DFI 6

Has been a busy couple of weeks with learning going online.
Have had lots of staff meeting to discuss what our learning will look like. Class started on Wednesday with high numbers of students online in all classes. Great to see the faces of all the children. They were so excited and engaged. Teachers have adapted so well and are all using their class sites to guide the learning.
The things I have learnt over the last few weeks on DFI have been a huge benefit. I would never have been able to organise google meets, share my screen and run online staff meetings, or support staff with these things if I had not been part of DFI. I know my staff who have also been through the DFI are  hugely grateful that they have the knowledge to put into practise.

Points from todays DFI
Connected

Digital enables us to keep connected.
24,000 learners part of the manaiakalani outreach.
Shared language connects us, we are visible.
The act of sharing creates connection. Multiple layers of opportunities for learners to connect.
Really simple syndication - pulling everything together for blog posts.
Connected, ubiquitous, empowered, visible. Maximum effectiveness is achieved when all four goals are genuinely occuring.
The important thing is living together, making friends and exchanging ideas.

Sites
What makes a good site - visual, colourful, include learning intentions, not too much writing.
Site isn't replacing the teacher.
Affordances causing accelerated shift. Learn create share - engagement, teaching conversations, cognitive challenge, visibility, scaffolding.
Digital - learning is accessible anywhere, visible planning and teaching.
Consistency throughout age groups.
Aim for three clicks from home page to learning.

I know I need to continue working on building sites. I have found this quite difficult with the distance learning. I often need to be shown things several times. The facilitators have been amaing, and very patient, but it's still not quite the same as face to face. 
I was really impressed with the sites of the other teachers in our group. We have such amazing strengths in our local communities, I know I have within my school as well, and I will use these people to help support my further development in this area.
Link to one site I have created for my teaching day in year 7/8 class.
https://sites.google.com/view/anzac-2020/home?authuser=1

DFI 5 Sites

Learning about sites today. I made a site, but after looking at what others have done I realise that my site would not be engaging or motivating to students. I will go back and continue to work on my site. I think I have enough knowledge of how it works to continue 'playing' and adding things to make my site more appealing. I will continue to look at what others have done and use rewindable learning to access the slides showing us how to create a slide. Learning in this way online is giving me an insight into what the learning is going to be like for our students in the coming weeks. Sometimes it can be difficult to fully understand something when you don't have someone sitting alongside you. I need to be thinking about how we are going to make this happen for our students.

Other things that I got out of todays session.

Gratitude link-So nice to hear of everything that people are grateful for in these challenging times.

Visible Teaching and Learning

Either you can see it or you can't, clear crisp vision. Make what you are doing visible. Limit the links, take away the barriers. Links to everything on class sites, ready to go for all students.
Visibility includes whanau. Whanau in the home can participate in childs learning. Visible to colleagues, making practise visible to learn from each other.
Previously learning has often been hidden from learners and their whanau, not open process contributed to failure at times. Rewindable content means learners can go back and look again.
Success was often being able to read the teachers mind, what did they want.
Cultural capital, parents can help their children how to be successful at school, not the same for all students. Learning intentions and success criteria has helped to make the learning more visible.
Whole journey - planning, process, outcomes, assessment.
Child at the centre of the learning.
Day to day functioning and progression should be open and visible.
Google sites - space to design online website to turbo charge learning.
No surprises - think about this when looking at teachng and learning, think ahead and remove barriers.
Hapara teacher dashboard, designed for manaiakalani so that learning is visible to the teacher. One slide deck to give teachers visibility. Parent portal makes learning visible to parents.
Class on air, episodes still available on class on air, modelling teaching from home.
Inquiries visible online, may be through blogs. share what works and also what doesn't.
Feedback and feed forward crucial to learners. Through technology we can leave comments and get threaded conversations going with children, also through their blogs, keep connecting with their learning.
The most effective teachers use the Learn, Create, Share pedagogy.
Technology can make learning invisible if we don't follow the process, we must not have unnecessary passwords, must not be emailing work to kids, limit the links, work on sites so students can access. Through emails only the students who check their emails will see the work.

Multi modal

So many different modes of communicating our message. Think of the person at the other end. How can we make our learning inclusive. How we can reach students so they can take responsibility for learning online and self scaffold.

Engagement, personalised learning, accelerating student achievement and empowering students.
Hook - how we design and put things together is key.
Class site needs to be engaging. Home page have all strong key communication on here to engage, limit the links, one click to get to somewhere else.
Hook students is first goal. Students interested and want to be there, excited about learning.
Initially engagement through the use of a device, needs to be backed up with engaging activities.
Being right place, right time doing the right thing.
Universal design for learning - no one size fits all. recognise that what engages one student does not necessarily engage another. Class site needs to 'stand alone' be engaging for student. Bring in different media, videos, different texts etc.
How things are presented can engae students. Make multi modal sites engaging and visibly interesting.

Sites-
How to make a new site ... Have another look at the slides for this information.

Thingsto include:

Multi modes might mean written texts a video a song a chart a graphic a cartoon statistics
People can choose the mode that suits their learning. Multiple opportunities to find some way they can learn.
Read multiple texts. Base text, scaffolding text - read independently, complementary text - more examples, challenging text - could be harder, offering different point of view, conflicting information, different approaches. Student selected text - invitation to add to a resouirce bank. Big question

My site (Will keep working on this)
https://sites.google.com/view/sustainability-dfi/reading-material/links-to-readings

DFI 4 Dealing with Data

First Friday session for DFI during lockdown has been great. I have been surprised at how smoothly everything went and can see how this is so useful for our teachers to be using as they continue to teach online during this time.
I have managed to create a google form which I will put out to whanau to get an idea of how online learning is going for them. I found this session very easy to understand. I did feel I got a bit lost in some of the other presentations around My Maps and Google Sheets however breaking off into the smaller groups for more detailed instruction around these clarified things. Great Day!
Below are some of the things I learnt today and will be able to use in the future.

Using a grid for a hangout. So you can see everyone in the hangout at once.

Share/ Tohatoha

As connected learners we share. Those with connectability are able to continue with their learning, so important with what is happening at the moment.
Not something new, not digital, itis a part of human nature. Lockdown - can't share with others, having to stay inside 'bubble'
Opportunity to share in a different way 2005 you tube, facebook, twitter.
Internet so important at this present time, still able to share. Instant sharing.
Change of sharing since time began, only change in the digital age is going beyond the local community to go global. Sharing with a purpose - audience.
Authentic Audience - people who choose to listen to you.
Value the realtime - not the same without a real audience. Face to face
Manaiakalani chose blogger as the main space for children to share. Found that nothing was as good as blogger for meeting a huge range of needs.
Legally BOT owns childrens blogs
Learn how a blog functions by using it.
Hard to teach children to be cyber smart if they are nt actually online.
Share is a sign that you have finished your learning.
Teachers have the opportunity to give imediate feedback to children.
Learning experience can start from share, may be someone asking a question, starts the learning.
John Hattie - importance of feedback and feed forwards. Feedback has high impact on student learning. Need to comment on student blogs. Especially over the next 4 weeks when we are only teaching online. Encourage children to keep posting and keep learning.

Google Forms
Use to collect data.
How to get to google forms. Forms.google.com or from google drive.
Once accessed home screen there are different templates that can be used. Start with blank form, name with appropriate title. When adding a question state what type of question e.g. multi choice etc.
There is some automation, can add new questions in side bar. Can select required option.
Settings access at top right hand of form.
How to share form - email directly to group or specific people, can create sharable link, can embed onto a site.
Can view respose data. responses overview of all answers. Can link data to a spreadsheet, create spreadsheet icon. Can have multiple forms funnelling into one spreadsheet.

My Maps

Toolbar at top for different options.Marker tool can add pins. Line can connect pins to calculate distances, ruler tool to measure. had a bit of trouble understanding this. Looks like would be a great tool to use with students to look at distances between house and school and areas etc for maths. Will look into this more. Had a go at this, was able to import information onto a world map. Looked at tools for measuring distance on a specific area.

Google sheets

Make all columns the same size. Will need to follow up on this and try using some of our school data to analyse more in depth.


Sheets on speed.

Analysing data from a students blog.

Create. 
Choose a students blog to analyse. record button on screen, useful for distance teaching.Shows the conversations you have been having with students regarding their learning, also helpful for rewindable learning. I was able to create a graph from the data of a student showing how many blog posts the student had shared in each month for 2019.

Share - Blogging
Adding labels
Create a label for every blog post. Can configure alphabetically. Back end of blog screen. My labels were already arranged alphabetically.