Day 7 DFI Course - Waitangi Treaty Grounds
We spent our day at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds which was stunning. It was lovely to be on this whenua for the day.
As always, we started the day by reflecting on our past week. Then we moved on to our Hapara hot tips session where we learnt about workspaces and how they can be used to store resources and assessments among other things.
Our next session was around the new digital technologies curriculum. We learnt about the two parts to the digital curriculum; computational thinking for digital technologies, and designing and developing digital outcomes. I had been to a workshop earlier this year based around this new curriculum but honestly haven't revisited it since. So it was good to go back to it and learn more about it.
One part of this korero was about how teachers need to ensure that we choose digital technologies purposefully as opposed to using things that are just fun or have that novelty factor. This is something I think we have to constantly reflect on because there are so many apps and websites that we come across that look great, but aren't really that effective within our classroom programmes.
We also saw some examples of learning intentions that could be used that are in line with the progression outcomes of the curriculum. These were great because I can easily incorporate these into my classroom programme, especially when we are using technology like the Bee-bots.
The next session was a deep dive into the future of tech. We looked at one video that had a lot examples of what technology might look like one day. It's interesting to think about as I think there are many pros and cons. Kerry also highlighted that we often don't know about breakthrough technologies that are happening right now in New Zealand.
Our next session was based around the Manaiakalani pedagogy focus of empower. We learnt about how this aspect is really about empowering people to take back control of their lives. Part of these slides were about the lives of whanau who struggle with the cost of living and having a limited income. Vicki talked about how students in lower decile schools are coming to school having heard far less spoken words than students in high decile schools and how this affects their schooling. She also talked about how we can have the ping pong type conversations with students through things like blogging.
We then had a session around stop motion. It was great because we had the chance to create our own animations. I worked with Paul and we used the stars for our animation. We spent a bit of time just looking through the buttons and tools within the stop motion site.
Our next session was around using Scratch. I have used Scratch Jr in the past so it was good to explore this tool further. After lunch we had the opportunity to explore more of Scratch, stop motion animation or the blue bots / bee bots. I saw some awesome examples of how we could create plastic grid mats for the students to use when programming the bee bots. Alicia showed us how we can use the mats for story sequencing and foundation facts in mathematics. We also looked at some resources that we can find online to use with the bee bots too. I made a video of how I programmed the blue bot to move to different characters.
Next I created a stop motion animation. I had a play around with the tools on the site, created a title page and added text to the video as well. I enjoyed learning about this today. It was a lovely day of learning.
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