DFI Week 9

DFI  Week 9

17th September

Mark , Hannah

Ubiquitous

Presentation

The evidence for the power of Ubiquitous learning is most clearly displayed in the Summer Learning Journey reports.

Young people learning over the Summer holidays with no teacher present.

Their Term 1 progress / achievement is carefully matched with a non-blogger - and the infographic displays the clear difference between the groups.

Ubiquitous carries the idea that learning takes place outside of the traditional school/classroom in the digital era.

Summer Learning Journey

Rewindable learning is capturing the teaching, capturing the learning

Enabling young people to revisit it over and over again.

Explore Teacher Tools for rewindable lessons

Very very proud of the energy and motivation to persevere with the Google Certified Educators Level 1 exam today. Though I only got 70%, I am aware it is a snapshot in time.Maybe next time....
My learning and growth has been massive this term, very grateful for the opportunity. Ngā mihi nui.

DFI Day 8

DFI Day 8
10.09.19


Dealing with Data
With Mark and Dorothy

Agenda

Connecting with Manaiakalani- Empowered

Empowered as opposed to agency- agency for many-has other not so positive connotations.

It’s not just a tool, if it’s not transforming lives….is it working?
Enables a level of control in their lives
View- It’s not just a Tool- Nigel Latta


Dorothy shared how whanau in her neighbourhood ( and so many others) are disempowered.

5+ a day makes a difference- conversation that goes back and forwards 5 times a day. Build on that!- especially for our little ones.

Dealing with Data
Google Forms
Chalk ‘n talk

Need to be purposeful and useful
No need for Survey Monkey or costs.

There are three main ways to send a form:
1.Email - Allows your to directly send the form. Add the recipient's address, customise your message and hit send
2.Link - Share via link. Highlight, copy then paste the link in the desired location
3.Embed - Copy and paste the embed code to share via Google site or blog

Tips
A dropdown box or choices make responses more consistent, accurate.
Created my first google form

My Maps
You can turn on map sharing (phone) with a partner, friend. Could do with it with a group of friends, colleagues who are meeting up- can do it for a short term. Good for teenagers. Useful for planning walks and trips when you are away.
Customisable collaborative maps- can import data from a sheet-
Operates on multiple layers
Useful for maths- scale, measurement
We used the info from our Google form, then imported info to our MyMap

Google Sheets
Tips for me to practice and remember:
To freeze the top row, go to View- freeze
Freeze left column- go to view freeze 1 column
To resize columns select, shift click- drag to resize
Added Crop it to remove all of those extra cells
Use the Explore tool will do graphs automatically. Click on the 3 dots of the graph to move it to it’s own sheet. Rename it.
Use the dropdown box on the tab to protect the sheet and who can access it.
Check add ons that are available- QR codes, split names. (1 a day free)
Select rows, columns with a pattern to repeat pattern, click on corner, drag down.
If I get stuck, think… is it data, format, or a shortcut???
Sort highest to lowest Z-A

Tip of the Day: If in doubt, click on the three dots.
You can hide a column by clicking on arrow on tab. Left arrow to return it.
An idea to follow through with is to have a Google form on our learning site. Students can fill it when they have made a comment on a blog.
Your name
Blog you posted on
Post link to that blog
Post onto class site.


Eeeeeeek, have registered for next week’s exam!!!!
Need to brush up ready for Level 1 Google Educator, feel totally unprepared and rather anxious.

DFI Week 7 03/09/19

Media
With Mark and Kent





Agenda

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

Hangout with Dorothy
Connecting with Manaiakalani- Connected

Today in our Hangout with Dorothy we were reminded of how Manaiakalani connects powerful networks of schools and learners with a shared pedagogy and kaupapa language. Clusters of schools showing commitment and strong partnership with consistent pedagogy programme design. Providing that genuine audience, the act of sharing creates connection- a core part of being human. Digital makes possible the impossible.

Important to maintain commenting on blogs, maybe we need to make a targeted commitment from each of our students. Idea from Mel- Blogger of the Week. Or focusing on one studio?


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

Today Kent shared his skills and expertise with a range of digital tools. I found myself taking copious notes for my next steps. I liked the way that he treated each question as if it was worthy with a scaffolded response.


Today I am most proud of:

• Successfully posting a photo with a clickable link (to a recipe) on our Studio blog.
• Successfully making a channel with playlists for school, this will really help to cull my bookmarks as I have a zillion youtube saves in random bookmark folders.
• I am looking forward to curating more playlists which can shared on our site.
• Updating my digital mihi.

A link to my notes and lots more I need to explore.

DFI Day 6 Learning

DFI Day 6

August 27th

Enabling Access- Sites

With Mark and Clarelle

Exploring how to maximise our class/subject sites to maximise

 Visible teaching and learning.

Deep Dive- Sites- is the shop window-appealing? not overwhelming? User friendly- accessible? Can you get to everything in 3 clicks?

After viewing and exploring we rated sites on Engagement and User experience.

I especially loved the use of kids' photos, simplicity with layout, simple pallet of colours. I find some sites simply overwhelming- and that’s looking through an adult lens, can only imagine what it must be like for a child.

Visible Teaching and learning

Significant reason for so many failing is because they were not sure where they were going, like being in a maze. For too long success came to those who could read the teachers’ minds.

Making every part of the learning journey visible not just for students but also for whanau.. We need to have more open conversations.  Remove the surprise element.- accessible, available, advance. Hapara supports the visibility for our students and parents 

( What is the parent portal?) I discovered this is turned off at most schools.

Have a look at Manaiakalani Google Class onAir. Manaiakalani Google Class OnAir

Blogging gives that visibility-sharing their learning journey online.

Wondering- What genuinely needs to be invisible or kept private ????  Private details, health needs, behavioural concerns, some assessment data, 

Leading learning using google sites-  Clarelle

Important to be mindful that it ‘s what will work best for the students.

The site is a tool for leading learners.

Who is the audience?

How are students accessing the site?

What is the theme of the site?

Why are they using the site?

Plan- 

How many pages will you need?

What will be linked off the home page?

What is the layout of each page?

Remember the 3 click rule.

I will definitely use Clarelle’s tips on her presentation- for creating on sheets and embedding timetables.

Ensure that links to the site and access are fool proof, as you lose the interest and connection to families if their first attempt doesn’t work.

What I achieved:- an update to our learning site

Some of my takeaways and to do's I need to remember to use the sites folder in my Drive. Go into incognito and check access for the site. We need to add a link to our Studio blog, the school website to our site. Today I set a goal in the workshop time to explore other sites and to add to our Studio site. My goal is to update with our Kitchen Science Inquiry. Wondering about the benefits of Shared Drive? Mark recommends staying away from Team Drive- we need to chat as a team - do we see the worth? Remember to use: Link to school journals online I always forget to use this.

Day 5 DFI Devices

Devices 20/08/19

with Lenva and Mark

After a really productive day of learning, I spent some time putting together an informative post with embedded links and all sorts of goodies...

I have successfully managed to absolutely wipe my draft completely.

After frantically searching for a way to recover it, I am giving up... and I do not do this lightly. However the effects of the flu and a staff meeting working on data... I am out of energy and motivation.

This is a link to my notes from today

DFI Day 4 Computational Thinking

DFI Day 4 Computational Thinking


13 August 2019

Advice from Mark- take one thing work on it, focus, rather than dabble in lots.
Set a reminder to comment on 2 kids’ blogs every day, I need to discuss this with the Team and we need to commit to this!

Hangout with Dorothy: SHARE





We have been sharing since time began-It’s not just the great things we share, we share our food, our laughter, our failures, our darkest moments. Something we do as humans. We all like to share in different ways.
Post 2005 - whole lot of new sharing platforms emerged which opened up the world- speed and amplification.








Interesting to learn about why Blogger was chosen - for it’s functionality.
I need to look into the gadget for showing blog posts and see if there is a way for us to monitor and track our 90 students.
Cybersmart curriculum- essential to stand beside students learning

Share to FINISH learning, an indicator that I have finished my work. Students continue to learn after they have finished, not just to finish.
Feedback and feed forward- Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful




Computational Thinking with Kawana from OMGTech!
A fun starter to get us up and out of our seats… a sorting algorithm with computational thinking.

We then explored 10 breakthrough technologies- according to Bill Gates,
After viewing driverless cars, planes, Big Dog, Sophia singing with Jimmy Fallon… which lead to moral… ethical… wonderings? Interesting to explore that:

The personal /family values we brainstormed are human-centric

Many of the Employer’s values we brainstormed like- punctuality, effectiveness, safety, efficiency , meeting deadlines - can be replaced by machines, particularly in business.
Of concern- Values of the programmers don’t necessarily match our own
“Pale, male, stale” Only 8% industry female.

 How does that reflect in the outcomes???

Digital Technology Curriculum The new content covers two key areas, computational thinking and designing and developing digital outcomes. It has been designed to be flexible, so it can respond to new developments and technologies as they emerge. 

INQUIRY includes data modelling, spreadsheets, access to online databases, searching, access to virtual labs, online observatories, virtual field trips

COMMUNICATION includes word processing, e-mail, virtual conferences, graphics software, blogging, vlogging, presentations, websites and tutorials

CONSTRUCTION includes robotics, computer-aided design, control systems, programming, electronics, digital manufacturing, game design and sensors.

EXPRESSION includes interactive video, animation software, 3D design, music composition, digital art, digital story telling

The key here is that Digital Technologies encompasses all of the above, but digital fluency stops on the left. An analogy to help you understand could be that the boxes on the left is understanding how to use an Instagram filter, and the boxes on the right is understanding how to make an Instagram filter.

Digital Technologies very useful Glossary link.

Binary Maths activity- try it with the kids- using tokens. Use the worksheet to work out what the binary number is. If the box can be filled you can count it. If it is empty you can not count it. Start with the largest grid you can fill in. Work move from left to right.

Remember to use these resources (open resource)

Other activities

Hour of code Code with Minecraft

Toxic Code

Silent Teacher

Hero Kids has been recommended by Kawana as a fantastic role playing resource for kids

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/106605/Hero-Kids--Fantasy-RPG





I have completed the Self-Review Tool and when I have the time I shall work through the toolkits/ workshops.




A useful resource to grow computational thinking

Me having fun creating a simple maze and some action

Scratch- need to get a teacher account, set up a classroom , sign in for all kids

Tips from Kawana: fun ways to dive into robotics, electronics and code

Scratch Junior - on Ipads

Makey Makey Art and electronics- recipe for conductive paints notes ($12-25 Ali express)

3D pens (filament made from cornstarch) $30 Ali express

Playdough circuits- easy electronics. Go to squishycircuits for details

$8 cardboard robots Stumblebot costs about $8 per student

Another day filled with great learning!

DFI Day 3 
Agenda

Collaborate

with Mark and Danni


Today started with an outline of Create Hanga Hook with Dorothy.
These days we need much more than charisma to engage and hook in our kids.
Create is a doing word- involves multiple senses - the whole body.
The ability to create for most of our learners involves doing.

We want our young people to not just be consumers in the digital world,
but to be creators of content.

A handy reflection for our Team:Have our young people had the opportunity to be creative today? Have I had the opportunity to be creative?

I have thought well today of the importance of the hook- the "window dressing" inspiring kids to go in- explore further. Was most impressed with the Immersion Assemblies and the energy and creativity of the Port England staff to engage and entice students.

Because we know that everyone is different-  choice in how students create is essential. What engages one learner doesn't necessary engage another. I am mindful that Danni's statement about our default is what we like, how we like to learn- rings true!

After viewing loads of multi modal resources, I made notes about the importance of scaffolded opportunites, that the layout shouldn't be too overwhelming, that instructions are clear for students and that choice be implicit in expectations for creating and sharing.

And today we had a chance to Create, my first ever play at creating a Google site. The step by step instructions worked well for this learner and I created a sandpit site for playing and learning in.

We talked about the value of creating sites for reusable themes, topics, learning opportunities -like: Anzac Day, Waitangi Day, favourite book studies.

After some korero about what might be most useful for sharing and rewinding learning, Sharon and I decided we would build a site where we could create and share our learning with our teams and others. It was fun, taking it slowly, practising the small steps and we have a site under construction.

A great day of learning, creating and sharing! 

Nga mihi katoa.

Workflow:  DFI Day 2

Tuesday 30th July

Reflecting on our second day of learning, still working on those neural pathways!

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

We joined a Hangout with Dorothy- with today's focus on Learn-ako- accessing and engaging with existing knowledge in a digital environment.

I really liked the Image of the railway tracks- showing the parallel paths of a community of learners moving to the digital world  and increasing teacher effectiveness and accelerating learning outcomes in this digital environment.

We don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

Maximise digital affordances to promote increased learning outcomes for students.

R Recognise and acknowledge effective practice

A Amplify that effective practice

T Turbocharge is where technology kicks in - opens up the world, doing things that were never there before.
E Effective Practice

Interesting…..What does learn look like for us at Rāwhiti?  What effective programmes cause  learning and increase outcomes?

Rewindable learning- enables greater access for those students who miss instructions, can’t do multiple instruction. If it’s worth learning, it’s worth capturing.

Technology enables removable barriers and greater opportunities for new ways of learning.

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

Today I had the opportunity to play and have a Hangout practice- where we shared a slide of our favourite country and spoke about it, this would be a very cool thing to try with a writing group. There were technical glitches and I definitely needed help, but we got there in the end.

So good to learn more about Google Keep for making lists, reminders, having it open to copy parts of a doc, you can add images, reuse lists, remember to pin, keep open when working in docs, make a list of icons, stickers. Ideas and uses are endless. 

Note to download this onto my phone also- to prompt and remind. Excited to learn that through this app I can take a photo of some text , tap the photo, go to the 3 dots, grab the text and it types it out. 

Also the Layout app for my phone as a good tool for creating photo collages. 

Gmail- need to create a Keep with all of the great shortcuts I have learned today. Taking time to explore the settings was very useful. I learned that you can schedule mail.

Shortcuts I will use are : g and t to go to sent mail, g and s to go to starred mail, d to compose in a new tab, v goes to move to, c to compose, g and d goes to draft.

Learning about the tools to manage my ever increasing tabs was fantastic, I have installed Toby Mini today and when I get some time to have a play and a sort, I will be able to organise connected multiple tabs into  folders. They can then be easily accessed, this will certainly ease workflow, when planning and reporting. Meantime I have also added OneTab to my Chrome extensions, I will see what works best for me.

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

This learning is strengthening my awareness of the power of Rewindable learning- which enables greater access for those students who miss instructions, can’t do multiple instruction. If it’s worth learning, it’s worth capturing. Technology enables removable barriers and greater opportunities for new ways of learning for our kids. 

One thing that I will take away is the power of effective genuine feedback, this was evidenced when we explored the blogs in the Summer Learning Journey slides 

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

So many tips to help me organise and streamline my mail, tabs, documents. Once I sort some strategically chosen Google Keeps I know this will certainly ease the workflow. Already tonight I have sorted and filed my overloaded Gmail inbox. 

As I learn and practise I know that I will gain greater confidence in this ever growing digital world. I certainly know how our learners at school feel, for I too am a learner.

DFI Day 1

Tuesday 23rd July



Phew!!! 
So many new neural pathways being forged. 
Challenging myself fully