DAY 8- EMPOWERING

 Rangatiratanga - chieftainship, the right to exercise authority....voice/choice /ownership.

The catch phrases used to start our sessions today. The key idea being education can empower people to boldly step into uncharted experiences and opportunities.

 It takes relationship and safe parameters to build trust for risk taking, even in a digital educational environment.

Google exam prep:

This week we looked into what we need to be prepared for next week exam.

This was refreshing as a few tips and tricks were mentioned and good to note ready

for next week exam.

CODING:

Coding seems to be a lot of fun for the students. This was great to explore as my classroom

and team are looking at going to the mindlab next term.

We have also talked about purchasing robotics for our school,

having time to explore these coding sites gave me a heads up as to what we could use these for.

Today during the create task I created a pong game using scratch.

I loved how there was a tutorial for each step on scratch, this will make it easy when giving this as a learning task for students.

Students who are digitally savvy will be able to go and explore in their own time and not have to wait for explicit teacher instruction.

I didn't finish my game, however here is a snapshot of the task I was creating.

DAY 7- DEVICES

 DFI Ubiquitous

DFI ubiquitous means that students, whanau, family and schools (anyone) has access at any place at any one time to learning, This is important for whanau to have connections and support their tamariki in their learning.

Students are able to rewind their learning from school and share/ complete/ continue any mahi at home/ or anywhere that is not their classroom learning space.   

This links to the digital curriculum within New Zealand, and teaching our Tamariki how to be safe online. This is an important tool that must sit behind the learning anywhere anytime motto. Students need to know how to be safe online when they are out of school, understanding what to do if something goes wrong, and who to tell if this happens. This allows Tamariki to be connected, empowered, connected, creative and making learning visible. 

My classroom site is an example of how I make learning accessible to my Tamariki and whanau within my classroom. 

Room 7 Classroom Learning Hub 2021. (My classroom Site) 

Shortcuts on chromebooks is a great way to save time and frustration when working. Here is a slide I worked on today about shortcuts, I didn't manage to get it all done but I did learn a few shortcuts that will be good to know to teach my learners who use chromebooks each day in the classroom. 

My Shortcut slide link.. ☺☺☺

Explain everything is an app students are able to use to help them explore any device they use. This app makes learners once again accessible to any learning tasks.  In today's session we got to explore this tool as if we were a learner, this was great to see the learning that can be done by any student, limiting any barriers. 

The afternoon session I spent creating my own Hapara dashboard workspaces, this was successful as I was able to create things I will use within my classroom programme.  

DAY 6- DFI Enabling Access

ENABLING ACCESS

 For the Manaiakalani pedagogy aspect of this week, it was to be about 'Enabling Access' and being 'Connected'. Similar to week 5, connecting students, whanau and schools within learning. Making learning visible and accessible for all.  

This week we spent a large amount of the session on google sites.  It was useful to view educational sites that have been produced by teachers with different levels of digital experience. Also to receive feedback on my class site by those same people. No matter how experienced you are there is always something you can add and adjust to make your site more engaging and captivating for learners. A chance to also reflect upon our own blogs and make a few goals to achieve today was important, for me I realised I didn't have a button for my cybersmart section or a link to other classes sites from my team. 

I set myself the goal of tidying my class site home page, which was done by creating a new button to have on my homepage to connect our cybersmart page, to link two other classroom sites from my team onto the site and also to check all fonts are readable and engaging for learners. 

DAY 5- COLLABORATIVE SITES

 Making learning Visible 

The kaupapa of  day 5 was around making teaching and learning visible for not only the students but other teachers, whanau and community members. If teaching and learning can be found, easily accessible, expectations known and work exposed; all this could reduce any frustration of failure. 

Allowing success for everyone, making learning achievable. 

WHAT TOOLS CAN BE USED:

The digital tools presented today were the use of multi modal (sheets), sites, blog labels and the teacher dashboard. Remembering that your classroom site is like a shop window, it needs to be capturing and inviting for users. I continuously reflect on my own classroom site and look at other schools, classrooms and teachers to find ways of creating a site that will capture my learners and keep them engaged. 

Here is the link to my current classroom site. 

I use a range of google forums when creating learning and planning for my students, whanau and community to access. Hoping that it will help to strengthen the home and school learning a little more. 

Multimodal Sites:

Unfortunately with internet/power issues I missed some of today session, however once it came back on I was able to go back into the resources provided and catch myself back up. 

Today we explored other sites that people have created for their classrooms then we got given the task to create our own site, based on a topic of our choice. As we are going to be doing a short unit on Matariki from week 7-week 10 I decided to join the group who focused on a multimodal site around matariki, this I can then link for my students can work their way through during our short inquiry focus.  

Multimodal is an accessible way for all learners to learn, with multi leveled text, a range of leveled text, videos, story recordings and multi leveled questions all make this way of learning accessible, engaging and challenging for all learners.  

This is a site I will be using within my classroom.