Te Hiku Manaiakalani Outreach 2 Launch Day

Manaiakalani TOD- 29th January 2020

Learn, Create, Share- Dorothy Burt.
Dorothy Slides

Digital curriculum-

How can we set up the digital curriculum in our school?

DFI #9- Revision

Wednesday 13th November 2019


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

Today we talked about Ubiquitous Learning with Kerry and Vanessa. This is about learning being anywhere, anytime, any place- which after being on the Manaiakalani journey this year I really do believe that this is what learning has become in my class.
When students are away they can find our learning on our class site. They can also see examples of what others have done which I have found has helped a lot of my learners start tasks more promptly and less students saying they don't know what they are doing. 


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

Kerry mentioned a website that can find alternative apps https://alternativeto.net/ I will definitely use this to try and find different apps for things that I could use personally or for school things to.


What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

I want to have a go at using google classrooms with my students to set assignments for them and have a discussion area and see if they enjoy this.


Test day- Today we had our google exam and I passed!
The test was a lot different than what I was expecting and was a lot of reading.

DFI #8- Computational Thinking

Wednesday 6th November 2019

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa today - specifically empowerment?

After talking with Dorothy she made a huge point of saying that if Chromebook's are only a tool then get our families to purchase a $2 tool. We should be using these things to change the lives of our whanau. We want to empower our children in their learning. I connected with this because next year our school is offering parents the opportunity to buy the devices so this has made me really think about how I am going to make sure my students are really getting the most out of them rather than using them as a tool.

Also completely agree with what Dorothy said about Imoko, I think that this service is absolutely amazing for kids and their families as a lot of parents can't get into the doctor in our area so its great to get kids what they need when they are at school.

I also really liked what Dorothy said about making sure we use the comment section on the blogs to have a conversation with others- rather than "look someone commented on my blog" and ignoring it- this is something that Kerry and Vanessa have made sure we do when commenting on blogs at DFI. 

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

I learnt how to use scratch better which will make me use it more in my class- my kids love to use it so this will be great!
It was also great to look at the kid speak progressions for digital technologies- will be really good to share these with my school and our students so they are clear about what they are able to do.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 

It would be awesome if we could get some of the dash bots for our school. We got to use these today and I have been to another Manaiakalani school and the year 6 students taught me how to use it and it was an amazing way to connect with their learning and have the students as the teachers! I would love to see my students do this at school and in our community.
I have also used scratch with my class but now that I know more about it I will use it more in class.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

I think something that I will use in my personal life is the removing background app we were shown- makes it so much faster and easier to add pictures and get rid of the background, will also be using this at school!

Had a go at making a scratch video- want to get my kids to do something like this to show how to be Kaitiaki at our school.

Hard at work today!

DFI #7- Media

Wednesday 30th October 2019

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

After talking with Dorothy my understanding of what connected means now links with why we do DFI and have sites and blogs. Connected- connecting us to a powerful network. Through Manaiakalani we get to connect with other teachers from different schools through DFI. This means we get to share ideas and resources easily with each other.  We would not get these opportunities without DFI.

Connected and share go together- because when you share you are connecting with people.
Dorothy also discussed that it is important to be connected face to face too. I agree with this because from DFI it is great to get the opportunity to meet with different educators and chat about what works at there schools and also any struggles we may be having. I also think this is why google hangouts is such a great tool that although we are not in the same room we still get to see and talk to each other easily.

I did not know that they had used the technology of twitter to use the blogs that we have to see how many blog posts have been made.

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

After talking to Kent about how he uses the drone to load videos onto youtube to share with wider whanau in different areas has made me think more about how we could use this at our school. It would be amazing if we could stream live to youtube straight away.
We have a huge cross country event in the Far North and it would be amazing to have footage of that day.
I am keen to use youtube to live stream things we do in a class- I didn't know you could go live from youtube or schedule an event to happen- could be cool to have this on our class site as a count down.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 
I learnt how to create an animation and hide things behind pictures. I can show my students this, they will love it!!


Also learnt how to make a portrait on google draw which I would love to teach my kids as well!

DFI #5- Enabling Access (Sites).

Wednesday 16th October 2019

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

After listening to Dorothy it became clear why it is important to make teaching and learning visible. Visible learning means the whole learning journey visible to the learner. This includes planning, process, outcomes and assessment. Personal information of the learner should still be private but the day to day planning doesn't need to be.

Hapara has been designed to help make learning visible.

If we make learning visible through our class site it also makes learning rewindable which is great in a classroom when kids are away or miss a session they can easily find what they need.

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

I have learnt how to make buttons for on my site that are so much better to look and I have created a homepage that is much more appealing for my kids and my site is now much more for my kids learning. My kids will now be able to find things much easier on my site and I will be able to add more onto to make their learning visible and rewindable.

Link to my site

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

When learning how to make buttons I discovered how to change the shape of images- this is something I will show my kids for when they are making posters on google drawings. I will also show my learners how they can use our class site to help with their learning.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Now that I have learnt how to design my class site I will be able to add more to my site and keep it on there which will mean spending less of my personal time on school related activities.

DFI #2- Workflow

Wednesday 4th September 2019

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

I learnt how learn/ako links to the curriculum and how its about what we are already doing and how the digital world links with this. It also made me think about what "learn" looks like at my school and what is happening in my school. 
At my school we have PD, SENCO, RTLB's, mentoring, Phonics, DFI, Quick 60 and many more things that support the learn kaupapa.  

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

How to use google hangouts set up, invite and check availability of the people you are inviting - could use this for staff meetings or if someone is away and need to be apart of a meeting.  

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

Screen recording- quick time. Could use this to record things that I want the kids to learn and they can use this to help them do certain task. I want to record my-self embedding into a blog so the kids can watch that to help them remember how to do this.
When we did this it did not record the sound be we now know that we have to turn this on when we are screen recording.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

I learnt how to organise my Gmail so different emails can be filtered to labels and have organised my Gmail so that my important emails are the first emails I see which has made my gmail much easier to look at and use. 

Manaiakalani PD- Share

Tuesday 3rd September 2019

Share/Connect- Slides

Types of sharing- 

1:1- face to face

1:group 30 people

1:Crowd 30-1000 people

1:world- global (blogging). 

Looking at the positive not the negative.

Can set up an email that you can send a bog post to so can do a blog post via email. 

Summer learning journal- activities for kids to do over the summer holidays- helps to keep kids on to their learning. 

Now that there is data for Manaiakalani it has shown that year 9's from non Manaiakalani are 2 years below the national norm.

Creating high expectation classrooms- Christine Rubie Davies

Monday 22nd July 2019
TOD

High expectation teaching-

• Grouping and learning activities 
• Classroom climate 
• Student autonomy- motivation and engagement

Stereotyping turns into bias- not allowing variation (grouping in class). 

When you have higher expectations research shows that the students will achieve higher.

Create opportunities for all kids to work together in mixed groups in all areas. 

Middle Block- 

Goal Setting- 

Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and rewards- 

Use the interest of the kids to promote learning. 

- constantly feeding back to the kids about their learning- know what they are learning and how they can move onto the next level. Setting and re-setting goals, check and see if they can do it- prove it so they can move on. Needs to relate to the learning intentions/success criteria (don't have total autonomy).

Help seeking is critical to help with goal setting and learning- making mistakes are about learning- change the culture. 

Key factors of goal setting: 

• Motivation 
• Attention 
• Challenge 
• Feedback 
• Self-efficacy 
• Self-regulation 
• The proximal versus the distal nature of the goal 
• Self-set versus teacher-assisted goals 

Implementing goal setting- 

• Personal bests 
• E-asTTle and goal setting 
• SMART goals

Need to be taught how to set goals- use something they have already have eg asttle test ILP/PAT

Last Block- 

Classroom climate- 

Body language- what are we showing the kids. 

What have the kids got going on outside of school. 

Focus on the behaviour and not the student. 

Does our facial expression match the emotion?

Whanau involvement- what do parents have an interest in at the start of the year.

Call parents when their kids are doing well- not just for bad things. 

Attributes of a effective teacher. 

Manaiakalani WFRC presention