Workflow: Agenda Day 2, Christchurch Cohort 2, 2019

Managing Workflow

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

A review of the SAMR Model by Dr. R. Puentedura (below) helped remind me of the purpose of using the digital technology (Chromebooks) in the classroom, along with my teaching practice to improve the learning outcomes for my students.

An example of this is rewindable learning- where I can capture the 'gold' that students need to learn and enable them to review whenever they need.

This is an example of technology not just being a tool, but enables learning that was not possible previously.

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

Toby Mini is an application I have installed today to make life easier while planning. I want to have my maths planning open in multiple tabs and organise them into a folder which can then easily be opened and shared.
Another application that seems to be useful is Google hangout/google calendar. I've set up a google hangout with Nick and Paige (team members).

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

Today probably the biggest breakthrough was related to the last activity that we took part in. 

I considered most challenging role to be the screen recorder (using 'Quicktime Player') and so I decided to take that on. I experienced discomfort not having used Quicktime before, but in a safe learning environment what better place to learn. After asking Mark and Tanya, finally I got the gist of it. Unfortunately my group had to restart the google hangout because I missed the recording! But they were very gracious. Why can I take this back to my learners? Having a Growth mindset and also understanding the feelings the children are likely to experience around new learning, in other words having empathy for my learners. It would of course be remiss not to attach the file here. 

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

I have installed One Tab and collected a number of tabs onto the 'One Tab' which allows me to have multiple tabs open and keep them manageable. .

GoogleKeep is another application that I will use to manage areas of home life. It is much like a diary that can be used as a checklist- but with the digital aspect -turbocharging by either copying the note again, reading other people's notes, linking the keep to Google drive, using google drawings, etc. 

DIGITAL FLUENCY INTENSIVE: DAY 1: Share: Embed and Rewind Content

Digital Fluency Intensive: Reflections on Day 1

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

I learnt that in 2009 after two years of 'Learn, Create, Share' pedagogy without 1-1 devices, schools in the Manaiakalani Outreach Programme showed significant shifts in students AsTTle writing beyond the expected national norms.

Origins Story: The Manaiakalani Programme

Beyond this was the realisation that by giving students a personal voice in the classroom, then learning had relevance to the children's own lives.
The challenge is always to raise achievement levels in schools. We recently had discussions on this, specifically looking at our 'Summer Lag' where students are returning to school in Term 1 at a lower level to Term 4 in the previous year.

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

A few of the tips I have learnt today include:

Sharing by: Shift z (Keeps it in the folder & put it in another folder, modifying in new folder and original folder)

Shift z- add to drive & shared material will move to your drive & keep updating

Put material created into folder with settings as: Anyone with the link can view

Creating docs

*Go to place you want it to be in first (rather than starting with a doc. open).

*Command/ shift/ V - takes away the formatting

*Command D- deletes text

Previously had been using Pages as a way of creating a class newsletter. Today I created a class newsletter on Google Docs, found it was a lot faster, easier to manipulate and produced a good final product (see below).

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

Oral Language

Have students read into voice typing

Then read over what they said and talk about what they have created.

Use a cup to speak into it to block noise from outside

Ensure children are speaking properly- persevere

Connect the docs

Read a piece of text

-highlight a piece and share with kids

-comment on a section- ask kids to ask questions of others

Have hard copy- then put link into chromebook- ask quesitons on the docs

Also looked at a couple of Add Ons on Google:

Doc to Forms- Allows you to quickly and easily create a Google Form from within a Doc. Great for creating
a Google form from an old worksheet
Word Cloud Generator- allows you to create a summary of a section of text with a specific number of words- nice graphic display
Talk & Comment- another way to speak into a device and leave a comment in oral form rather than by text.

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

Growing in confidence using Google docs and the tools for shortcuts. Very useful session today, especially liked the practical application of the information shared. I look forward to learning more in the next 8 weeks.

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