DFI Day 3

DFI Day 3 

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

Creative skills help students become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators. 
Empowering our learners through:
*Choice
*Information / knowledge
*Developing skills
*Building capacity
*Scaffolding
As John Dewey said “Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.” 





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

Reflective thinking for my way forward:
Effective teachers using Learn-Create-Share pedagogy design challenging, relevant, thought-provoking and open-ended tasks, which allow students’ choice and collaboration
The tasks I give students should be unconstrained, so there is no upper limit of what they might achieve, and allow students to write or compose at length. 

The tasks I design should generate thinking, and allow for student collaboration and choice in learning and in creating. Tasks should deliberately focus on thinking, while I offer support for these tasks through optional and/or compulsory workshops as a response to identified needs. 


This ensures my students will be able to take more responsibility for selecting topics to learn about. Tasks will require extended and incidental reading.


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

-Utilising the tools built into google slides to enable learners to CREATE.
-Making google slides using consistent formatting, linking 'like' colours, embedding links into them.

Here's a simple slide I created for our opening karakia at our school liturgy which my class is running on Monday. 




This is how I embedded it onto my blog:

Step 1:



Step 2
Click embed, then publish. A pop up will appear. Click OK.



Step 3

Copy the code (HTML).

Step 4
Go to your blog. Click on the HTML button, find where you want to paste it in the code and do so.


Other learning consisted of:
-SiSoMo - sight, sound and motion.
-Using a drone to live stream sports events (Kent Sommerville from Pt England School). Engaging the community. This can be added to later with students commentary. Students need to think carefully about what they say!
-I also created my own YouTube channel but in the plethora of new learning forgot to bookmark it/One Tab it/"anything it". Now I don't know where to find it, and if I do, I don't know what to do with it! The result of an influx of new learning creating a brain explosion and subsequent meltdown!

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Small steps. Things take time. Breathe! It's exhausting learning new things!