Professional Inquiry #5 - Taking Action - DFI!

Participation in Digital Fluency Intensive across Terms 2-3.

These blog posts highlight what I have learnt about ubiquitous learning and how it empowers our learners and puts them at the centre of their learning especially when Dorothy pointed out that there is a clear link between visibility and acceleration.

https://whaeadebt.blogspot.com/2019/07/digital-fluency-intensive-cohort-2-2019_30.html

and

https://whaeadebt.blogspot.com/2019/08/digital-fluency-intensive-cohort-2-2019_20.html

DFI has certainly shaped my understanding of how much power the students have in their learning when they access our class site. They are no longer passive learners who are waiting for direction, instead they enjoy knowing exactly what to do next and the choices in their learning that it offers. This professional learning has helped me to understand that digital technology can and will extend and enhance learning when the student has learner agency and there is high-quality, learner-focused teaching happening in the classroom.

What did I do to integrate my new learning into my practice?

• All learning accessible on the class site, no longer shared via Hapara.
• Must do’s and choices for follow up across the literacy and numeracy areas.
• Providing more opportunities for students to make learning videos, google slides, google drawings to explain their learning to show understanding.
• Focussing on explicit teaching at all times and using relevant contexts for the students (making connections).
• Questioning to elicit connections - Prove it, justify your thinking, extend thinking, developing understanding, apply learning to other situations.
• Modelling Exemplars online – Used every chance to show or demonstrate to students exactly what they are expected to do. 
• Rewindable learning.
• Giving feedback - positive and encouraging to encourage reflective thinking - great you’ve shown you understand by …, you proved it!
• Using plenary sessions with individual students to understand student’s thinking around where they are at and what they need to do to move to the next level.