Digital Fluency Week 3 Reflection

8.8.18  Reflecting on Week 3 of the Digital Fluency Intensive

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

Dorothy Burt spoke about the concept of 'create'.

Key points for me to take away...

We need to engage students, i.e., hook them in to learning and creating. Everyone benefits from creating.
Forming original ideas through creativity and exploration.
Creativity empowers learners.

Teacher creativity 

Create learning opportunities based on the internal and external lives of the children. 
Tactile unpacking of creativity. We want school to be wonderful. 
Kids should want to be at school. 
"The heart of the matter"-documentary on Maori TV. It is not about play and exploring vs digital. It is about exploring the learning.

Create is a doing word and it involves the whole body. What does that look like? The graphic that emerged from the collaborative document symbolises the pedagogy of ...
1. Creativity empowers learning
2. Digital Technologies empowers creativity.

We can't go from planning to the kids brain. There must be a physical involvement to explore the learning.
Motivate students to engage with the curriculum. Manaiakalani intentionally uses  modern technologies to enable and capture creativity. 
Students are creators of content not merely consumers.
The 'Deep Thinking Competencies' are an avenue for expression.
Sisomo...sight, sound and motion are components for creativity.

Good quote:
"Creativity focuses on the process of forming original ideas though exploration and creativity" -Kohl 2008

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

Google Slides
The learning about Google slides affirmed what I knew already but the opportunity to create a slide show was welcome practice. This was very relevant for me. The message here was to keep each slide simple with few but carefully selected words and a simple image. Handy Hints included the following...
Themes should be relevant and headings the same. Could use slides for lessons that detail the date, the WALT and the exemplar, possibly a picture of the journal/text. Great idea. If we search an image with gif, we will get animated images. If we search with PNG we have transparent background.

YouTube

Dorothy spoke about creating on Youtube, as a teacher. Embed the YouTube link on the class site and the children will watch it there. Videos must go to Google Drive and set permissions on the folder (visible to anyone with link). Students can go onto youtube for some competitions but that needs monitoring. The school must take down any images that any person finds objectionable.

We set up our own YouTube channel and created play lists. This was very helpful for storing my many videos for different subjects and for linking with my students later.

Google Drawing

We made a practice page with animation and an " About Me" button. I was not sure what the purpose of the button was but it is inserted at the bottom of this post. 

Screencastify

This will help me capture instructions for doing the many new things from this course (Rewindable learning).

This the link for the Screencastify recording of Kerry explaining how to embed a video or image into my blog...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NwNqariFaElWbqrc6Uw21iLAvp4ZysUr/view?usp=sharing

What did I learn that could be used with my learners , capability or workflow in my personal life?

Google Drawing: Examples for use- Geometrical shapes used to draw a robot.

Google Slides: Could be used for shared lessons; Maths problems, writing exemplars and WALTs, animations, school TV notices, game of jeopardy etc




YouTube Play lists: Used to create play lists for different subjects e.g., dance, music aspects, maths tutorials

"Story path" online learning spaces for parents at ECE level. Learning stories of experiences and learning/creating. 

Screencastify: A very handy way of recording peer or teacher instructions for revisiting later and consolidating new learning..