Digital Fluency Intensive - Cohort #2 2019 - Day Six

Our day began with a beautiful welcome from the students at Tautoro School. The waiata that they sang was sung beautifully and it was an awesome start to the day.

We then moved onto our 'Visibility' focus with a Google Hang Out with Dorothy. Dorothy spoke to us about making the learning visible, ensuring that our students learning is not a secret to them or their whanau. We want our students to have opportunities to be successful, we want learning to be VISIBLE for them! If learning is accessible and available then students will advance! Dorothy pointed out that there is a clear link between visibility and acceleration. Hapara has made the learning visible to us as teachers, our google sites has made learning visible for our learners and their whanau. 

The success of visible learning was highlighted when Wil I Am visited NZ and wanted to support rangatahi from a low decile area. The visible learning on blogs from the Manaiakalani schools was evident to Wil I Am and his entourage and thus received his generous $100,000 donation!

The next part of our learning came from Whaea Gaylene - Tautoro School.

One of the things that she said that has resonated with me was 'Is my learning site something that kids would want to go into from home?'. The answer to that question for my site is NO. The site works and the students can follow what they need to do but it isn't really visually engaging for the students. I realised I have a lot of work to do on my class site to make it a place that students would want to go to after school. The other thing I need to do is to make sure all of my student's learning visible. This is a goal to work towards over the next 2 weeks.

I learnt a lot today with regards to what a successful site needs to look like and how it is operational. The two important criteria are: the visual appeal i.e. shop window and  the users experience - easy to locate ‘stuff’ (2/3 clicks). I have lots of ideas to use from the exemplars that we viewed. 

Organising my files and documents continues to be something that I am taking over into my home life. My digital school life is becoming more organised which means I have more time for my whanau life which is the most important!

Digital Fluency Intensive - Cohort #2 2019 - Day Five

Being Cybersmart is all about empowering our learners as connected and confident decision makers where they have the confidence to share their learning on a platform that is theirs. We need to encourage our students and reinforce to them that they have something to share and it is important. We are empowering the students as learners! Tell the students 'their blog belongs to them, be PROUD.'

How do we phrase our learning related to cybersafety? What do we say? How do we say it? Does it have negative connotations? How can we make the outcomes positive? Looking at cybersafety from a positive point of view will ensure that the connections made elevate positive actions from our learners. 

Are you in the right place at the right time? 

This was a fabulous light bulb moment for me, instead of saying to students, "you shouldn't be in there' instead say, 'Are you in the right place? Is this the right time for that?'

I created a DLO Screencastify to highlight this lesson on the Manaiakalani Cybersafety site.

I had quite a few moments during today's session that I thought, 'ohhhhhhhhhh .... that makes sense!" Today I realised that my digital work flow is not efficient. Fiona reminded the group that 'If you share a file on smart share (via Hapara) you should share it on your site first.' I do not do this. This has made be rethink how I have set up my reading in my class site. There are too many clicks at the moment and I can reduce this by setting my reading up directly on the class site. I am really excited about re-jigging my class site to make the work flow more efficient and effective for my learners.

The Digital Dig is an excellent resource for learners and I know my students would benefit from working their way through these slides. This would be an excellent way for the students to teach their whanau about what they actually can do when they use their chromebooks. I am going to break the Digital Dig down and the students will work through these over the first 5 weeks of term, posting their learning on their blogs at each step.

Screencastify is an awesome classroom tool which my students have really enjoyed using to record their maths learning. I need to use Screencastify more often as a learning tool for myself and my students.

Our Ipad learning was a reminder to me that 'chromebooks' are not the only technology available to our students. My knowledge of Ipads is quite limited and it was great to have an insight into what is actually available to our students when they use different technology. I look forward to using this new knowledge when I use the Ipads back in my classroom. I enjoyed each of the aspects that we focused in on today and especially enjoyed Fiona Grant sharing her digital expertise with us.

Professional Inquiry #4 - Taking Action - Expected Outcomes?

Inquiry Question - How will the  Manaiakalani Pedagogy - Learn, Create, Share increase the agency of my students and accelerate their learning in literacy.

Students need to know where they are at in their learning, what they should learn next, how they could learn this best and how to reach beyond what they think they can do.

The focus needs to be on setting up systems and processes to release control from teacher to student and to use digital technology as a tool to engage and accelerate learning.

The ideal outcome is to set clear pathways that students can follow that are guided by the teacher and monitored by students and teachers and shared with whanau by the students. 

The class site will giving students a multimodal learning experience that they can access at their own pace with clear learning steps. 

TOD - 22.07.19 - Christine Rubie-Davies - High Teacher Expectation

Christine Rubie-Davies

• High expectation teacher - improved and better outcomes for students

• Mixed ability grouping is proven to improve the outcomes for students (Pisa Research).

• Stereotyping becomes bias when there is prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• Research show that teachers have lower expectations for minority students across the world.

• High Expectation 
• Teachers have the biggest effect on outcomes for students
• Mixed Ability Grouping
• Self-managing students
• Positive, well managed classroom
• Effective teaching, valuing background, promoting student autonomy
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• Positive Class Climate
• Whanaungatanga
• Kotahitanga
• Manaakitanga

• Goal Setting
• Rangatiratanga - responsibility for learning
• Wananga - joint goal setting, encouraging questions
• Mana Motuhake - teachers care, clear feedback, goal focused, perseverance and resilience

How can goal setting enhance student learning?

Extrinsic vs Intrinsic Reward Systems

Extrinsic rewards tend to lessen intrinsic motivation. The effect of rewards on intrinsic motivation is related to 'the recipient's perception of their own competence and capacity for self-determination'. (Deci, Koestner & Ryan)

Benefits of intrinsic motivation

• Persistence
• Creativity
• Conceptual understanding
• Optimal functioning and well being

Goal Setting

• Teaching students how to goal set

Mastery and performance goals

Classroom Climate

• Student engagement and class climate are linked
• Building relationships with students is a key to a successful classroom climate
• Consider your students world
• Think about verbal and non verbal communication with students

Planning for Change