Day two of Manaiakalani Facilitators' Hui 

12 April 2019

DIGITAL DEVICE MANAGEMENT:

Learning about the complexities of Manaiakalani device management across all the clusters.  Huge area of work if not done well will bring about  much frustration for teachers / facilitators.

My Comment:  I am unsure whether or not school leaders appreciate the complexity.  I can see the reason for a single tech provider across a cluster.  The intertwining of tech support with every aspect of the programme means that having to deal with many tech providers would be unworkable.

ADVICE: After a year of experience working as a cluster in Tairawhiti with 14 schools, and having many hurdles to scramble over, I think our ability to "COLLABORATE" is being challenged.   We need to settle with ALL SCHOOLS having one provider and at least move toward this as an important goal over the coming term. 

Can our schools make progress here . . . ?????

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ...

Quote from Alice in Wonderland
"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." 
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Manaiakalani Facilitator Hui

My notes / reflections / learnings from Manaiakalani Facilitators Hui

Thursday 11 April 2019

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.C. S. Lewis

“I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.” 

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

LEARN:

Digital is foundational to sound teaching practices.  Teaching reading is still supported by quality shared and guided reading practices.  There is nothing digital about this.  It involves deliberate acts of teaching.

My questions:

• Is this fully understood by teachers embarking on the changes brought about by the digital world?
• Are we making strong links to the proven, and often traditionally effective teaching practices, with what we intend to do with learners in a digital world.
• When teachers think about moving from CREATE to LEARN do we need to be careful not name or even suggest the "road" to be taken?
• How much does "CREATE" need to be "COLLABORATIVE?

Create to Learn
In making a short simple video clip with mobile phone camera three of us created a scene where LEARNING happened.   Showed that LEARNING happens whole CREATING . ie CREATE to LEARN.    It is, however, very intentional not a free-for-all.

“Give the pupils teachers something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

John Dewey

Creating provides students with an opportunity to reflect on, synthesize, and come to a deeper understanding of what they read and know – or think they know.

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'' That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.'I don't much care where -' said Alice.'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.'- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

LEARN - CREATE - SHARE                       linear or integrated??

Digital Fluency Intensive 5

Here we are again with the fifth DFI session.  

Have learnt about screen-casting which is incredibly valuable.

Other learnings:

🗹 "Explain Everything" on the Ipad.

🗹  Going over "Digital Dig."

🗹  Going over "Cybersmart Curriculum.

NOTE:  I can see huge value in using much of the Manaiakalani resources for school Digital Strategic Planning.

Day 4 of Digital Fluency Intensive

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

🗹  Google Sheets:  Using "natural language" to ask questions around the data.  Creating more meaningful charts to suit my questions.

🗹  The group dialogue around SHARE and the importance of relating to an "audience."

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

🗹  Using Google Sheets charts is most relevant to my work.  For example: I can create a chart and make a "live link" to the number of blog posts for each student and the chart will be updated automatically over time without me having to go and update data manually.

DAY 3 - Digital Fluency Intensive

My Learning Today:

🗹  Setting up Youtube channel.

🗹  How to livestream.

🗹 Reviewed Slides

🗹 Made a gadget for my blog.

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

Creativity Empowers Learners

To quote Hornby Secondary school Principal - "We are pushing hard to develop the use of digital tools in our students' learning. Digital tools are acknowledged as an accelerator of learning, as long as they are used with new pedagogies. Using new technology to do what we have always done is, as Alan November would say, simply creating a $1000 pencil.

The evidence being accumulated by the Woolf Fisher Research Centre out of Auckland University supports the belief that the technology, combined with the Learn Create Share pedagogy, is an accelerator. Actually it's more than that, it's a game changer for our learners.”

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

I am learning to switch more confidently between Google apps which will indeed improve my workflow.

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

My learners are not children but adults involved in education. I would like to encourage my colleagues to invest in more time 

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

My confidence is growing daily as I use the tools and tricks of the trade in my usual workflow.

Visible Learning:

I can see many parallels between the Maniaiakalani LEARN CREATE SHARE pedagogy and "Visible Learning" . (John Hattie stuff).  I would like to provide some posts and draw some connections if I can.  Here's a start . . .  check this blog . . .

https://bbullis.edublogs.org/2016/03/16/john-hatties-top-ten-visible-learning-takeaways-number-one-self-reported-gradesstudent-expectations/

Liked this - it is part of the above blog coming from Carol Dweck of Growth Mindsets fame. . . 

DFI Day 2

These are some of my learnings from the Digital Fluency Intensive today. Friday 7 March.

• Organising my emails.
• Google Keep
• Practiced Google Hangout.  Very successful.
• Toby
• Organising my calendar better.
• Linking my google stuff to my phone.
• Installed LOOM on my computer and learnt how to record and present my screen with speech to a Hangout group.  (Thanks Herman for your help)

A thought:  At our Manaiakalani PLG yesterday we discussed the importance of our Cluster having a "roadmap."  A sample framework for creating a Roadmap has been sent out to Principals but much work by each school is needed to complete it so as to reflect the particular school's unique character.

The LEARN, CREATE, SHARE pedagogy is a great place to start.

The above "LEARN" set of slides prepared by Dorothy is an excellent place to start the thinking.

How Herman helped me learn to embed a recording.

My Reflections on todays Learning at the Digital Learning Intensive.  (i.e. my first try at embedding a recording)