DFI Week 4 - Collaborate sites

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

We started the day with Dorothy via hang out. She was talking about the Share part of the Manaiakalani kaupapa.
This is what i heard...
We have been sharing since time began.
Good time and bad.
Creating and sustaining relationships.
Mode has changed over centuries.
We share in a huge variety of ways.
Biggest change - social media - speed and amplification.
Sharing your lives with other people - making connections and sharing.

My Question is - Are we really more connected with each other when using with social media?

Manaiakalani - decided to harness social media as a hook for good that can be leveraged.

"Work with learners to establish an authentic audience for their learning outcomes."

Add another feature - not getting rid of all the things that already work e.g. taking book to principle, assembly etc.

Ways to share:

With one another, the class, the school, the local community and now.... go global - beyond the local community.
Sharing with purpose - Audience.
Authentic audience.  People who CHOOSE to listen to you.

Why use Blogger?
Resembles the spaces where they want to be.
Secure
Largest audience
Multi purposed
Can be used by learners and teachers.
Latest post on the top.

Cybersmart curriculum - good support.

Kaupapa : Learn create share.     And..   Share to learn.   Share to FINISH learning.
Sharing is the start of new learning -

Links to John Hattie - the importance of feedback and feedforward.

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

Multi Modal - what we mean when we use this term

An inclusive, differentiated approach to teaching in a digital learning environment.

Your site is like a shop window. Is it getting people involved and interested?

Is it engaging? e.g. Teachers creating a movie to hook kids onto their learning.

Needs to be fresh on the home page. Like a road map about where you are going.

Universal Design for Learning:

Even with technology we can still fall into the one size fits all issue. One app for all kids.

In terms of supporting students learning this is not useful. They are all different.

Universal design for learning - acknowledges variability from outset!!

3 aspects:

We are all different in How we perceive information e.g. text, visual, video etc.

What engages one learner does not necessarily engage another learner.

(the default is me - how do i learn - what will motivate me BUT the default needs to be no default
- needs to be many examples of how we present)

There is no average student.

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

The website that i am creating has been started with my learners in mind.
My New Entrant and year 1 Tamariki are bug mad at the moment.
Here is a look at my website.
Creepy Crawly Critters website 

Example of a page.

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

As you can see from this photo I am very intense!! There was so much to learn today and my brain is very FULL!! I can imagine how tamariki feel when they are not given enough time to practise what they have learnt to really embed the learning in their brain.