Digital Fluency Day 8 - Computational Thinking

WELCOME to our FINAL week of DFI

Today we have explored more of the Digital Technology/ Hangarau Matihiko Curriculum. I am passionate about learning and teaching students to be innovative creators of digital technology rather than users, so this has been a double BONUS for me today. 

One key resource that I found in the slide that Kerry created for us was the Progression Outcomes - decoded for learners. This is an extremely helpful document to be able to translate the language of programming to our students. I am looking forward to spending more time looking into this more. 

Progression Outcomes – decoded for learners

Manaiakalani Class on Air

I love seeing how teachers like Danni Stone create powerful lessons that combine programming in Scratch with other core curriculum areas, like transformation geometry, in this case.

 Definitely keeping this here for future use. 

AND FINALLY ....

Having a go at using the pen add on in Scratch was fun today. Watch my video as I explain a little bit more about what I have learnt and created today.

Reflecting with a Screencastify video

Digital Fluency Day 7 - Devices!

I have been loving this session about Devices today. Our hands-on learning about the Chromebook keypad functions, shortcuts and so much more has been very beneficial. I know I get asked a lot of these questions daily and I feel more equipped now to be able to empower my students to succeed. 

Adding my slide here from some of the work I have done today. 

 

Having a  go with Explain Everthing. 

It has been a long time since I have used iPads in my classroom as the majority of students use Chromebooks in our year 7 & 8 classroom. Bring on a new challenge for the day. As I continued to experiment with the various tools like the DRAW TOOL, I started having fun and I could see some students in my class enjoying this app! I especially liked the INSERT NEW tool. I felt my students would be engaged in creating presentations like this while being able to include images and gifs. I have a few iPads in my classroom ... So it might be time to bring these out and have go with my class. 

My Explain Everything video

Thinking about REWINDABLE LEARNING 🧐

"Have a think now about the idea of rewindable learning
Ie capturing the teaching, capturing the learning
Enabling young people to revisit it over and over again

Manaiakalani "

Dorothy encouraged us to think about rewindable learning today. This is definitely been a key area of learning for me throughout the DFI sessions each week. I know I am thinking about each lesson I plan now, in a completely different way. I have learnt to become more confident with teaching using Screencastify. Even if it is only a short clip to enable a student to revisit an instruction of the task. 

Here is my example...

Today our create challenge was to Create or repurpose a Cybersmart lesson using EE covering one of the Cybersmart concepts for your learners.

Following on from our amazing learning with the Digital Dig today I repurposed the Digital Dig slide by BoI College by Kerry Boyde -Preece.

https://cybersmart.manaiakalani.org/being-cybersmart/smart-learners/digital-dig

Digital Fluency Intensive Day 2

What a great start to the second session of our Digital Fluency Intensive with Manaiakalani. Today I have increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy by learning more about the RAFE model as we focused on the AKO (Learn) aspect of the "Learn, Create, Share" pedagogy.  This learning has reinforced our prior learning earlier this week with Meryn our Manaiakalani Facilitator in school.  The key message that we are already doing incredible work as teachers and all the amazing work we are already doing already with effective teaching practises. 

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

I am feeling so much more confident with using Google Meet after todays sessions. Our challenge to reflect on a blog and record our Google Meet with a peer, was a perfect activity. After a few technical hiccups, we got there in the end. Thank you Louise for the amazing korero.  Here is our video, my first time using Google Meet to host a meeting and record or discussion.

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

What has impacted me today is the amazing blog by Mau, that I viewed for task. I noticed how she explained her learning so explicitly. This has really made me think about the purpose of my student's blogs or sites.  So I could use blogs like Mau's to show my students what other year 8 students are achieving with their blogs.

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

On top today is the labels in Gmail. I have a camp coming this will be so handy for keeping all our camp emails in one place. I can see I will be using these labels more often to create a flow within my Gmail accounts.