DFI 8

I enjoyed todays session. I can totally see how people get 'hooked' on coding, this was really fun. I will need to go back and look at how I enter commands as I did have my sprite going around in circles and banging his head quite often! I can see how this is something the students will really enjoy. The learning about the Digital Technology Curriculum was great. This is something I have noted to go over with staff when we are back at school. There are parts we are already doing well, but using some of the tools to see where we really are and what our next steps are will be very valuable.
Other things I took from this session are:

Empowered Learners and Teachers

Taking back control of their own lives.
Its not just a tool.- transforms the way we learn, new uncharteredexperiences and oportunities.
Assist the making of connections by enabling students to enter and explore new learning environments, overcoming barriers of distance and time.
Nigel Latta - What next.
Agency 'v' empowered. Agency can be a difficult word for some whanau to understand. For some agency is not always positive. Empower people.
32 million less spoken words decile one children compared to decile 10.
1/3 children in decile 1 communities change schools every year.
Teach children to carry on a conversation like table tennis, backwards and forwards.
Opportunity to become discursive through blogging, helps to improve reading and writing.
Kaupapa words - cannot have one without the other. They are empowered because they are connected, ubiquitous and it is visible.

Thefuture of Tech

10 breakthrough technologies of 2020 - Robot dexterity, New wave nuclear power, predicting premature babies, gut probe in a pill, custom cancer vaccines, cow free burger, carbon dioxide catcher, an ECG on your wrist, sanitation without sewers, smooth talking AI assistants.
The activity looking at how driverless cars are programmed was very confronting, challenging your ethics.

The digital technologies curriculum - Computational thinking.

A digitally fluent person can decide when and why to use specific digital technologies to achieve a specific task or solve problems.
A digitally capable person can create their own digital technologies solution.
It is important that students have opportunities to be innovative designers and creators of digitla solutions - moving beyond solely being users and consummers of digital technologies.

Technology strands - Technological practice, Technological knowledge, Nature of technology.

Two new areas - Computational thinking for digital technologies. Designing and developing digitalmutcomes.
Computational thinking - Programming - input, output, sequence, iteration, selection, variables.
Unplugged activities, Algorithms. Understanding human behaviour, Understanding binary, Robotics, Sphero, Arduino, Lego, Makey makey.
Design and developing digital outcomes - DLO digital learning objects, google slides, google drawings, Animation, Stopframe, App development, code org, 3D modelling, environments, Google sketch up, Tinkercard, Movie making, i movie, Movie maker, Game design, scratch, Code, Designing systems.

Progress outcomes/ Elements of programming - Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Debugging

Coding
Had a go at Minecraft - How adictive is this! Great fun. I have to admit that my little man did bang his head against the rocks several times while I was practising!

DFI 7

I have struggled a bit with the DFI today. I am one of those people Dorothy talked about who really need someone sitting beside them, giving them instructions. I had some understanding of Hapara, so that was fine, but I found the chrome book and i pad activities difficult without the actual device.
I also found it difficult to add my Teaching as Inquiry to my blog. This was abit fast for me. I know that I need totake time and often go over things several time to consolidate new knowledge.

Other learning from DFI 7

Being Cyber Smart - Fiona Grant

Elevate the positive, using positive language.

Why Cybersmart?
Empowering young people to make smart decisions online.
Be internet Awesome, be internet smart, be internet strong, be internet alert, be internet kind, be internet brave.
Whoe school focus, consistent language, collaborative planning. Smart learner, smart footprint, smart relationships.
Being Cybersmart empowers learners to connect when their learning is visible and ubiquitous.
Whenever and wherever we share online its personal.
Blog comments - positive, thoughtful, helpful. Right place right time. What does this look like?
Cyber smart learning is at its best when embedded into an existing educational programme.
Smart learners use their device to power up their learning.

Hapara

Hapara allows you to focus on the teaching not the technology.
Can shift panes in Principal view to target specific students.
Documents might be in 'sharing' if you have not directed students to add to the appropriate folder.
Noticed lots of unfiled work in some classes.
Don't have highlights on when students are at home as this is unethical.

1-1
Decision to go 1-1 was providing equity to everybody, align with treaty.
Providing the verybest device for learning for every young person.

Chrome books
Give new teachers a chrome book to use so they become familiar with how the students are learning.
Found these activities quite difficult without having an actual chrome book to try everything on. Will make a point of taking a chrome book from school and going through the Digital Dig again.

I Pads
Learners at the centre of the experience.
Safety video for i pads, check that we are using this with out students.
Explain everything enables teacher and learner to create and share learning.
Use the names that the tools are given on explain everything for consistency,
Like with the chrome books I will get one of our i pads with explain everything and have another go at the tasks.

Screen Castify
I had a go at recording a screen castify. I need to continue to look at how this could be used for instructions relating to online lessons. I would like to look at examples of screen castify's that others have made to get more ideas on how this could be done then used when I am teaching, especially for providing rewindable lessons for students.

DFI session 3

Google hangouts. Depending on how things go with coronavirus this may be something we need to use, so we are feeling a bit better prepared.

Google Hangout with Anne Sinclair

Create-
All the talking together is create.
Its about the hook. How do we hook kids in to learning.
How can we change things for students.
Allow students to be able to create what they need to do to improve metacognition.
Use play to learn things. Class on air - using concrete material to help students learn.
Exploring, let students explore, by grappling they are learning.
Forming original idea, discovery, space for students to discover. Everything we do we can allow time for creation.
Robin Sutton, principal Hornby school blogs.Creating a centre of excellence. Creativity empowers learners.
Students at the centre of the learning. Elwyn Richardson. The Heart of the Matter
Create using your whole senses. music, drama, art etc
Learning comes form the doing.
Intentional use of technologies to enable creativity to play a significant part in learning and teaching .
Children to have choice and collaborate.
Make time for creating in everything we do. Maths/Science still creating.
6 c's of education in 21st century.
Creativity combines sight sound and motion with innovation and imagination as well as accuracy and attention to last detail.
Creativity empowers learners.
Local curriculum used to create.

Google Hangout Kent Sommerville point England School.

Live streaming
Can use drones.
Set up for sports events.
Amping up the share.
Using a full HD camera. Need HDMI out VidiU Go allows for live feeds. Can go to facebook and other platforms. Can use you tube.
Can set up wireless networks outside. Could be a possibility for our outdoor learning space.
Live streaming for sports events which whanau are not able to be at.
Can live stream using laptop webcam.
Can set as private and set to own purposes.
Could film yourself teaching, have completely private and use for own PD
Using a drone use different platform other than you tube. DJi spark good type of drone
Drone also record audio so be careful of what you might be saying.
If its worth teaching its worth sharing. If you value the sharing can you then take it to another level, boost the value of the students sharing.

You Tube
How to make a you tube channel to create a playlist. Can now use this to share video clips with students. Enter video and add to playlist.

Google Draw

Lots of different things you can do. refer back to slides from agenda
In drive go to new - and more google drawing right click for background
When inserting a picture put 'png' after search so you don't get the background
Polyline - insert, line, polyline

Google Slides

When adding new slides make sure most recent is at the front.
Animation - Insert a background, insert an image, move the image for each new slide to create animation. Can insert a text box.
Can link slides for'pick a path' text box will send children to the correct slide.
Save video publish to the web and embed, change size - small and change time, click publish. Copy code Then HTML on blog and copy and paste link into blog.



Reflection

Today I learnt how to add images to slides and create animations. I feel confident to be able to share this with learners and support them to create their own animation or slide show. I also revised google hangouts and was able to join a hangout and present a screen more easily than previously. I also learnt how to embed a slide show onto my blog. This is something that I will need to keep practising to make sure that i Can continue to use this.

Fantastic Friday 23.08.19

On Friday last week I was fortunate enough to be involved in some of the students activities for enviro day. I went with Kauri students up to the dam in the hill above our school to see the ducks and lay rat traps to control any pests that may be staeling our eggs!
We came back down the hill and I worked with a group of students to make scrambled eggs, using some of our amazing duck eggs. We shared these scrambled eggs with students in Puriri and Kowhai Rooms.
The children in Kauri room were having a Teddy Bears Picnic, so I got to join in, as I had brought my Teddy Bear along to school (Very old and doesn't have much fur left)
After lunch I was in Rimu class until we went out with the whole school for cross country practise, very muddy, but lots of fun!
Days like this are fantastic. We are so lucky to have our school in such an amazing place where we get to enjoy all these experiences.

Local Curriculum Design

Each school in New Zealand is required to develop their own school-based curriculum that is aligned to the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC). The Education Review Office (ERO) expects that the school-based curriculum should be relevant, broad, comprehensive, and engaging in nature for the learners of the school. It is also expected that the development of the school-based curriculum is undertaken through extensive consultation with all stakeholders including: Board of Trustees (BoT), staff, parents, local marae, community resources, and students.

Last week I worked with Sue Holmes from Cognition on the initial planning for the design of a curriculum for Oruaiti School. The initial steps for this will be looking at the History of Oruaiti School, talking with local Kaumatua and also looking into the history from when Elwyn Richardson was principal from his book 'In the Early World' I will also talk with other Local Principal's who have been through this process. My aim is to create a school site that shares our curriculum. Surveys will be created and shared for community input.

Learning Progression Framework 23.05.19

Today Kara and I worked with Jenna Crowley and Sue Holmes from Cognition looking at the learning progression framework and how we can use this to help with student assessment.
In this first session we were loking at Mathematics and how the aspects of the learning progression framework align with the curriculum levels and also numeracy stages. We will also look further into possibly recording the information from this using the PACT tool. We will share our learning with the whole staff at a staff meeting later in the term which Jenna will also help to facilitate.

Lesson Study 21.05.19

Today we did our first observation for lesson study. Kara, Jorja and I had one traget student each who we observed as part of a lesson facilitated by Petrina. This lesson had been planed in detail previously with all resources provided.
We had recorded how we thought each of the students would respond during the different parts of the lesson.
We recorded all responses made by the students and then discussed if they matched what we had thought.
We discussed the observation with Rhona, all responses were recorded and Rhona will collate the information and send it back. It will be linked to this post.