Digital Fluency - Week Toru

He aha aku akoranga hei āwhina i taku mārama atu ki te ariā ako me te kaupapa o Manaiakalani?

He aha aku akoranga hei whakawhanake i te ngaiotanga,  i taku māia, i taku kakama, i te rere rānei a te mahi?

He aha aku akoranga kia tukua, kia tohaina atu ki āku ākonga?

  

He aha aku akoranga hei whakawhanake i taku māia, i taku kakama, i te rere rānei a te mahi ki taku ao whaiaro?

Learning is meant to be creative - fun, hands on, authentic. What went wrong in Aotearoa? It shouldn't look the same across all kura and kids should be loving school. Manaiakalani embraces this kaupapa, what am doing to keep creativity front and centre of everything I do as a teacher?

I can see how getting better at using Slides and Draw will improve my work flow, I would save so much time and produce more professional content if I just keep practicing.

I will have a go creating Youtube playlists with my students and putting it up on the class site. We have recently received student feedback that they would like to be listening to music, but my co teacher and I had taken away that option at the start of the year due to concerns over appropriate content and time spent scrolling through channels. I think this would be a cool alternative, especially if the students can co-construct to create the playlists.

Today I learnt to use Slides to create a Pick a Path (Work in progress above). I've started to make a pick a path to engage my class in the Youtube playlist idea and as a discussion point around Youtube boundaries. I look forward to teaching my students to get super creative and make a pick a path, perhaps even as a really fun writing tool.

Digital Fluency - Week Rua

Week Rua Reflection

He aha aku akoranga hei āwhina i taku mārama atu ki te ariā ako me te kaupapa o Manaiakalani?

He aha aku akoranga hei whakawhanake i te ngaiotanga,  i taku māia, i taku kakama, i te rere rānei a te mahi?

He aha aku akoranga kia tukua, kia tohaina atu ki āku ākonga?  

He aha aku akoranga hei whakawhanake i taku māia, i taku kakama, i te rere rānei a te mahi ki taku ao whaiaro?

Ako: Manaiakalani pedagogy is not necessarily about reinventing the wheel, but rather in seeking out the most effective ways to engage learners, empower them digitally and give them a wide range of ways learn, create and share a wider range of content.

Confidence: I didn't teach online during the lockdown, so I feel ready to share screen, record, create and run online meetings now. If I needed to teach remotely, now, I know I can.

Take-aways: For my class: resizing embedded videos in HTML view, to fit blogs. For me: committing to using my Google Keep, especially now I know I can make it look pretty, send to Google Docs and open it up in the side bar in email.

Digital Fluency - Week Tahi

Week Tahi Reflection

Today I learnt that Manaiakalani is the product of a lot of hard mahi from people both across and outside of the education sector. It boils down to equity, all students should have the access to the tools and learning to help them keep up and thrive in our digital world. The device itself should be thought of as a pencil rather than a book i.e. it's a tool rather than the source of all knowledge.. if it doesn't work or fit the purpose, sharpen it or find a new one.

My workflow could improve tenfold by just exploring what Google has to offer. Learning some of the tips and tricks to formatting a Google Doc or simply following the suggestions around keeping my drive Marie Kondo-ified, could in themselves make my work life flow so much smoother.

I found that 'straightforward' tasks such as the scavenger hunt or even the talk to text reading log exercise would be powerful assessment and learning tools to take into the classroom. By simply following through 'basic' instructions, I quickly saw which useful tools I neglect to use regularly and discovered a few fundamentals I didn't know. I could use these as diagnostic tools to see where the gaps are among my more competent digital users in class.

It was a relief to see that I am not the only one who has things to learn, equally I found it a little confronting to see just how quickly things have progressed without my keeping up. I realise that this course is very timely, as I will get left behind otherwise. I don't want to feel incompetent and settle into staying in the digital dark ages, both professionally and personally. I feel confident this course will teach me heeeeaps.