My 4th day at DFI

Day four of Digital Fluency Intensive

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


share

Including digital technologies into learning. Sharing is not a signal that you have finished your learning. Sharing is a time for feedback, next steps, share your learning with others not in the room.
Rewindable learning to go back and see our progress. Feedback on making a connection to the learning and then thoughtful going forward.

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


Pepeha presentation

Introduce days of weeks, numbers, basic instructions (sit down, come here, look this way) and words to celebrate ( awesome) learning.


Teacher Dashboard you can shuffle the layout of students names for grouping by subject, and also if you want to keep an eye out on a particular student. I have learnt more in one term here than 5 years of teaching!


Smart share is similar to class site, so prefer to use site otherwise I will be doubling up work for myself. This is a pity because I was excited to finally use the groups settings more effectively. But, I am still working digitally by improving with site


Sharing, this file has all the unfiled documents the students need to file, not going to lunch until filed. Should do this each Thursday! Students move to the correct folder, personal items such as photos and documents into the ‘other’ folder
Parents are unable to see students learning through the parent portal. Teacher can’t find the document.
Workspace is prefered for colleges as resources for students but in primary site is prefered.
Highlights you can use this to see if a student is struggling with the learning by not being where they should be.
Gmail you can have a chat to students about sending unkind emails to one another. If you are not going to say this face to face then don’t send it on email.
If a student is sending unkind emails, have a conversation with the student as this is just like bullying a student physically.
Posts keeping a tab on students posting their learning to their blog
Comments enables teacher to see if students are making a connection of their learning to their peers and providing thoughtful questions, being cybersmart, how to comment appropriately online.


Digital Dig Lots of handy shortcut keys and the Kawa of Care


IPADS junior teachers creating lesson plans on IPADS. This is time consuming initially I expect but must be super engaging for the students. A year 0/1 class will spend a term on setting up understanding the basics. Eventually the students will learn how to create their pages for the teacher to monitor their learning on the dashboard. This is Khismira’s class site, pretty amazing to have created all this learning. Her colleagues all pitch in collaboratively creating learning in their expertise or what they would like to trial for their young learners, her class blog and her professional blog. Khismira spoke about how students don’t all have to work on the same curriculum subject but work for themselves on their own learning challenges. I like this idea.

Learning to be creative on Explain Everything an app for IPADS only


Screencastify an app added to My Drive
Reading: student reads their learning to be recorded on screencastify. Edit out the mistakes to hear them reading with fluency as a good reader does. Students need to remember to move their screencastify to the correct folder, ie: media or cybersmart. Find a quiet place to screencastify. Create a screencastify box, cardboard box with foam or egg cartons to provide soundproofing. Webcam can be on if you want your image recorded as you speak. As I am so unphotogenic I won’t be using the webcam (do I really look that old?).

Blog
Labels for posting on your blog is important as a quick reference point. For example, a label on writing, reading, maths, inquiry etc, to add more than one label separate each label with a comma.
Create a new label is the drop down box on Blogger next to publish and revert to draft, or the rubbish bin.
Editing on your published blog posts, click on the pencil
Use the calendar under post setttings to schedule your blog posts.
PTS should be linked to your blog

Not covered but I would love to be able to create like this digitally.
Sisomo- a compelling story told with sight sound and motion - check these retold stories out

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

Valuable links to digital technologies, shared last week.

Dashboard is often used to check students have filed a new document correctly.

Teacher Dashboard  I could move students into grouping or shift the students I know who have difficulty staying on task.

Sharing will go on the TV screen on Monday morning for students to file their documents in the correct places.

Highlights: will be used for helping students to create files in the correct folders so right from the start we won't have to use sharing so much.

Gmail: I see I will have to have a few private conversations with certain students and overall I will inform them of how to use electronic mail appropriately.

Posts: I had made up a spread sheet and Fiona had also created a form for students to post their links so I could check on their progress on blogging. Now I see I can just click on this link to see posting traffic by students

Comments: I will need to talk to the students about this as it is important that we acknowledge each others learning being cybersmart, and start asking thinking questions. I would like some help with understanding this.

Digital Dig: remind students of the Kawa of Care, put this up on the T.V screen and have it as a class shared reading. I could ask them to use quick key to find on a chosen word to see how many times it appears in a text.

Our class does not have IPADS but I can still get creative and share with my students.

Screencastify: the students will be delighted I now understand this record their learning I see this will have many uses in our learning, explaining a new maths strategy as shareable and rewindable learning. Listening and improving on their oral language, science well lots really. I can record a lesson for the students! Soon I will wonder how I ever taught without this.

Labels for blogs: now I understand this I will be able to guide the students with this as a filing cabinet.