Day 8: Devices and Rewindable Learning

 

"If it's worth teaching or learning, It's worth capturing" -Manaiakalani (DFI) 

Rewindable learning means learners have access to re-watch their learning over and over again. This empowers students to take control of their learning. Today, I was reminded that students who arrive at school with 30, 000, 000 words (no matter which language) by the age of 5 are more advantageous than those who come with less as use of language outside of school links with learning possibilities. Students who do not have as much language being used outside of school can be supported by providing them with access to ubiquitous learning through harnessing technology. It allows us to reduce barriers of learning for students. 

Upon reflection, I haven't created much ubiquitous learning because of my limited skills and knowledge on how to share teaching and learning within the classroom. Developing my skills in DFI I have been able to create some ubiquitous learning on the site and implement routines to make students utilise these resources. However, I do find them time consuming for both myself uploading content and students uploading their own rewindable resources. My goal this term was to make our DMIC learning more visible and rewindable which I felt I accomplished but I would like to apply these skills to other aspects of learning and have the teaching and learning visible in a more effective and efficient way. 

As a learner of the CyberSmart program it was good to understand the two components of being Smart and Secure. Smart is the component that I am responsible for as a teacher creating learners to be confident, connected, actively involved, life-long learners. We are working with learners who are known as  'Generation Alpha' because they are immersed into the digital world from an incredibly young age since the gross innovation of technology and therefore, as teachers and adults we have a responsibility to make all learners Cybersmart. 

This afternoon I created my first Harpara workspace. It was really simple to use and will make students more accountable on managing their time to finish work. It is a lot easier for myself to keep track on their documents.  My activity was about linking Smartvalues and digital footprints  - ideally my next lesson would be following on with the topic to focus on how to be positive online learner.  This is re-constructed from a previous Cybersmart lesson. I'm looking forward to trying out my activity next term.  

Working on Ipads: 

Day 5: Collaborative Sites

 Visible Kaupapa

Today's Manaiakalani Kaupapa was about making teaching and learning visible to students. Enabling all students to navigate the education system for success by making the planning, process, outcome, assessment visible. In the term holidays, I made a technology reading page on my class site for my students with as much multi-media I could find to get them engaged. It was my proudest page because I find it really hard to create an aesthetically pleasing site to suit all my learners. I found that the kids were more engaged this term but the layout made activities and tasks hard to follow. I have really enjoyed this morning having a look at other people’s sites and how they layout their visible learning. It has been good to get some ideas on how to make it accessible to all learners, parents and other teachers following the Manaiakalani Kaupapa on learn, create and share. I'm looking forward to finding spare time to sit down and get my site organised to be engaged behavioural and cognitively. I would love to be able to add audio recordings to my site.

Here is a development of my learning during the explore and create sessions. These sessions felt very intensive and required a lot of patience and energy. I am quite tired now but happy I've learnt different ways to organise my planning and sharing with students and staff. It was also a bonus to see get access to variety of multi-texts already linked to themes.

Below you will find my planning, my digital creation and my site to follow. 

        

Here is the link to my site HC Maori Technologies