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 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. 

Welcome to my professional learning blog.

This is a place where I can reflect on my Teaching as Inquiry goals

and how they link to the Education Council's

Our Code - Our Standards