DFI - External Recognition - Week 9

It has been a great experience collaborating and participating in such an awesome digital programme. Throughout the nine weeks of my DFI course, I have learnt so many different digital skills that has contributed to my teaching practice and has allowed me to use what I've learnt to great use with my students. It was also great to see the benefits of being part of such a diverse and inclusive community like Manaiakalani. I've enjoyed learning about the kaupapa and where manaiakalani originated. I have learnt so many new digital skills that has allowed me to become more creative and practical with my teaching. I have noticed changes in the way students react to learning content which keeps them motivated and excited to learn. I am looking forward to all the possibilities and have high expectations of my online teaching in the future. 

DFI week 8 - Conceptual Thinking

 

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

Empowerment - It was interesting listening to Vicki talk about the challenges that some of our whanau face on an everyday life with financial support. We as teachers are able to empower our whanau and student through learning. I really like how Vicki spoke about how knowledge is power and that being a part of manaiakalni enables everyone to learn together.

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

It was interesting learning about the different uses of coding programmes such as scratch and sheets.

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

• Children these days are very much tech savvy. They are exposed to devices at such young ages that allow them to experiment with games and videos. Gaming for learning is awesome I absolutely loved exploring all the different coding and gaming platforms today such as Minecraft, Scratch, Hour of code, and the discovery series that code.org supplies. I know Minecraft will be a hit in my class.

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

DFI Week 6 - Enabling Sites

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

I like how this Kaupapa allows us to see the importance of staying connected with learners, educators and families. Learning is much different to how it might been 20 years ago. technology has allowed us to keep connected much more efficiently and effectively. 

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

Making my class site learner friendly, interactive and reflective of the evolving use of ICT tools and learning platforms in the 21st century.

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

Being connected has become of much use in this day in age. Covid-19 has required us to keep our distance but having programmes and technology like this allows us to keep connected and learn from home. Students are definitely becoming more familiar with this.

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

My class site will always be a work in progress and that is okay. Exploring other class sites will help me with content and relevancy.

DFI Week 7 - Devices

 

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

“Ubiquitous Learning” where students are able to learn anytime, anywhere and anyplace. 

- Summer learning journey is a holiday programme that promotes learning throughout the school holidays.

I really like the concept of rewindable learning - Capturing the learning and providing teachers the  opportunities to make the learning more accessible for students, whanau and communities.

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

Hapara hot tips have been awesome, it has helped me understand how to use the Hapara  dashboard and workspace to manage my learners google drives. and learning content. I have also enjoyed learning how to create buttons and banners to help make my site look more interactive. I have also made the decision to create a site for my teacher registration.

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

Screen castify is a great way for for learners to present their work. This is also a great tool to support oral language.

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

Week 5 DFI - Collaborating - Slides

 

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

Today we focused on the kaupapa of visible teaching and learning through a "Google Site" having a class site makes the learning opportunities endless and visible to learners anytime, anywhere. 

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

It was really interesting exploring the concept of having a multimodal site. It took me some time to get my head around it, however I did see how it reflects a better learning experience for learners by giving them more options in their choice of resources to support their learning.

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

I've learnt that there are many creative ways of creating content for my students that will help hook them in to the learning. Being a multimodal learner myself allows my students to do some of their own creative creating.

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

It is always useful knowing how to use sites and its multimodal functions. I definitely see myself using this for personal use.

DFI Reflection week 3 - Media

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

I really enjoyed learning more about google slides as it's a programme that I use on the daily. I like that there are features that help make your presentations exciting and fun to slide through. Dave taught me how to use extensions such as 'Slide Carnival' and ' Slide Mania' to find various amounts of themes. It was fun using google draw also and how students can create their own animations. I think that I am a very creative person and I am finding that these types of online programmes help express the learning way more effectively.

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

Creativity is definitely not a talent but something everyone has. It is important that we teachers are able to model this through the way we plan and display our teaching. When we are able to be creative with our teaching, students become creative with their learning and have many ways of looking at things.

DFI Reflection Week 2 - Workflow

 

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? What does the Learn look like at YOUR school? 
  

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

Keep App - The advantage of using this app is being able to use it on the run by downloading the app to your phone. I also like how it interlinks with google docs. I was quite intrigued on how easy it is to pull text from an image which is something I could have found very helpful during university. I'm just glad that I can use it as a Teacher.

Organising my Gmail

- Undo send

- Setting up signatures

- out of office

- Adding a background

- Scheduled emails

Calendar

- Useful to use google calendar

- Reminders

Taming my tabs

- bookmarks helps finds our fav tabs

- grouping tabs

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

It is a great reminder of how important it is to have a well organised workspace as it allows for students to locate things much easier. When student work is managed well, this will reflect on the quality of what they have produce.

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

I have never really used Google calendar before but I do see the benefits of it and how it can be applied to not only my professional life, but my personal life as well. I really like how these apps help manage your work life so that you are able to maybe have more time for family and friends.