DFI Week 8 Reflections

Week 8

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa

and pedagogy

Today really made me reflect on our whanau/families especially the ones that

struggle day to day

financially. My understanding is that Initially this Manaiakalani kaupapa started with

schools in Auckland that had/have lower deciles and whanau that didn't have much

financial means.

Probably working long hours and not getting much money. Not having much money

took away options and options in life to do things hence less opportunities.Manaiakalani has gone a long way to crossing the divide of equity gap(at school) in

getting

students connected online and embedding the Learn/create/Share kaupapa.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow

as a professional?

Gradually increasing and adding to my  knowledge has increase my capabilities  and

confidence in the google apps I use regularly such as doc, sheets, sites etc

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

Coding seems to be a lot of fun for the students. Not really my cup of tea.

But it was the first time I actually gave it a go. So I can say I tried it and have a

little bit of knowledge. A little bit of computation.

Also I really enjoyed learning about MOTE last night at the staff session. 

Whether you're at home or in the classroom, mote helps educators and students to stay connected. Students canleave voice notes, and react to teacher feedback and comments, to let teachers know

that they've understood and will action feedback, or that they need more help.What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my

personal life?

Gradually increasing and adding to my  knowledge has increase my capabilities and confidence in the google apps I use regularly such as doc, sheets, sites etc

DFI Week 7 Reflections

Week 7 DFI Reflections

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa

and pedagogy?

Learn/Create/Share is not just a pedagogy that can be used specifically for

digital devices. This pedagogy can be applied to all learning in a variety of

different ways. However a digital device can give students a lot more access

to information and amplify their learning as well as share more.

I have been in school camp so I missed this session and there are

many ways to use Learn/Create/Share pedagogy without digital devices.

However being able to share our EOTC experience was a lot easier with social

media capabilities with whanau.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow

as a professional?

Gradually increasing and adding to my  knowledge has increase my

capabilities  and confidence in the google apps I use regularly such as

doc, sheets, sites etc

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

Identifying that students know the pedagogy of Learn/Create/Share is

not only used for using digital devices.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow

in my personal life?

Gradually increasing and adding to my  knowledge has increase my capabilities 

and confidence in the google apps I use regularly such as doc, sheets, sites etc

DFI Week 6 Reflections

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa

and pedagogy?

A lot more about being connected and the positivity and benefits of being connected.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Today I found it really interesting looking at other peoples sites that they have set up.

What makes a good site and user friendly. I found that our current Team site that we are

using does have some good features which include Visible teaching and learning,

Multimodal content, Multitext content ie a variety of texts supporting the 'main' text, Ubiquitous access to learning - could the child learn by themselves eg from Starship Hospital?,

Connected (Blog links, school site), Are learners empowered (have agency) over data eg tracking sheets etc, Effective teaching practice eg NZC, learning progressions, NZQA etc

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

I learned that the google site is generally very user friendly and a one stop shop for

teachers, students and parents. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Spam. Thanks for the tip. I have definitely had that issues.

DFI Week 5 Reflection

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

• I am gain a greater understanding of Visible Learning  and how it can enhanced  my role for as a teachers and they become evaluators of my teaching and other teachers I work with.  I also try to link it to some of John Hattie Visible Learning work and how teaching occurs when teachers see learning through the eyes of students and help them become their own teachers. I see rewindable learning and some of the google sites, mutli modle learning as avenues for this to happen. Lots of work still needed around this.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Once again using multi modle approaches makes learning rewindable and accessible to

all learners which can minimise some workload for teachers. More ability to engage parents as

well with their childs learning and make comments and feedback.

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  Rewindable learning that is has

• videos explaining what to do, stories they can go back to use, user friendly pages.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

• Keep on keeping on!

Creating Button's (Maria Krause)

Embedding Youtube clips- All Blacks come to Awapuni School

Multi Modle

Dyson Blog- Google Sheets

DFI Week 4 REflections

Week 4 DFI Reflections

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

I learnt a few more ways to create things to display data on google sheets. I have used these before in a variety of forms from Athletics day, collecting date from google forms amongst other things. Lots of handy tools to give you some fast short cuts. Some great ideas to use google form from surveying community to collecting students responses in an assessment eg spelling test.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Similar to above. I learnt a few more ways to create things to display data on google sheets. I have used these before in a variety of forms from Athletics day, collecting date from google forms amongst other things. Lots of handy tools to give you some fast short cuts. Some great ideas to use google form from surveying community to collecting students responses in an assessment eg spelling test. Using google maps will help me with running sports events and displaying courses eg triathlon map.

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners, how could they use

As in the past with my learners students can create forms for surveying, create their own sheet for statistical purposes creating links to other learning areas. Google Maps can connect learners to the world and some of their experiences. Quite hard to use.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

The knowledge that I use

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