DFI 8 Computational Thinking Learners and Teachers

 "The Manaiakalini Kaupapa of empowerment is advancing of Rangatiratunga and taking back control of their own lives. " Pat Sneeden Chair MET 

Every child in NZ deserves to have connectivity in their lives. 

EMPOWERED - Its just not a tool. 

EMPOWERMENT - "When it transforms the way we learn.  It offers us uncharted experiences and opportunities" 

Dean Shaneski (2011) 

Children will switch off learning if the learning teachers give is not powerful or worthy of them. 

We as educators need to be creative with our teaching as there is so many more avenues for students to follow. 

We need to "hook" students into learning. 

A point to note is that some of our learners come from families who are on the minimum  earning wage. 

Lack of money disempowers people especially when it comes to choices. 

Some children in the lower socio economic areas arrive at school with 32 million less words in English. 

A point to note is by empowering children to learn with all the educational google tools you will build the oral language in the child. 

Future for Technology 

What it means for our students 

 

Here is a very interesting clip of where technology is taking us. 

Are we as educators keeping up? 

Moral and Ethics in Technology 

There are so many positives in Technology,  as Educators we need to ponder of the Morals and Ethics 

Digital Technologies Curriculum 

A digital Fluent Learner is able to make choices, be empowered and use the digital tool that is appropriate 

to their learning 

A Digital Fluent teacher is able to learn and teach side by side with their digital fluent students. 

Scratch 

What a fun learning experience. 

Learning with my fellow educators and students is a great fun experience. 

Mirah The Cat From Scratch

 Mirah the Cat from Scratch

Scratch

 Love the Cat The cat belongs to Mahira 

Ubiquitous

 Ubiquitous

Any time  

Any where 

Any Place  

A life long Journey 

Removing Barriers     Learning can take place  24/7 . 

The child has the time to learn whenever they choose. 

In 2020 Ubiquitous learning became distance learning for schools in nz 

AT Otahuhu Primary School I'm proud of our staff, who got involved with distance learning with zoom and sea-saw. 

Since then we joined Manaikalini Virtual cluster. This is going to be of benefit to all our learners whereby all barriers ti learning will be removed. 

If its worth teaching,it's worth capturing. - Rewindable Learning. 

What needs to happen - All teachers need to become digitally fluent. 

Cybersmart  Curriculum 

Supports Learn,Create Share Pedagogy 

The Cybersmart Curriculum was developed by the Manaikalani. 

It is modelled on appropriate consistent language. 

When taught in a positive light,digital citizenship helps chn to navigate effectively through the digital world resulting in healthy interactions. 

There are 10 catergories in the cyber smart curriculum. 

They are Smart Learners,Smart footprint,Smart relationships,Smart media,Smart surfing,Smart legal,Smart money,Smart values,Smart teachers,Smart parents

A suggested year would or could look like this 

Term 1  Smart Learner (our learn term)

Term 2 Smart footprint (our create term)

Term 3 Smart Relationships (our Share Term)

1-1 Devices  

- Every child should have their own device.  Learning through the class site creates effective shifts in learning. 

Explain Everything - Such a lot of fun 

Cybersmart Curriculum

 

Explain Everything

 DFI Day 6 

Professional Learning today 

Enabling 

Connectivity 

Another great learning day. 

What is great about being Digitally connected 

Being digitally connected is empowering for our learners. Schools can connect in their clusters. Resources are sent digitally to each others schools. Manaiakalini has a huge connection with the schools that are in their clusters. Each school is using the same LEARN CREATE SHARE. 

Even though it looks different in each school, we are all paddling in the same direction to reach our goals. 

On Wednesday we learnt about 

Designing our site is empowering our learners, who can then empower family members to create their sites. 

Purpose of having a learning site. 

One Stop learning for learning

Learning is accessible

Rewind ability 

Personalised learning 

Visible planning and learning 

Hub of information about events 

Progression for learner and parents 

Weekly overviews and timetables 

Google sites  - creates consistency across the school. They have visual appeal. Visual appeal hooks learners into learning. 

These sites are very useful for personal and professional growth.  

 

 Here is my Matariki Site 

 DFI 6 Visibility 

Learn Create Share 

Dorothy discussed visible teaching and learning . The Learning journey needs to be visible for parents, students and families. 

What all educators need to is the learning visible learning. That includes all the preparation and planning to all the stakeholders. 

The google sites have lead the way in visible learning. 

Educators need to reflect on digital technology to make it accessible online, removing all barriers to visible learning.

The new vision is to have class sites for all learners. This technology makes learning visible all the time, no  matter where the child is.  

Multi Modal Sites 

Today we created our own multi modal site. Mine is a very beginner effort. With more learning I'll become proficient.

Kerry spoke about multimodal communications.  A perfect way to engage,Empower and  encourage personalised learning.

Most importantly students learn to create and share learning. 

  

Visuals

 

 DFI  Day 4 

Pedagogy 

SHARING 

The instinct to share is the hook for learning. 

Sharing is a major part of who we are are!

The Manaiakalini programme has capitalised on sharing.

April 2005 was the birth of sharing. It was the introduction of U Tube,Facebook and many more sharing platforms. 

It's the best thing that has happened to all of us. It gave everyone the ability to share their lives.

The purpose of sharing is sharing to an audience. 

Sharing in the digital age is  beyond the community. It covers  everyone in the world. 

It gives everyone the decision who they want to listen to. 

Learn Create Share - Is where learning starts. 

SHARING = LEARNING CAN START. 

TODAY  was a great challenging day. Google Forms is great for sharing as is Google sheets. 

I can use both in my professional and personal space. 

 

DFI Day 4 Student Data

 

Today I created a spreadsheet on a student's blogging. Her name is Sulia. She is blogging since 2017 till now in 2021. In 2017she had 32 post. 2018 she created 221 post. In 2019 she created 346post. In 2020 she created 183 post and this year she created 11 post so far. 

In 2019 she created the  346 post her most ever.