DFI - Session 7 - 10/09/2021

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

Manaiakalani provides the opportunity for students to connect with the learning outside of school hours. This enhances the children's ability to engage with their work when suits them outside of school hours.

To try and combat the summer slide the Summer Learning Journey was created for children to use over the summer holidays. 1 activity a day for 30 mins. Then this activity is added onto the students blogs, where others can post positive comments. 

Chromebooks - Digital Dig

Was a little tricky to do this without a Chromebook to practise on, but could see it was very helpful to the teachers who have 1:1 Chromebooks in their classrooms. 

Really want to try and push going forward to have 1:1 iPads in our junior classrooms so we can utilise as much of this DFI learning as possible. 

iPads 

We only have around 10 iPads in our learning space with 52 children, so it does make working on an iPad rather tricky. But we have been doing tasks on Explain Everything now for about a year or so. I used it a lot last year with my year 1/2 specifically during reading. 

It was great having a play on Explain Everything and just refreshing my own memory as we haven't used it much this year. 

Reflecting on the Kaupapa of the Manaiakalani Programme in light of COVID 19 , whether you did Lockdown: Season 1 or Seasons 2/3/4, and YOUR readiness for ubiquitous learning...

• What are you proud of?

• What do you regret?

• What have you taken forward into the ‘new’ era of schooling?

I am really proud of the way I have produced our Google Slides over lockdown and being a part of DFI really helped!! I was able to be the tech support person for my team leader, which was great!

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE MOTE!!!