What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Manaiakalani - How it came about
It begun with a cluster of schools in Tamaki (Auckland) who were looking at how the digital age was impacting our young people and how they could best jump on this wave to positively impact young lives in their cluster. A big focus was providing the same opportunities for children in a decile 1 schools.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I was able to Add a photo to my Google Profile, which will make it easy for people to identify who I am and who they are speaking to. I also then added a couple of extensions such as colorPicker and Mote to my work computer.
I found moving around the google dashboard has encouraged me to be a little more adventurous and not so scared to get things wrong. Some of the workings of today I am familiar with but it was great to reassure myself on how they work. I am very much a person, if I don't use something all the time I lose it! I am looking forward to having time to play with the apps that we have used today, reading the notes in more depth and taking the time to digest.
Having time to organise my drive was fabulous, my drive was quite organised to begin with but was great to be able to add some pretty colours!
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
This is the create activity that I made to support our junior learners with their reading strategies. I have included links to the GoogleDoc explanation for each of the strategies which can then be read in more depth.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Again having more confidence with how GoogleDocs works and the added tools that I hadn't explored before today. I was great to meet my Bubble Group today too and have a safe, judgement free zone to explore new learning.
