DFI session 6 - 31 July 2019 Tautoro school
Enabling access
Today's agenda
Visible learning
Can be seen by students and their whanau - the education process needs to be clear and not mysterious to parents.
Whanau need to understand the learning happening in their own children's lives.
Also visibility of us as teachers to our colleagues. Open and sharing of information with our colleagues.
We need to stop hiding what makes education success to students and whanau. Unpack step by step for learners and their parents what they are supposed to be doing.
Successful students in the past have generally had parents who experienced success - conversations in their homes generally parents talk and children absord what makes success at school. How can it happen in homes where the parents were not successful themselves?
Visibility is the way to change this - the intentional use of technology is a game changer for visible learning. This includes teacher planning and outlines. Students need to see the goals to move ahead.
Some things are genuinely private e.g. personal student info. But everything else should be visible.
Sites allow everything to be visible. Access is mobile and accessible.
Think about the visibility of the learning for your students - physical and online visibility. Just like windows in the classroom it makes it safer for all.
On Air classes share everything - inquiry teachers also share online.
The default should be to make everything visible in class including planning.
Visibility has a clear correlation to successful outcomes.
Goal collegiality blossoms - sharing is the norm.
Sites
How are they good for students, whanau and teachers? Different perspectives.
Site reviews
What is the purpose of your site - ease of access for your learners.
Images, theme -to keep continuity for the students.
Need simplicity of navigation for the site to work well - aim for no more than 3 clicks to ensure ease of access.
Try to minimise fonts - not more than two for consistency.
Buttons can be made in various places e.g. shapes in google draw.
Layouts on the side can also create buttons.
We got to view lots of other peoples sites which was helpful and time to improve three things on our site. My focus is maths links, filmmaking slides inserted and improving writing slides.
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy and Visible learning?
The importance of making learning visible to colleagues as well as to the students. Visibility should be the starting point and we need a really good reason not to share planning and other resources with other teachers. Visibility allows students and their whanau access to all their learning. It also means staff can share without having to ask each other to send resources as they can retreive themselves. I feel more confident about the visibility aspect of the process following Dorothy's explanation today which was clear and helpful.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
It was great to have the time to put some more rewindable learning opportunities into my blog. I was able to create three sets of slides about new topic areas and create new pages for them in my blog. Feedback from some teachers who have been using sites for awhile is that they are moving away from lots of slidebanks and just using information put directly into the blog. So I will plan on trying this out more.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
To make everything in the site more accessible and to be quicker to access. To make everything visible through the site for learners and so they are able to share with their whanau. It is easier for the learners to have everything in one place.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Some tips to make my site function more easily for my learners. A reminder on how to get things into the site - I will try to add things daily for the next few weeks to ensure the practices become embedded into my learning and make it easier to progress.
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
DFI session 5 Paparore school 25 July 2019
DFI session 5 -25 July 2019
Agenda for today's session
session 5 notes
Cybersmart
About empowering people.
Cybersmart categories don't change throughout school - its just how you engage that is different.
Term 1 - smart learners -our learn term
Term 2 - smart footprint -our create term
Term 3 - smart realtionships - our share term
Learning accessible any time any place anywhere!
Learners can make a public comment - values that what they say is important.
We need/want students to be able to make decisions about what is appropriate to share online on their own.
Keep the focus to the language of the kawa of care e.g. a student on you tube - say are you in the right place doing the right thing - consistently use the words in the kawa of care to redirect and comment - use the vocab of the cyber smart curriculum.
Digital footprint - get students to change every year as they age and change. Integrate kawa of care into reading and writing programmes.
Hapara
Smart share - pushing work out to students - workflow - it is the share files button.
Hapara is to help with learning - not to monitor what they are doing at all times. Look at student incomplete work - "I notice you have not done this or changed this - do you need any help?"
Use supportive language not monitoring language.
Highlights - guide browsing - filter session - negotiate with students length of the focus session for reading.
Filter prevents access to certain things - focus directs students to only these things.
Focus - give them acceess to only what you want them to view and use. Set the time.
docs.google.com
drive.google.com
link to published view of the site
Particular readings or docs etc.
Treaty partnership and engagement with the community are vital to this working e.g. kawa of care developed with whanau.
Digital Dig
Tried on chrome books to see how they work for the students.
ipads
Explain everything teachers don't need to create everything and should share what is created
Screencastify video
We tried to make a video looking at the kawa of care and practicing talking through multiple screens. It did not work very well as we were in a noisy room with lots of noise interferrence but it was interesting to practice.
To embed screencastify - we got the html link and then located in the code where it should go using finder and then pasted it in.
Evaluation
What did I learn that increased my understanding of the Cybersmart curriculum within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
The purpose of teaching cybersmart from the beginning of school and the aim of where students will get to over their school journey. We can scaffold and support to a certain degree but at the end of the day the students need to be able to access the digital world independently. Empower the learners and then look for how they can empower their family to understand how to use devices safely. This is vital as many of our whanau fear the safety of devices - this came out at recent parent interviews. Ask students to tell you the kawa of care rules - helps the conversations between teacher and student and students and whanau.
Get parents to comment on their children's blogs - positive, thoughtful, helpful.
We can check the deleted trash - we can see their digital footprint. It is good to remind them of this - even if you delete something anyone could have screen shots of it in the interim.
Kawa of care developed with whanau of Manaiakilani - it was aimed at giving equal access to all learners and also to whanau when chromebooks go home - if students are offline at home they need to be empowered to get the informaiton they need e.g. screenshot sites to continue tasks at home. Everyone is contributing to the process and everyone has a voice. Equity in participation is essential to the program. Digital fluency requires the student to be able to use the device. Digital digs should happen at every year level every year!
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
How to use guided browsing. I was unsure of how to locate it again and needed the refresher we got today to restrict and limit access if needed. Also the refresher on parts of Hapara was very helpful as a reminder of how to best use it - the focus not on monitoring but supporting the student learning is key. I am looking forward to having another try at using guided browsing this week.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Using blogging more as part of my reading and writing curriculum to ensure better integration. A better understanding of the digital dig in the cybersmart curriculum and what it is like to use a chromebook for the students as they are different to a pc. Cyber smart site also has other ways to engage the learners in the general curriculum through activities.
Availability of the ipad support site to help with use.
Deep dive into text - we need to spend less time skimming and longer getting deeper into text. Look at the language in a video - make links to learning and allow references to the text in the audio so students can focus on the language and other features of the text.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Screencastify could be useful but experimenting with it uses up the quota of video's available very rapidly. We had trouble ensuring it was recording screen changes and then it required extra permissions, when I said no it stopped the video. I am still not comfortable with using my image on screen so think I will just use the microphone function rather than the camera. I can see how it will be very useful but the inability to edit without purchasing the function is a negative. I will need to practice with this a lot more to be effective as I am not yet confient with this.
Agenda for today's session
session 5 notes
Cybersmart
About empowering people.
Cybersmart categories don't change throughout school - its just how you engage that is different.
Term 1 - smart learners -our learn term
Term 2 - smart footprint -our create term
Term 3 - smart realtionships - our share term
Learning accessible any time any place anywhere!
Learners can make a public comment - values that what they say is important.
We need/want students to be able to make decisions about what is appropriate to share online on their own.
Keep the focus to the language of the kawa of care e.g. a student on you tube - say are you in the right place doing the right thing - consistently use the words in the kawa of care to redirect and comment - use the vocab of the cyber smart curriculum.
Digital footprint - get students to change every year as they age and change. Integrate kawa of care into reading and writing programmes.
Hapara
Smart share - pushing work out to students - workflow - it is the share files button.
Hapara is to help with learning - not to monitor what they are doing at all times. Look at student incomplete work - "I notice you have not done this or changed this - do you need any help?"
Use supportive language not monitoring language.
Highlights - guide browsing - filter session - negotiate with students length of the focus session for reading.
Filter prevents access to certain things - focus directs students to only these things.
Focus - give them acceess to only what you want them to view and use. Set the time.
docs.google.com
drive.google.com
link to published view of the site
Particular readings or docs etc.
Treaty partnership and engagement with the community are vital to this working e.g. kawa of care developed with whanau.
Digital Dig
Tried on chrome books to see how they work for the students.
ipads
Explain everything teachers don't need to create everything and should share what is created
Screencastify video
We tried to make a video looking at the kawa of care and practicing talking through multiple screens. It did not work very well as we were in a noisy room with lots of noise interferrence but it was interesting to practice.
To embed screencastify - we got the html link and then located in the code where it should go using finder and then pasted it in.
Evaluation
What did I learn that increased my understanding of the Cybersmart curriculum within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
The purpose of teaching cybersmart from the beginning of school and the aim of where students will get to over their school journey. We can scaffold and support to a certain degree but at the end of the day the students need to be able to access the digital world independently. Empower the learners and then look for how they can empower their family to understand how to use devices safely. This is vital as many of our whanau fear the safety of devices - this came out at recent parent interviews. Ask students to tell you the kawa of care rules - helps the conversations between teacher and student and students and whanau.
Get parents to comment on their children's blogs - positive, thoughtful, helpful.
We can check the deleted trash - we can see their digital footprint. It is good to remind them of this - even if you delete something anyone could have screen shots of it in the interim.
Kawa of care developed with whanau of Manaiakilani - it was aimed at giving equal access to all learners and also to whanau when chromebooks go home - if students are offline at home they need to be empowered to get the informaiton they need e.g. screenshot sites to continue tasks at home. Everyone is contributing to the process and everyone has a voice. Equity in participation is essential to the program. Digital fluency requires the student to be able to use the device. Digital digs should happen at every year level every year!
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
How to use guided browsing. I was unsure of how to locate it again and needed the refresher we got today to restrict and limit access if needed. Also the refresher on parts of Hapara was very helpful as a reminder of how to best use it - the focus not on monitoring but supporting the student learning is key. I am looking forward to having another try at using guided browsing this week.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Using blogging more as part of my reading and writing curriculum to ensure better integration. A better understanding of the digital dig in the cybersmart curriculum and what it is like to use a chromebook for the students as they are different to a pc. Cyber smart site also has other ways to engage the learners in the general curriculum through activities.
Availability of the ipad support site to help with use.
Deep dive into text - we need to spend less time skimming and longer getting deeper into text. Look at the language in a video - make links to learning and allow references to the text in the audio so students can focus on the language and other features of the text.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Screencastify could be useful but experimenting with it uses up the quota of video's available very rapidly. We had trouble ensuring it was recording screen changes and then it required extra permissions, when I said no it stopped the video. I am still not comfortable with using my image on screen so think I will just use the microphone function rather than the camera. I can see how it will be very useful but the inability to edit without purchasing the function is a negative. I will need to practice with this a lot more to be effective as I am not yet confient with this.
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