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Google Draw
I have created a google drawing on Possums - using multimodal tasks. I can see this being very valuable for my learners - especially when I acquire more devices. Something even more useful would be for all other teachers to create a bank of these tasks that we can share! In my opinion teachers do not share enough - we create the resources ourselves - when we could be working so much more smarter!
I have also created an individual avatars in drawings that can be linked to student work/ blogs later. The students can add their own images with a camera in time and add a comment in the notes underneath.
I can't wait to continue using my class learning site in class.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Going back to the discussion on drones, I would love to purchase a drone to take movies / photos of my house, garden, neighbouring area and make some really cool videos.
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
DFI- Session 5 Enabling Access- Sites
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
I have learnt that teaching and learning needs to be visible. In the past I have been a big sharer using tools like Class Dojo, but the idea of a google site to share learning with students and parents is so much more beneficial, especially as everyone can see what's ahead and the journey so far - all in one spot and as a record too.
Key Learning: The importance of making our teaching and learning visible to the learners and their parents.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I have learnt more around creating buttons and using some of the features in drawings. I have a lot more to learn, but I am gradually developing my skills here.I feel rather pleased with the progress on my class learning space so far.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
I am in the process of creating a google site for my learners. I can see how beneficial this will be - it will tie in beautifully with students knowing their next steps in learning and what they need to do next.
I am looking forward to introducing this to my learners very soon.
My current static website of links will be decommissioned and my new learning space will take over. I'm very excited!
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
My class learning site will improve my professional role as a teacher immensely- but from today's session, I have not come across any tips for improving personal life, perhaps just better computer skills which will streamline things more.
Kaupapa words as above
Making teaching and learning visible - make sure people can see what is being taught and learnt. A very straight forward word to unpack...
Can we see it? Invisible or visible?
Can anyone see it? Invisible or visible?
(we don’t want: murky, hazy, foggy, opaque, tinted....or other words shrouded in mystery)
A part of learners struggling to achieve - has been because we have kept a significant part of the learning journey hidden.
The use of technology has been a game changer for our profession!
A device is an interactive whiteboard in the hand of every child
Use the parent portal to Hapara - so they can see child's docs....
Something to investigate: Manakalani class on air?
The more we make it visible the more we can connect our learners
My new class learning space is a great work in progress!
Thank you for another fascinating session of learning!
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Understanding and Managing Children's anxiety presentation notes 22.05.19
Full notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yDR5uow5uA4v3XpHbCPjRJKSBU6LXetJDR4dui84rIA/edit#heading=h.focxn62vme1a
Understanding and Managing Children’s anxiety Workshop presentation
Wednesday May 22, 2019Catherine Gallagher- Clinical PsychologistPaparoa Street School Hall – N.Z.E.I- 7pm-9pm
Key Points:
- Managing anxiety requires firm approaches- can look like firm manage of behaviour - have to get the balance right
- Anxiety is...normal and healthy. fight, flight, freeze response (the body’s alarm response)
- Brains are designed to prioritise risk- safe/ unsafe. Threat system dominates when there is a risk. Located at the back of head
- The brain can trick us into thinking we are in danger right now!
- RESOURCE- Pillars - a response for children whose parents are in prison
- Anxiety factors - Anxiety runs in families - genetics, support for parents vital in managing anxiety,
- Experience- the brain has evolved to deal with an ever changing world, so experience shapes brain development. “Neurons that fire together wire together”. It’s the thoughts we have about these experiences. e.g responses to events- earthquakes
- The Responses of others- social connection, the antidote to stress, support kids to stay in the feeling long enough- anxiety is fear in the absence of threat, change wording to hey, when this happens we have a plan for it - the brain loves plans!
- Our nervous systems not designed to be calm all the time, supposed to pulse in and out of regulation. Distress does not equal harm. Often biggest job is to support with distress
- Window of tolerance- time to settle in - then get into the zone, sometimes we get over-regulated. We often do things to keep ourselves in the window of tolerance. Some of our students have tiny windows of tolerance - making them really challenging to teach. The idea of feeling resourced and supported is so, so important.
- Change can start with the grown ups, we see bigger picture, we are motivated for change, children too scared/stuck to try anything different, we hold power to influence behaviour change, the magic of ‘mirror neurons’, we more likely to stay in our ‘upstairs brain’
- Regulate ourselves in the classroom- drink of water, fresh air, teachers having a mic to assist in talking in a calm voice assisted with stress levels. If we talk quietly and calmly, children tend to listen more. True.
- Anxiety- emotional needs and attachment relationship- lower and keep expectations realistic for that child, skills the child needs to learn- e.g mindfulness, breathing, importance of exercise, practise being brave and experiencing anxiety- and managing behaviour, correct emotionally - right brain, redirect/correct left brain, name it to tame it, help child to put words around the experience / feeling helps to bring a greater sense of control. Skills are only one little part of the puzzle.
- Know the kids in our room, Tennis Vs Squash analogy - children asks questions, refuses to… we hit the ball back, talk the child into doing something. Sometimes shots get a bit dirtier. Move towards squash- take a moment to work out what you are likely to get. Make accommodations - plan for child’s needs...plan for the moment there will be an ‘alarm’ moment. How are we going to manage the worst, what help will you need?
- GREAT RESOURCE! 10 minute parenting podcasts - ‘Are we there Yet? Radio NZ. These look excellent! Check them out. Could be great for sharing with parents, https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/are-we-there-yet/podcast?page=2
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