Esther's DFI Week 2 reflection

Reflection Questions for Week 2

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

Dorothy explained the  place of “Learn” in Manaiakalani. Her video is contained in the agenda for the day. It is future focussed and is about increasing teacher effectiveness and accelerating learning outcomes in a digital environment.

Recognise: Teacher and student competence in learning

Turbocharge: The digital component-create

Amplify: The share feature

Schools need to have their own definition of “Learning” on their landing page or school site.

Higher Order thinking is to the fore e.g., Blooms Taxonomy

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

Confidence and Capability:

The course was helpful in the following ways....

Workflow:

Bookmarks- We looked at how to use bookmarks and organise bookmark folders that contain resources and links.

Calendars- We used settings on Google calendar to make appointments and send invitations to others. I will set up a Senco calendar for scheduling key tasks and invite people to IEP meetings etc. I might share this with the specialist teacher too.

I will sync calendars to my phone. I was able to send a hangout invitation using the calendar, which was a first.

Hangouts: This was definitely a steep learning curve for me today. It was my first time using quicktime. Etiquette for hangout needs to be understood by all before starting. Having different roles for the creation of this movie was interesting. I could see that this could be an effective means of sharing/collaborating once my capability is improved.

Small group hangout video

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

The hangouts potentially have real benefits for me as Senco, to share and collaborate for the benefit of students with additional needs (SWANs). They could be used for IEPs if parties could not meet although it could disadvantage parents who couldn't attend. Groups of students across the school could collaborate about a topic, perhaps as experts or expert to novices, or about a shared responsibility such as the PB4L group.