DFI : Revision

Kia Ora katoa, 

I can't believe how fast these past weeks have flown by and how much learning I have done in that time. I appreciate having learnt so many new things which smoothed my workflow and also gave me enough practise to master a few skills (like working with Google Forms).

My spreadsheets knowledge is still a bit patchy and that was my downfall in the exam as I needed to Google a few 'how to's to remind myself how to go about completing the task. 

Sadly, I didn't finish the exam but only by one question and I had perhaps 2 on review. 

I loved being a part of the DFI community and having my 'special' day to commit myself to focusing entirely on upskilling and putting those skills to practise. 

Some of the things I could apply straight away in class and some not. Sometimes, it was a bit too much to add more to my repetoire, and those skills are on the back burner for me to review at a later date. 

Although I am leaving Primary Teaching for a while, I hope to keep up with the alumni and the skills as I go into Primary Schools with a new hat on as a Maths Mentor. I'm sure I will be able to use those skills in my new job. I'll be getting an Apple laptop so maybe could go for some Apple certification. 

I'm not too sure what else to say...

I've appreciated hearing the Manaiakalani story and origins. It has put a whole new spin on digital learning and I must admit that when I started teaching at PCS almost 3 years ago, I was a bit anti-students-getting- their-own-Chromebooks at Year 3. I now see how this has empowered some of these students. The DFI would have been awesome to attend as a teacher new to digital learning, although I  had the support of my facilitator. I also feel empowered myself,  as without the internet I would not have been able to access the DFI and the community of learners. Being online and seeing teachers from all around the country has also made me feel more in touch with the teaching community. 

I will keep blogging and I wish everyone well on their journeys and highly recommend the DFI to other teachers! 

DFI 8 - Computational Thinking

Manaaikalani - Empowerment:

Digital access has given students access to learning especially this year - 2020.

We do need to make it appealing as students learning online from home will simply not do the work. Fortnite and Tiktok are our competition - Matt Goodwin

Read more from: Nigel Latta, Matt Goodwin

Money empowers you to make more choices:

$19,000 vs what others earn. Working poor.

Move, housing, remove rubbish, Good Guys - 30% interest, money from benefit, health, 2174 - measles

Low decile - mean average capability of a 3 year old

                     - 32 million words

                     - 1/3 turnover in schools

Digital empowers people to take more control over their lives.

5+ conversations per day are necessary.

$3.50 per week over 3 years for a Chromebook.

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The New Digital Technologies Curriculum

Computational Thinking

Technology Practise, Knowledge, Nature of

Two new areas:Computational Thinking for Digital Technologies - think like a computer scientist
Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes

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DFI Deep Dive - Future of Tech

Just - wow! some things I wasn't aware of that are out there!

Ethics and Morals...

Senarios:- VERY hard to do...!!!

Moral Machine

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Explore option: Kia Takatū 

https://kiatakatu.ac.nz/

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GOOGLE EXAM

Register with Proctor U

Sign up for scheduled time next Friday.

Incognito Window is recommended.

Check your equipment

Install extension

Can't go to specific websites

2nd device to Google things...

Expectations

Photo ID

Testing your equipment.

Reschedule next Friday to take the exam at the time.

Spend 90 seconds on each question.

US$10.00

EXPLORE:

Lightbot - This was good, fun and simple to use

Couldn't do scratch without an i-pad

Minecraft - Couldn't figure this out... Kelsey pointed me in the right direction and I ran out of time!

Kodable - This was quite fun - did the bug one. But again couldn't figure out how ot do it - haha!

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DFI Create had another go at Minecraft coding. It's not as simple as it seems - I am a beginner though!

Discussed process with Bee-Bot

Draw a square on the mat with an apple as a goal.

Get kids to diret each other

Then draw up the directions

Then feed those directions into Bee-Bot

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Blogger Tips

Checklist

On layout add pages and show pages - can add external link.

DFI 7 Devices

 Cybersmart

Learning outcomes can be the same but how you deliver it to students differs according to abilities.

Engage and empower students.

Deliberate focus: 

Smart Learners

Smart Footprint

Smart

Purposeful, designed lessons should be delivered. Teachers need to be confident with the language.

Underlying principals: Be Kind, Positive, Helpful, Thoughtful, Being in the right place at the right time.

We want students to recognise what is not right and know what to do about it. 

Cybersmart is also more about making decisions about: What personal information do I share and what  do I not. 

Smart Parents: supporting family and whanau in partnership with community. How do they connect with their child's learning?

Visible sites, visible planning, visible learning. 

Hapara Deep Dive

Enables visibility of what students are doing.

External on Sharing - shows if student has shared a document with a person outside of organisation.

Through Hapara you can access deleted items and reinstate if necessary.

Smart share - not needed as much when students can view link and make their own copy.

Dorothy suggests: instead of speaking to a student about inappropriate emails. Show on Hapara on TV the G-mail screen to help students understand that when you have an organisation email, anyone (management) can see all your emails.

Hapara Workspace - used for what learners have to hand in. 

Can see how many have started, how many have submitted, can embed into a site so all visible.

Can customise and change view...

Hapara Highlights - 

Pause the Screen

GOYA principal - walk around students while they work... (If not busy with Clinics!)

Can only be viewed when on school property - Protects Teachers 

Home is Private

Manaikalani Journey

Titiri Waitangi - At the heart of it all

Partnership, Participation, Protection

Device should not be taken away if student is off task - "Would you take a Maths book away from a student if they were doodling?" - Dorothy B.  Food for thought! 

Equity in access to learning

NO BOYD: Focus is on learning not on the device

Chromebook Simulator - Digital Dig

Experiencing using a Chromebook

I felt like I knew most of the Chromebook skills and shortcuts - learnt a few new ones too.

Tablets 

For young ones

One to one - a Stylis is essential for handwriting skills 

Set up

Kawa of Care

Storage and Handling

Explain Everything is the platform for i-pads

Inspector - helps to lock items, arrange page

 

Explain Everything Task 1  When I recorded the audio the images were off centre! 

HAPARA WORKSPACE

I've had a go at creating a Workspace for a Cybersmart Task. Creating blog comments.

Here is the link

It is also linked on my Class Site under Cybersmart

It is time consuming but a lot of fun to create. Thanks to Kelsey for sharing her links - I have used them in my Workspace, as well as some of her tasks. 

I had a lot of fun today - learnt so many new things. Excited to see if Workspace will work for my students.