DFI - Week 1: Core Business

DFI - Week 1: Core Business

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

My understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy is of the importance of Learn, Create and Share. The foundation and history of Manaiakalani and educators in the Tamaki area back in 2005 and understanding the need for ALL students having access to knowledge and technology. LEARN - The importance to motivate our learners to engage with the curriculum, providing learning opportunities for our students to become 21st century learners. CREATE - Our students having and establishing authentic audience for their learning. SHARE - This is help empower our students to bring to life their student voice. This is the end will help raise student achievements outcomes.

Another point I remember is still using the basic of books for students to use and to put their learning and ideas on paper. Then transfer that knowledge to use of devices to create and share their learning, taking photos, using kidz pix drawing, video and recording students reading out their stories.

Another point was having devices affordable to families.

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

• Today I learned and explored: 
• different web browers, How Goggle Chrome is easier to use with its programs and accessibility.
• Logging into your Gmail account.
• Having different accounts work and personal
• Personalising your drive, and using chrome themes
• Creating folders and having your drive in order and you knowing where your documents are.
• Book Marking websites and organising your book marks.
• The use of the waffle icon.
• The use of omni box and how you can type in a question and press enter, you get your answer.
• Google group - message group, now is cool.
• And how there is more to google docs...
• Using the voice typing tool.
• In google docs - there is so much to explore that I do not know of or existed. It was fun exploring this.

I created this in google docs and the picture in with the dishes and the picture of the child cleaning his room, it had a white background and I was able to change it so it suited the document. (google.bg.) I also used bitmoji images and different type text with different colours.

The learning experience will help me create more creative task designs and using easier ways to use headings, using tools, citing quotes and even changing the paper colour. This allows me to have more skills using documents.

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

I know I will continue to still use their books for students to put their learning and ideas on paper. Then transfer that knowledge to use of devices to create and share their learning, taking photos, video and recording students reading out their stories and adding it to our class blog.

Lately I have been exploring using and creating task boards and using bitmojis. With each tasks I will be adding links to books or youtube clips to other slides with learning.

Lately it has been my home learning site for Room 4. This has been an awesome learning experience designing and creating.

With my learners, I could use adding an image and typing a sentence and also changing the colour of the paper. (I have year 2's and 3's)

Using a table with some many squares or 4. Each square could be an idea, an image and a sentence.

Lastly, using the voice typing tool, they could speak their story and find an image to go with their story. Using the voice typing tool today was fun.

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

I believe I quite confident using google chrome, drive, and the basics of google docs. Exploring the extra tools just makes things easier and faster. What I have learnt today has given me more skills to use programs more efficiently and the knowledge to teach my students.

After my first DFI PLD today, I know things move fast, I need to keep up, and in the end, there are amazing patience Manaiakalani facilitators that will help us all every step of the way in our Digital Fluency Intensive learning journey. Oh I forgot to add my cool digital learning bubble with Venessa and her support and help in our bubble.