Digital Fluency Intensive Session 9 TEST TIME!!

Great to hear how people are using different google sites and apps in their classrooms. Many cool ideas that we could put into play in our syndicate.

Ubiquitous

Link to Slideshow

Anytime - personal lives can be interwoven with our learning and working lives.
Anywhere - can be offline as well as online so beneficial to work at the optimum times for ourselves.
Any pace - rewindable learning. An area I need to work on for the students in our ILE. I have used this over the last 8 weeks of the course and know that many things I have forgotten already
                                                                                                        because I haven't used them, so
                                                                                                        giving this to students is important.

This is invaluable for students who don't have the conversation benefits of middle class children - 30 million words.

Summer Learning Journey. 
Will talk to students that over the summer break they only need to go online 3 times a week to read, do the activity related, blog it and comment on someone else's blog. Will make Friday lessons where we will pair up students each week and they need to complete a reading task, do an activity, blog it by themselves without being checked, then comment on each others blog post with a full comment and then reply to those comments.   

Google Test 
Hardcore. Didn't pass. Too slow even though I felt I was working 'fast for me'. Frustrating to not quite get there. Maybe I will sit again. Frustrating because I know I have learnt a heap about navigation of the different google sites and systems over the nine weeks in the course. and feel much more confident to use them, but know that I read slow and work slow, so maybe doing it again when I know what is coming up will mean success.

Moving forward I'm not 100% sure how I will use this blog as I also need to enter posts into our school Interlead Appraisal Connector Site. Fitting everything in can be a challenge. However with a sabbatical next year it may be good to connect to others through a blog about the areas of research I will be looking into.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                 

Digital Fluency Intensive Session 8

Nearing the end of the course it is interesting to look back and see what I have used and learnt over the last 7 sessions. Over this week we implemented a site I created out of learning from the course. This site had students Creating Stuff with all of our 75 Senior Syndicate students, over 4 2 hour morning sessions. Students had 9 creative tasks to make and then record in some way. From there they completed a slide on a slideshow that was connected and had some correlating work and reflection space. It has been very interesting watching the differing responses to this change in literacy delivery. Many students were very enthusiastic and engagement was high in the creative part of the activity. Completing the written element was more challenging, not in content, but because students wanted to then move on to the next creating activity.
link: https://sites.google.com/waikowhai.school.nz/creating-stuff/home 

In today's session revisiting cybersmart was really valuable and has made us consider how we set the year up in 2020.

Cybersmart 
Never having bad behaviour on a screen - bullying reinforces the bad behaviour, even if the message afterwards is positive and 'don't do this'.  Positive framing gives students what to do, not what not to do. This came up in our film making last year where one was created with a student being bullied. We felt uncomfortable with this as the message at the end was not very strong, but didn't link it to this idea.  An interesting concept around examples of good behaviour being enacted by the targeted child and then watched for 7 days changing severe bad behaviour.

Safety online
It is important to learn the language of positive messaging.
Cybersmart has a positive angle which was developed by teachers for teachers over many years to keep our students safe. Now this terminology is in a Cybersmart Week - first week of Term 4 instead of Net safe, which has negative angle or negative framing of what students are doing online.
Manaiakalani are also looking at Smart Wellbeing or Hauora to either add to or reconfigure categories so this sits inside one of the other categories. This is interesting as our whole school focus this year has been Hauora-Wellbeing and it is popping up more and more.
Overall, I feel we need to build in Cybersmart lessons with more consistency next year. We do these but need a more focused plan to cover the elements we want the kids to be learning.
Smart Learners - Kawa of Care - could be another treaty they sign for our wall and then make videos of what each element looks like in a positive framing. Make it fun, but the positive way to do stuff not the negative way to do things.
Smart Footprint -
Smart Relationships -
For our creative task we used screencastify to investigate some of these categories and elements withing that we could use in our schools. I completed a couple below.
Smart Media



Smart Relationships - Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu



Hapara Dashboard
This was an interesting session of revisiting Hapara and the many elements or functions within it. Although I use the basics regularly I need to relook at all the features and possibilities again and give myself reminders to check in to different parts or use them with the students. Things like the
commenting tab - check daily to see if any anonymous comments left as these are in red.
Digital Devices 
Teachers need to use digital devices that they have in classes. Dis-empowering if we don't know the experience the students are having. This was very evident as I have not really used a chromebook myself even though this is the 3rd year my students have had them!! I was slow and confused! I will spend more time on them in the future. I noticed with the ipad use, although I have used an ipad much more than the chromebook in the past, when it came to a new system I was again slow at navigating it. This was good learning for what we put our students through.

Digital Fluency Intensive Session 7

Session 7 is...
Looking at the Computational Thinking Curriculum and all it entails with Digital Technologies in the future was pretty mind blowing. Looking at the breakthrough technologies scary, exciting, thought provoking. There were so many things touched on and to explore at a later date it was hard to keep up and became overwhelming. (This is how kids must feel sometimes!!) Overall I get that this is the future for our tamariki and even if I don't get it, I need to work out how to feed it in to their learning so will go away and relook at items on different days.
I am putting the links to the slideshows as so many notes on them.
Empowerment.

LINK

"A computer is NOT just a tool" was a change in conversation from what I have heard in the past. The reasons are tenfold but comes down to empowerment that the access of being online gives families and people, and I get that totally. I can also understand how advantaged children with 32million words are
at an advantage when turning 5 as see the impact the lack of conversation has on the students through our school.

Look at Later
Nigel Latta videos are about empowerment in Manaiakalani are attached and will be interesting to watch.
32 million words - researchers - clothes - middle class look up https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/tyc/feb2014/the-word-gap

  On the other side of this access, one of the Discussion points first up, was talking about and considering the access students have to so much online. Looking at ages for social media - especially youtube accounts. In NZ it is 18years as need to be able to stand up in court and answer to the actions they take. Going back to our Year 5/6 classes we will create new work in Cybersmart covering these again and then Blog  about it over the next couple of weeks, then have the students resend their blog link to parents so it is something they see too hopefully. A way of connecting to the community but possibly look at consultation with community in other ways too.

Sort Me 

Digital Technologies Curriculum - Creating with technologies.
Really enjoyed the Sort Me activity that showed algorithm understanding and debugging examples. Will use this template (like picture) in Maths warmups as well. If want it bigger can go to 10 people 5 rows of full 5 squares, then numbering off. Looking at Values and Morals was really interesting and again thought provoking. The programming of self driving cars - biased as have the values of the programmers in them. Who are they? Do we align with their values and morals?   The cars make decisions on what they have been programmed for.  This wasn't even something I had considered.

Our ideas on our values and morals and the values employers want. 

These are notes of things I need to follow up on!!!
Trailblazers Workshop Website things to look at....
Charity to empower children to use technology. Teaches children to innovate.  https://omgtech.co.nz/
Minority Report Author. Phillip K. Dick Wrote science fiction  that has come about.
10 breakthrough technologies - Bill Gates - detail in Trailblazer website
Game Changers Doc - is it bullshit?  sensationalised or factual? Vegan argument.  Netflix
Paint me a picture - makey makey with conductive paint - lesson plan on site.
Scratch - create a teacher page as can enter class - check it out as it is so useful to teach so many parts of computational thinking would good to set up whole school - kids have scratch login.
Hour of Code  also important for teaching Computational thinking.