Devices

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

A gem statement   Make kindness go viral
                               behaviour thinking

I enjoyed Fiona's talk on being cybersmart in a digital world and could relate to it as I have been engaging in areas of it during the lockdown period with working online and engagement with children and whanau. In my home environment online distance learning, embedding, blogging and google hangouts is happening each school day with my own children's learning.
The other understandings I got out of today's kaupapa and pedagogy of Manaiakalani are -

• Empowering learners to be positive.
• When blogging make it clear for children to use nice, positive words.
• Cybersmart is a whole school focus, targeted for specific levels throughout the school.
• Connecting, supporting and empowering students in order to confidently use devices.
• Devices make it possible so kids can manage the digital technology themselves away from school as well.
• Whenever and where ever we share online it's personal.
• What elevates positive actions. 
• Show it in a visual form what image, text, words show a positive element. Show it around your class.
• Having a big picture of children's tech journey is important as they progress from juniors to seniors and beyond.
• For our learners a blog piece should be a piece to be proud of. It must reflect positive comments from peers and whanau. Involving whanau makes them aware of the whole cybersmart experience.

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

• An insight into how Hapara Teacher Dashboard operates.
• Digital dig chromebook use with shortcuts.
• Using the whiteboard app as a tool for juniors.
• The beginnings of screencastify.

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

• Whiteboard as a tool for my junior learners.
• Chromebook use with shortcuts ie: control key.
• Tips for a successful google class hangout. 

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

• Video app and uploading a video to a learning site.
• Inserting a google slide onto a learning site. 
• Tips for a successful google class hangout.

Enabling Access Sites

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

• Being connected is what it's all about!
• Learning is shared visibly.
• Making sure all are reached.
• It's a human experience of sharing and connecting
• Being connected forms a community act of sharing.
• Sharing creates connecting.

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

• Photos are a great hook for learners on your class site.
• Record myself giving instructions on one of my slides or do a video so the children can see me.
• To set up a google meet with my class from their bubbles.
• I made a 10 deck slide for my class site based on a book theme that had pics, moving images and a story audio. This covered a range of curriculum areas for their learning.

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

The ten deck slide and a having a google meet.

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

Today's powerful word used by Dorothy was visible''.

∙Technology through class sites makes our teaching and learning visible - this is the whole kaupapa.

∙Having a class site with visible links the children can see and participate in the learning.

∙Making it visible is important not only to the learner but also whanau and teacher.

∙Keeping the learning journey visible to the learner is a powerful tech tool it is never invisible.

∙Technology has made learning visible to students. 

∙Students have the ability to read the teachers mind leading to success.

∙WALT's have opened the learning journey engaging the learner with the child at the centre.

∙Manaiakalani has gifted the teachers and children the learning process through class sites.

∙There is a real audience and purpose to inform others and create points of view.

I enjoyed Kerry's presentation on the window dressing clip from Mary Queen of Shops. It was very interesting and a great way of making us reflect as teachers on not over doing or under doing our tech work. Also I guess creating steps that are easy to access.

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

Unfortunately I found today's session quite fast paced and I am finding this online learning quite daunting at times. I missed a couple of steps to begin the part of making a google site from scratch just by being on a previous link in Gareth's section.  Became a little better with the second part of group work with creating the beginnings of a second site.  However that too became challenging to follow so I made the decision for my own sanity to leave the hangout an hour earlier to finishing:(

This week coming I would like to revise my notes and give the create a new site a third go. Perhaps may need a google hang out time with Cheryl in order for her to answer my 'troubleshooting' 

questions.

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

Another useful reading site called Epic readers that I signed up too which looks like a great reading tool for myself and my learners to use. 

The journal site that shows teacher notes for the new Junior Journal readers.

Viewing the beginnings and workings of making a future reading group site.