DFI 9 Revision

 Revision

Ubiquitous Learning

Learner at the Centre of all that we do.
Ability to learn online without  teacher.

Classroom programme carries on without us because of Digital Fluency eg on Fridays.

Benefits shown over Summer Holidays with no slippage of Reading and Writing.

Rewindable Learning.

During Lockdown -

I was proud of getting out of my very private comfort zone and putting myself out there on our Class Blog, Google Meets with my class and videoing myself for our Class Site. I learnt how to do so many techie things on the run as I needed them to support my class with their Distance Learning. 

I regret being available to my students and parents 24/7 - I was being contacted from 6am to 10pm the boundaries of a school day certainly grew! If there is a next time I will use the technology to allow my students to learn anytime, anywhere, any place without me having to be physically available during all those times.

The thing I'm taking forward is continuing to use my Class Site on a daily basis - to frontload my students, to inform my parents and to stay connected with them, to provide rewindable learning for my students, and as a place to share our learning journey. I have found since using our site I am better organised and planned with easy links to other facets of Google and have certainly reduced the need for copious amounts of paper.

The DFI experience has certainly made me a more Digitally Fluent teacher, professional and individual. It has given me the confidence to try new things, to experiment with new ways of doing things and to communicate and share with others that I need to.

DFI 8 Computational Thinking

 Computational Thinking

During our WWW this morning there was a great explanation of how the principles of Manaiakalani sit under the framework of UDL. Great to be able to have these Professional discusssions with a group of colleagues to clarify our thinking and to help each other out - made me realise the power of togetherness even though we only see each other remotely.

Empowered - Dorothy

Especially evident during Lockdown.

Nigel Latta - Technology and the link to empowerment.

Computational Thinking - Kerry

The new Digital Technologies Curriculum

Digital Fluency vs Digital Technologies

Digitally Fluent - Confident in online environment, enabling students to make the most of their time online, find resources and share learning online, comfortable delivering in 1-1 learning environment. Synthesis, validate information online. 

Digital Technologies - 2 Aspects

Computational thinking.

Design and develop Digital Outcomes.

Computational Thinking                                                   Design and develop Digital Outcomes.

Interesting to understand that the activities for these areas of the curriculum do not all have to be via devices but also using 'unplugged' activities. And in fact many of the activities we already do during our programme come under this umbrella - we just hadn't considered them in this way! It certainly isn't as scarey as first thought.

The difference between Computational Thinking and Design and Developing Digital Outcomes and examples of activities for each one.

Future of Technology - Maria

Ethic and Moral Questions - I had a go at the Moral Machine - definitely very thought provoking and Maria raised some very important questions about the programming of driverless vehicles and decisions made when they counter certain dilemnas.

Coding

I am familiar with Scratch Junior after having been introduced to it by my Facilitator and have used this with my class on their Ipads. They are very quick to pick it up and run with it! Although not always attentive to the directions of the task we give them! It would be great to introduce something new - maybe Light Bot? Great to actually view Minecraft. I have heard so much about it and seen my own children use it at home but haven't actually had a go myself. Can definitely see the potential for using it in their learning it is so appealing and engaging but also addictive!

Sat in on Rachel's session of Scratch with Venessa. Great to see the progression from Scratch Junior. 

Set up an account for Scratch and had a go but definitely a lot more difficult than Scratch Junior!

I can see why Scratch Junior was created and the most appropriate App for my Year 2s. Will continue using this with my class and upskilling myself there before attempting Scratch again!

I have managed to enrol for the exam! (An exam in itself!!) Time to reflect on what I know and find useful in my Junior class, my Professional life and in my personal life!

DFI 7 Devices

 Devices

Being Cybersmart - Fiona Grant

Digital Citizenship - Empowering people, Keeping our students secure AND smart.

Modelling the positive - more about the 'cans' than the 'can'ts'. Make the positive the Norm.

Students being able to identify what's right and what's acceptable.

Remembering to set up the class culture for this at the beginning of each new year.

Hapara Teacher Dashboard - Lenva/Dorothy

- Visibility of what the students are doing / about the learning not the technology.

Chrome Books - Dorothy

1:1 Devices Equity in learning.

Control / shows you all the shortcuts!!

IPads - Nicola

Stylus a must.

Shared folder in the Drive to share projects for stidents on IPads.

Having a go on the Ipad was great and I was able to help my colleagues some - but definitely missed not having the children from my class there to help me with the next steps when needed!!

A link to my IPad Explain Everything Cybersmart Lesson

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1LVY_jNlcnjhgbxOnx7Uknz0iLRXzlN/view?usp=sharing

Great idea to make projects on the IPad for learning - but still very difficult to do new learning on the IPad and remembering the content to be added!!

Bloglist Sidebar Gadgets - Kelsey ***Rewind the learning on this***

Time, time, time, is needed to be an expert on a new device!

Great to learn alongside the class from the beginning of the year - hard to flick between the 3 devices for short periods of time without a real purpose.

DFI 6 Enabling Access

 Google Sites - Enabling Access

Connected - Dorothy Burt

Importance of connecting and checking Well Being for Effective Teaching and Accelerated Learning.

 AKO - Learn Create Share (We know how to do this).

Blog Posts

Twitter

Toolkits Online - I enjoyed and found the one I did with Latham last night about Writing and Avatars very practical and definitely will have a go at it next week once I'm back in my class!

Leading Learning using Google Sites - Why?? - Maria

Visible Learning - Accelerating the learning - Role of the teacher - Rewindable Learning

Acceleration -

Everything needs to be on the site.

Visual Appeal. 

Evaluate Sites based on Visual Appeal (Shop Window) and Site Functionality (Easy to find stuff).

It was great to be able to view a number of Junior School sites and the different ways teachers organise them. I have been able to take lots away from them and to think about how I want and don't want our site to look like. One thing I have become aware of is that since our Lockdown days our site has become a little impersonal so my goals for today were to input more of Room 4 into it! I started with a photo and blurb about myself and have been adding visuals and commentary about and for the students.

Some great advice from my group about setting up the site that I will take on board also - use of audio on the site to complement the written messages, Dropdowns of the weeks to fall from recent to oldest (rather than oldest to recent as I currently have it!).

https://sites.google.com/makauri.school.nz/room42020/home

A great day of reflecting and learning and seeing things through fresh eyes!

Blog Spam

***Rewind the information on this ***

DFI 5 Collaborate - Sites

 Collaborate - Sites

Connecting with Manaiakalani (Dorothy Burt) - Making teaching and learning visible for teachers, colleagues, learners and whanau.

Fail and Success - due to knowing what teacher wants? Can read their mind? Cultural Capital

Visibility facing the learner AND the teacher facing visibility - Google Class Sites - everything available to everyone. 

Blogs - students, teachers, principals make learning visible through this format.

Hapara - Parent Portal

Multi Modal Sites (Kerry)

Class site delivering communication from one person to another in many forms so that there is a form that suits everyone. Different people prefer different modes. Inclusive for everyone - differentiated so students can work at their own pace at different times.

Engagement - Personalising - Acceleration of student outcomes - Empowerment and confidence.

Class Site - Home Page needs to be WOW!! Multi textural design - rich resources. Behavioural and cognitive engagement. Choice and Collaboration are important.

T shaped learning. Wide and Deep literacy. Eyes on text. 

Hapara Hot Tips - Dorothy

Sharing Tab - Filing work in correct folders or no work? Children don't make their own folders - Admin for our Hapara has to do this.

Multimodal Learning Sites

I have a current Class Site https://sites.google.com/makauri.school.nz/room42020/home and I love using it within the classroom. It has been continually evolving throughout the year as I have learnt how to do new things and how I want to organise information.

Vicki - Folder with all our content for our site with right settings. 2020 Folder.

***Buttons*** have a go at making some.

 

 Use Google Drawing to make exciting buttons/themes.

***I had a go at making a Button for my current site but was unable to add a link  - will experiment some more with this, as this would be a great addition to what I already have. ***

Multi Text Data Base - Dorothy

T Shaped Literacy. Woolf fisher Research Centre.

Context - then identify the main text for children to read (Deep) then go wide to supply a range of texts for engagement - need a variety of texts. Complimentary Text, Main Text, Supporting/Scaffolding Texts, then finding a text that is harder and is going to cognitively stretch and challenge the students. When do students choose the text?

Collaboration of a Database.

Nicola and Super Heroes

Jamboard - A white board for brainstorming.

The Super Hero Site I have started to create - 

https://sites.google.com/makauri.school.nz/super-heroes/home

Today was an awesome session!! Creating was fun and I can see how I will continue to use Google Sites as my classroom Web Page. Learning a few more tips and tricks was great and I will definitely do a Super Hero Unit with my class! Yay!!

What the Duck?

 The Flying Duck

A Slide Show with Audio ...

DFI 4 Dealing with Data

Data

In our Bubble Group we talked about - "Record to Slides" (Extension) App - Voice Recorder to put audio onto slides I will have another look at this as an alternative to what we did last week as Google slides and audio is definitely something very useful in the classroom.

Hapara Hot Tips - Remember to go to 'More" to check out Blog Posts. 'Comments' section - Model positive, thoughtful comments especially those with few or no comments. SPAM - definitely don't click on it!! ***Remember to talk to Cheryl about Hapara and get it pinned.***

Connecting with Manaiakalani - Share Blogger as a Medium to Share. Sharing to Learn.

Google Forms - Vicki - Title, Put into 2020 file, Duplicate Qn. Go to settings to change who, what, where. This is something I'll use so will go back and revisit - didn't get my Fairy Tales Google Form completed today, unfortunately.

Google Maps and My Maps - Maria - I'm not sure how and where I would use this at this stage. Will look some more into it and see how it could fit in with me at school, professionally and my personal life.

I had a go at making my own Road Trip including photos of the destinations (unfortunately the photos haven't shown up in the screenshot!) - I can see how I would use this basic function of My Maps personally and with my class.

Google Sheets - Vicki - Spreadsheet on Google Drive - Hand used for grabbing rows or columns. Resize rows. It can do the maths for you (Functions tool). Filtering - sort by gender etc. Explore tool on sheets - can ask qn about data or make charts. Conditional Formatting - set parameters and change the way it looks, can create rules.

I have used Google Spreadsheets to input data in the past - but have never created my own. I have definitely learnt more about many of the functions they can do - Wow!! 

I had a go at finding the averages on the data we were given - I was able to find an individual's average and then use that to find the group average, I could rank them lowest to highest and highest to lowest!!! But my Explore tool would not pop up the graphs for me to use. *** See Cheryl*** An awesome tool to organise data that after practise to become faster will be  great tool for our Data Analysis.

Room 4's Blog Posts for 2020 (so far) I was able to average the number of blogs so far for 2020 and then use the Explore function to get charts that I could put on my Sheet. The average number of blogs was 4.4 a month. I was then able to insert my charts to Google Drawing. By having it in Google Drawing if there are any changes made - these will be recorded also.

Great to see how all the facets of Google can be linked and used together!!!

Blog Comments

Insert hyperlinks to link back to learning or other people's blog posts. 

I have uaed hyperlinks before in my blogs when I was unable to get an image on my page. Great idea to use regularly!!

Installing in the students to make blog comments that are Positive, Thoughtful and Helpful is very important - also helps them to be less boring and robotic.

I am now finding (and using everwhere!) the benefit of using the Screenshot function on my laptop!      I find Visual Images great to help me remember and access information learnt!! A great tool for rewinding the learning!