Computational Thinking

It's great how the students are given the opportunity to use technology to create new knowledge.  They are able to creators and does of technology.  It allows them to navigate through what type of technology you can use for a particular task.  We as digitally fluent teachers and digitally fluent students, can work side by side.  

I have improved my confidence and capability through working steadily through the given activities in DFI.  I have chosen which things work for me that I am able to share with my students and colleagues.  I think my students will thoroughly enjoy making use of these activities which will strengthen their ability to be creative and and help them navigate through the various stages and levels.

It's important to know the value and importance of digital technology and digital fluency to help all learners to critically think. solve new challenges and problems.   

Devices

 

• I have learned that I need to be practising with my class of how to facilitate things I'm implementing. ie, google meet, screencastify, google slides etc I need to think about my learners that are frequently absent from school, find out the reasons of why they are missing out, and think about how I can best support them when they are not at school. It's important to have rewindable learning for students so they can watch and listen, along with face to face interaction with learning.
  
  

• I learned that I need to encourage learners to be a confident decision makers online to make smart decisions. A digital citizenship curriculum needs to be provided for learners. Learners need to be engaged and internet smart. They need to focus on positive language. They need to know what's happening in their space.

  
  
  
  

• Learners need to be cybersmart of what they leave behind (footprint), and how they engage with each other online (relationships). They need to remember what they are sharing and not sharing.  

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• I am able to implement cybersmart with my learners and engage in discussions to make them fully aware of how to be internet awesome.

DFI - Enabling Access Sites

I learned that we as educators need to be leading the learning using google sites. Our google sites need to be visible, we need to be learning, sharing, and teaching. We need to accelerate shift. Being visible promotes effective practice and our role as a teacher is to ensure the nature of assigned tasks are relevant, our site needs to be easily accessed and allow our students to have choice and collaboration. Our google site needs to empower and be accessible not only for our students but also our whanau.

I learned that there is a purpose of a learning site for empowerment and visibility. It needs to be visually appealing. The layout needs to be consistent and simple for people to navigate through. I was able to embed my timetable. I was able to use google drawing to upload buttons for my site.

 

I can give my students/whanau the opportunity to navigate through our class site. I can ask for feedback from students/whanau to enhance/improve our site. I was able to be inspired by other teachers' class sites and identify what worked well and didn't work well. I was able to create my timetable and embed it on my site to edit. I'm excited that I created my site from scratch and I'm looking forward to sharing this with my students.

Google Site

• I learned that Learning has to be visible. I am accountable that my practice is visible to my students, colleagues, community and whanau. Encourage conversations about visibility to students, whanau and being transparent. We need an open view of what learning is. I need to think about the planning and the learning process, and using google site to make learning visible, available and accessible.

• I learned that google site needs to used in my class so I, along with my students can feel empowered. It's an opportunity for students to work alongside me and to personalise the learning and understanding that we all learn differently.

• I learned how a google site is created and demonstrate to students how they can navigate their way through the class site - keep it simple, yet effective. 

• I learned it takes time to create and share.