DFI Day 8 - Hamilton F2F Cohort

Computational Thinking
Today was our last DFI, Computational Thinking, before our exam tomorrow.  We looked at Empowerment today, had a look at the new Digital Technologies Curriculum and the future of technologies.  We looked into Coding and trying out different sites for this.  I used Scratch to create something for the first time.  It is going to take a lot of playing and getting used to but I'm happy with my first creation.  

DFI Day 7 - Hamilton F2F Cohort

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

Being Cybersmart isn't only for the kids, but for the kaiako, parents/whānau too. The Cybersmart Challenges that that Matt has created look like a fun way to learn all about it.

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

Being able to have a look and work on both the Chromebook and iPapa was worth while.  Not only to see what the tamariki have to use every day, but to get an understanding myself of shortcuts, especially for the chromebook, to help when they are having some trouble.

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

We had a go at using Show Me on the iPapa, and I also had a try and Explain Everything.

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

The more I use these tools I am learning about through the DFIs the more confident I become.  

Below are the examples of my Show Me and Explain Everything creations.

Show me:

Explain Everything:

DFI Day 5 - Hamilton F2F Cohort

 

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

It's important to make learning visible, not only for tamariki but for sharing amongst kaiako.

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

At first I found the concept of making a site difficult, it was hard to compute in my head. The site in the picture below is my one for our kura, and I was having difficulty with what to put in it. After our break we started working on ones for a Multi Modal site, each kaiako and kaimahi doing our own page for our manu amorangi here at kura. For this I started planning first on a piece of paper and soon had a good idea with lots of notes jotted down for where I was going to go with this. Taking the time to writing out a plan for this site made me feel a lot more confident in creating it.

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

I am looking forward to creating my site for the tari, so that I can get info out to the parents and interact with them in a new way. Have forms, procedures etc on there that they will have easy access to and know where to go for them. I will now take the time to plan this out in writing, jotting down notes, so I can get the process sorted out in my head first.

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

Everything we went over today, but like with anything, the more you use it the more I will get used to it and be able to create new things. Writing out a plan will help me a lot, I found once I started writing out one, it led to more and more content I could put in my site.

DFI Day 4 - Hamilton F2F Cohort - Papakura Central School

Our DFI today was at Papakura Central School.  It was good to go somewhere else and meet others on the same learning journey as us. 

In the afternoon session we had to look at student's blogs and analysed the data through sheets to see what we could gather from how many blog posts the student had done over time.  Below is the graph I created with the data used through sheets and a small analysis on what I can see from the data.  I created this with Google Drawings.

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