Day Two - DFI Course (Paparore School)
In one of the morning presentations, the focus was on the Manaiakalani kaupapa. In this session there was lots of korero around effective pedagogy, accelerated learning and digital opportunities for learning. One of my key takeaways from this session was that expecting accelerated learning outcomes without teacher effectiveness, was a disappointment waiting to happen. I completely agreed with that statement as I believe that along with our learners, effective teaching should be at the centre of what we do as educators.
Throughout the day we also explored Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Meet and Google Keep. These were all apps that I have used previously and continue to use in my daily life, both at home and school.
I am finding that this course is providing me with little tips and tricks that can improve how I use the apps. However, a lot of what we have covered or explored so far, are things I am lucky enough to already have knowledge and experience with. We were also shown how to tame our tabs, which was a good reminder of how to group tabs together. This is something I have used before but had completely forgotten about.
As I teach a year two class, what we have explored so far isn't really going to be very applicable for my learners. My class won't be using a lot of these apps so I found that today's course was more about how to use the apps more effectively and ways to organise Google calendar and gmail.
In the afternoon sessions we practised using google calendar to create a google meet. We worked with a buddy to participate in the google meet. One person had to present their screen and discuss a blog post that we had been looking at. We had a few questions to think about and discuss during our google meet. Here is the recording of our google meet below.
We also had to think about what the learn aspect of Manaiakalani looks like in our school. My thinking is that learn looks like the range of learning experiences that students have across the curriculum. It looks like a range of contexts, cross curricular learning and a range of learning goals. I am sure that over the course of DFI and working at a Manaiakalani school, my knowledge and understanding of the learn aspect will continue to grow.
Hi Jess, I really enjoyed reading your blog. I am also teaching year 2 and feel the voice typing will be of particular use to my students. I will probably get them to write their story then recite it onto their ipads so they can see how fluently they have written and help them to improve thinking about what they want to write in the future. Looking forward to working from home on Wednesday. Mandy
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading my post! I also think voice typing was a useful tool from Week 1 and something I can use with my class too. Sounds like some awesome ideas for your writing programme. I think the Google calendar, keep and gmail tips were probably things I wouldn’t end up using with my class however. I am also looking forward to learning from home too!
ReplyDeleteHi Jessie
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more, effective practice and having the pedagogy behind why we use different online tools is so important. If I think back to 2010, when I had a BYOD class I didn't have the digital pedagogy to support my practice. I found myself falling into the trap of using apps that were fun and were a bit of a novelty but I couldn't really see how effective they were.
Good to hear you're able to learn something even though you already have a lot of experience. Can you see yourself using Google Meet and even the recordings option for your own team meetings?
Hi Kerry,
ReplyDeleteThat is definitely a trap I think most teachers have fallen into at one time or another. I know I have!
I definitely see myself using Google Meet when needed. I didn't think about using it to record meetings but that's a great idea.
Thanks Kerry!