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

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

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

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

So, we can assume that traditionally, not a lot of active learning was going
on outside of school.

Offering Ubiquitous learning opportunities gives kids more hours to
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.

Summer slide article

Blogging supports writing outcomes

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 

Opportunities slide show

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:

https://sites.google.com/manaiakalani.org/pld/tuhi-mai-tuhi-atu

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.

DFI Session 8 Devices 18th June 2019

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Talk the same language across the Years - 1- 13

Why cybersmart? At home in a digital world - ultimate aim for all.

A focus a term- for cybersmart categories

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

Taking kids online - is just like taking them to camp - we need to treat with the same care - just like we do with RAMS etc

Kawa of Care doc

Teach cybersmart within your literacy programme - embed it!

Any Social Media comment is 'Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful;

Hapara teacher dashboard presentation

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 one

ctrl 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!

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.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/what-next/episodes/s2-e3

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. 

Trailblazers presentation

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..

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.

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

Potential to LIVE stream school events for parents who can't attend / world wide audience

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:

Work on live streaming protocols- only do a wave- no looking directly at the camera, turn settings initially to private then can change.
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

Put instructions or examples outside the palate as these are not downloadable- anything on outside not part of final png

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.