Digital Fluency Intensive Session 4

Week 4
I am getting into the swing of Friday mornings out to Panmure after a busy week of work. It's a dichotomy between enjoying the time to sit and learn and getting my head around leaving school on a Thursday afternoon for the week. The sessions are very beneficial. Heightened stress levels to keep up and get the most out of it, but a good focus and a buzz when 'I'm getting it!'.

New ideas from the sharing session we will use or consider. 
Bubble o meter - Bouncy balls app for the TV. Class noise levels are recognized and the image changes or words come up on the TV to quiet students down. Could be something we use in testing next term when we want them to be creating rather than doing 'silent work'.
Using Toothpicks x25 and marshmallows x20 to create the tallest structure possible.  Put it into the Create Taskboard.  - geometry 3D shapes revision.
Google Earth for exploration or countries and to use Longitude and Latitude coordinates.
Have a Padlet or drawing/doc that kids could enter their book review or student chosen text onto.
Hei hei - Kea Kids News on this channel - Look at this to see how to use in class.

Connecting with Manaiakalani Pedagogy and Kaupapa 
Connected Learners: SHARE Tohatoha

This image cool for kids to create something similar around
how they think they share. 

Understand sharing is not about digital or blogging, but has been around forever and includes everything we share - food, information, stories, good and bad times, emotions.

2005 watershed year because of social media starting up so people can share their lives. Youtube was born. This was a hook Manaiakalani saw they could use and found for some students the share is the hook while for others the create is the hook - both engagement factors. I see this in our students as well. Some really love the blogging process while others love the making process. 

Key is the purpose - global audience. "Any place can reach any place." 

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BLOGGER: this is the main space for our young people to share with the world. there are a number of important reasons for this that we/I need to remember. 

A space to teach students how to be and behave when online. 

Only author of blog not owner. Taking out on 'super highway' with checks in place - Hapara, teacher email connected, names on blogs. Google connection so seen earlier in search's. And so on. 

For myself I need to use my own Blog more as a teacher on a PD level as well as with the students. I feel we need to set it as a task that is completed. Some of our students have many drafts sitting unfinished. We also need to programme commenting in more as we haven't done this as much this year as we have not been part of Tuhi mai Tuhi atu. We need our students to comment on each others work so they are reading and listening to each others work more and connecting with each other on a learning discussion level.  Learning how to finish!! An important skill to learn as need it as an adult!! 

Share to start new learning also important - share to get feedback and feedforward so learning continues. Often can be in a new direction. 

Multi Modal Learning

Creating Sites 

Engaging students is the hook.  Class sites need to be engaging - a window to who we are and who our students are. A site they want to enter every time. An exciting space. We need to revisit our site with this in mind. A digital space that is leading our students into learning. 

Engaging learners so achievement accelerates.  Once we have behaviourally engaged students we get them cognitively engaged. Multiple ways of learning (UDL) in our students so the content we deliver needs to be provided in different ways so we engage everyone. Multi Modal Learning does this, like the task boards we have done in Te Waka Ako. 

When creating these they are for students that are reading to learn not learning to read. One main text with multi text database alongside - supporting text, scaffolded text. 

The example I created was around Rugby as we are heading in to a season of Rugby World Cup Mania and the level of student I have will be engaged in this topic. 

LINK

A great session that will be very beneficial in setting up Literacy programmes. 

Digital Fluency Intensive Session 3

Session 3 begins with some good ideas and tips from the wider group: 
Using Hangouts with students talking about favourite places. Groups of 3 students, each in a different part of the building.
Voice typing needs to be near wifi points. Do with students in Writing this coming week.
Google translate is useful if download app and hold phone over phrases and short paragraphs.  It will translate into English.

GOOGLE EARTH
Can be used on Chromebooks as doesn't need downloading.
Use the peg man to drop into a location and look around. Create a Slideshow of instructions about how to get into Google Earth and to a specific location. Use as a teaching tool and rewindable learning and in Writing.  Grab photos from around the world for Creative Writing
Moment in time writing - what see, smell, hear, etc or narrative writing.
VOYAGER - click into a topic, cultures or environments and much more. Each have texts for learners to connect to. Could be Reading tasks then Writing tasks.

GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE - timelapse function shows the Earth changing over last 35 years. Use for Inquiry discussions around impact on Earth and peoples.

Manaakalani Create - Hanga 
Using the Hook as symbolism for hooking the learner in. Engagement of students or learners.
Creativity is so important. All subjects have the opportunity for students to be creative in.
Hanga is a doing word - think the whole body use.
Creativity spans all ways and areas - it is not about the digital
                                                      learning only.  Most humans create, do, explore something to be able to learn or write or speak.

 ?  What create is in the lesson or learning if kids are disengaged?                                                               Why are they disengaged? How do we empower them? Have we left the create out?   
   Do we need to look at how many times we 'do stuff' first, then write or read or learn information.

Our students ski trip reflections are a case in point for us. The experience meant the writing and reflecting was so rich and so personal.

We are looking at creating a task board around Creating - 9 tasks to complete and then document in some way. Maybe 50 words or 100 words and video or images.

Youtube
We don't t have youtube channels at school as can't moderate comments, don't have visibility when on youtube. Keeps self and learners safe. BUT great for making Youtube Playlists. Don't send learners to youtube, upload onto syndicate site instead.

Google Slides to create Animations
Four of us created a collaborative animation with a generic plane across multiple devices and backdrops. Timing the start/finish of the play was by hand in this instance.
Playing with animation was satisfying and sooooo time consuming.

Digital Fluency Intensive Session 2

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Google Keep: improving my workflow and confidence

Google Keep is for any notes, thoughts, activities needed in life! In-depth note taking site.  Used best when used with phone - get most out of it. Also useful when shared with other people. Going through the features of this app was great for continued use. 

Connecting with Manaiakalani: new learning
Slides
AKO - Learn 
"Access and engage with existing knowledge" in a digital learning environment.
Important to understand this word - overarching. 
Move from the thought being about the device back to the thinking about the learning. 
Digital systems and uses need to be laid down and sorted so focus can be on teaching and learning. They need to be laid side by side as a railway line is. 

RATE acronym = 
Recognise (what is working, what we need)
Amplify (take effective practise and share wider and louder - digital go wider and further) 
Turbocharge (doing stuff could never do before - teaching on line to others parts of country)
Effective Practise (all the above improving this) NZ Curriculum Doc is this. Contextualising this to local communities makes it effective for our school. 

Questioning of self for our learners. 

Stonefields School image created to
contextualise their school learning

What does Waikowhai School do? Can we answer the question .... What does LEARN look like in our school? OR
What learning processes do we use or have?
     to have effective teaching and accelerated learning.

Adding Bloom's to Samr thinking. 

SAMR learning - moving class into digital world often substituting from book to device - not all wrong as don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water, but accelerating is possible because of devices.
Can we add SOLO to SAMR and BLOOMS?

An important statement that I need to focus on more - understand kids can go back into previous teaching so they can learn at their speed.
Teaching them to understand rewindable learning and use it more. Really important and something we can look at in our Syndicate as need to record our teaching more so is available for them to return to. .

Tools: in work and personal life

Going through the following tools was great and even better that the rewindable learning is in the agenda as many I will need to return to to be able to remember and use! I know I don't have to get everything straight away, but my old schooling expects me to!
The following are some of the tips and learning I will use.
Email Tidy Up
Scheduling when sending emails good for if working at night
Avoid translating emails to send - not correct. BUT receiving can be very good.
Calendar
Switching between calendars or hiding them so calendar not cluttered.
Using letter short cuts to move between parts in Calendar =  D day W week M month Y year N next screen P previous screen
Hangouts:
Start in Calendar. Set up event, add person on side. Check times and send. They accept, or not!
One Tab:
Collection of tabs which could be organised.
Shut down computer:
Restart every 24hours.  Clean my Mac - app. Cleans out rubbish every 24hours or when shut down.

Creative Task: Quick Time Recording 

The task we were given was on the slides in this link. The speed of instructions I find is fast and processing what is said, confusing and stressful. (Change my mindset needed!) It wasn't until later that I realised I could read it all to check all the steps were covered along the way. In this instance we did the task but the microphone was not enabled on Quicktime so there is no sound. 

 

SLIDE SHOW OF INSTRUCTIONS