DFI Cohort 2 2019 Day 3 19 June 2019

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani

kaupapa and pedagogy?

Create -needs to be focused on creativity. All the traditional and old-fashioned activities that we used to engage children in are still totally relevant at the beginning of the 21st century. You are still allowed to build constructions, mould clay and make dioramas etc. However, we can make use of 21st century digital devices to facilitate the creation of such stuff and to share the end products with the world.

Matt Goodwin visited us from Pt.England School and told us  a lot about his journey so far with
Learn, Create, Share.

SiSoMo

Creativity combines Sight + Sound + Motion Innovation + Imagination+Accuracy + Attention to detail

People say students are more engaged when they are creating something and as they get more
creative they will require less scaffolding.  Example: "Create a movie on the 5X tables" - kids will
seek answers. If they have ownership, it'll likely be more successful. Students will be  learning naturally
as they 'doing' something. You have to be careful though to construct creation tasks which can only be
completed by using/displaying what you wanted them to have learned at the same time leaving space
for them to incorporate incidental insights which they have picked up along the way.

Here's a little diagram we were asked to redesign to show some creative things our students have done.
Let's see if I can remember how to embed this:

Live stream with Kent Somerville - using HD camera, laptop webcam and dromes. An expensive and
 complicated procedure-also slightly creepy about the time delay- your feed has to go all the way to
California and back -this is not something benign- you can be sure that someone very Big Brotherish is
watching. Might be an  inspiring notion for kids to research: eg. Think about all the different forms o
f surveillance that exist in the world nowadays that we know about….there are a lot...Now, try and think
about what’s out there that is being directed towards us that we don’t know about….What kinds of
surveillance would you invent if you could and how would they work??

Here’s another thought-Why are we so obsessed with recording everything we do on film? What ever
happened to just being there in the moment-in the real world? Sometimes I think we are in danger of
raising children who feel they are not part of nature. Is constant connectivity via the cyber world making
us become addicted to the notion of never missing out on anything and having to be present and
witnessing everything all the time like some kind of  I-can’t-stand-to-not-be-in-on-everything
attention addict ?

I have previously set up my own You Tube channel but it was good to get tips on how to organise it
and set up folders to sort your stuff. I find it particularly good for maths and science.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or

workflow as a professional?

Learning how to embed Youtube and slides  has been helpful. You can then be very specific with videos that you want to direct your class to and embed them into a slide etc. It would reduce problems with students wasting time.

The Google Slides tips were helpful as I use Slides all the time for planning and lesson creation.

Here are some tips:Google Slides.

Google draw - lots of templates.  I already have most of these but found a few new good ones.

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

I use Google Draw, Slides and Youtube all the time for planning and teaching. I definitely want to use
them more. I think I should get the Youtube movies I have used in the past for maths instruction
organised in a better way so that it is easier for students to use to rewind their learning.

I'm going to keep working on Google Keep. Found out about a guy called Tim
Bowers who runs a site called Control Alt Delete. He has a lot of tips for all kinds of stuff plus
he uses Keep to help with students' comments. Here is a link to some of his stuff:

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability

or workflow in my personal life?

I should learn how to use live streaming using a laptop/cellphone. It would be great
to be able to send stuff to my children and my class when my husband and I are in
Yellowstone Park in September.

So, now I am going to attempt to imbed a slideshow I made with my class last term. It's about Chlorophyll.