Day 7 Devices

Day 7 

Devices 

Ubiquitous

Ubiquitous is about empowering our learners by connecting them to their learning on their terms.

Rewindable learning is one of the tools to ensure learning is available to the power of A4.  

Learner created rewindable learning (DLO's) are a great resource to include.  By offering ubiquitous learning you are remedying many of the frustrations teachers have - missed learning experiences, relief cover, increasing learner agency.  

The move to At Home Learning has highlighted the value of digital learning.  The routines and processes needed were already in place for learners, with easy access and rewindable learning available on our class site.  While this benefited my practice, I did find I relied on written feedback too heavily, which was time consuming and not ideal for some of the learners I work with.  Discovering Mote definitely helped, but this is an area I need to look into more and refine as this will help both my At Home learning and classroom programme.  I am also considering how to incorporate and encourage learners' rewindable learning as a resource for the class.

I have also collected my learners' opinions of At Home Learning and will unpack their perspective to inform my next steps.  The initial information from them shows the majority of them enjoyed the freedom and agency of choosing the what and the when of their learning, and appreciated the small group Meets where they felt more connected to their learning and each other.  This highlighted to me the importance of individual and small group teaching and learning in a learner-led manner whilst in the classroom as well as online.

'If it is worth learning it is worth capturing.  If it is worth teaching, it is worth capturing.'

Cybersmart

As the Cybersmart curriculum is foundational to the Manaiakalani pedagogy, it was useful to see the overview of the Cybersmart curriculum and the variety of resources available.  I have yet to be involved in a Toki class for a full year, so am looking forward to facilitating the three learning areas and seeing how the learning progresses and develops throughout the year when embedded in our class curriculum.  My key takeaways were this programme is positively framed - it is to EMPOWER our learners and is focused in what you CAN do.

While my experience with this learning is limited, I do wonder how we can encourage our learners to transfer their 'Cybersmarts' to other contexts - such as more private platforms like social media. 

Manaiakalani 1:1 Journey

Tiriti o Waitangi principles of:

Partnership - Ako, Whānau experience and collaboration

Participation - Every learner, every teacher can be supported to be digitally fluent

Protection - Cybersmart, Hāpara, N4L & Linewize filtering

Digital Dig - Complete at the beginning of every year at every level.

Explain Everything 

This was an interesting application to explore.  The teacher made examples highlighted what a great resource this is in any classroom.

Hāpara Workspace

Creating a Hāpara workspace was a first for me.  I can see the benefit of utilising this with my senior learners, and found several useful learning tasks via the discover function.  I was happy to learn workspaces can be embedded on your learning site, as I am currently trying to ensure all learning experiences are within/accessed by our learning site, rather than my initial 'scatter gun' approach (pushing some through Hāpara to folders, some on site etc).  

Blogger Tips

Add Link List gadget to both my blog and our classes to include our Learning Site.