Day 7: New Digital Technologies

 The New Digital Technologies 

This week we were enlightened with new digital resources and information about future technologies which can empower learners and their whanau on taking control of their lives. Technology is not a tool for learners to become a consumers it is a platform that allows learners to become creative directors in sharing their knowledge.

One way we can amplify students creativity and learning is through computational thinking. This teaches students to understand the 6 fundament stages of programming which can be adapted in many areas of knowledge and workspaces. Students become efficient decision makers through practising and following these stages in multitude of ways.

Today we practised programming through using Scratch and StopMotion. My creations are shared below. Programming on Scratch was a challenge as I could not get the backgrounds to change once I incorporated a song. I had to keep checking my sequence and iteration codes to allow the program to flow.

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

Media - Day 3

Digital Age: Modern Technology Sparks and Shares Creativity

"Digital technology engages learners because of the sight, sound and motion. They inspire creative ideas and allow students to record their learning."

It was refreshing to listen to how modern technology is seen as a creative tool in a variety of ways. Everyone recognises that technological devices are important tools to use in schools because it expands classroom learning far beyond school grounds. In a world that is constantly changing or advancing digitally, it can be hard to keep up with rapid innovation of new technologies/ apps/ tools/ sites. In my personal time I will play around on different apps and sites that I hear about. Depending on their safety and accessibility I may share videos with my class or use different tools for students to share their learning. After today, I feel excited about using more platforms for learning and addition keeping students up to date with digital skills.

I think todays sessions has supported my confidence in using sites that i would usually say "are recreational and should be used at home" because of the content is usually spoken about does not seem to fit into education. However, exposure to others classrooms and their use of news reports, podcasts, TikToks, etc.. has sparked my creativity for new reading and writing activities for students to be creative and engaged learners. In addition, this will increase student autonomy and I'm looking forward to see what happens next week.

Slides improving Room 11's workflow

Unless necessary, I always allow students to choose how they want to present their work digitally and majority of students will resort to slides. I never understood why because I grew up using Powerpoints and as much as Powerpoints are fun to use depending on the purpose, I found scratch, docs or drawing more creative. However, after being taught how to make digital worksheets and interactive timetables/task boards, I have been convinced on giving slides ago. The skills I have learnt on slides will help with managing students work as well as creating differentiated work within one place.

Below I am beginning to create my immersion task for Fractions: