Digital Fluency Intensive #9

PLD - 2019 Term 1 - Session #9 - Digital Fluency Intensive

Agenda

Dorothy’s presentation about “ubiquitous” was good for us to know that
children learn anywhere, anytime, anyplace and from anyone.

Again ‘It’s not just a tool!” was reiterated so all of us focus

on the Manaiakalani Kaupapa.

Computational Thinking

The session with Zoe and Vivian was mind blowing in a good sense.  

Deep Dive

• Intro to the future of tech and what it means for our tamariki
• Ethics and Morals of machines.

Was interesting to listen to and digest.

Chalk ‘n Talk:

• Intro to the digital technologies curricula and structure
• Intro to the ‘Discipline language’ of Digital Technologies

Was very interesting to listen to and learn.

The need for all teachers to explore the digital technologies new curricula

is important.

The awareness of what the future will look like and be, is really exciting for

our students and the way we teach.

I still need to explore the website https://kiatakatu.ac.nz/ to sign in

and see what is available for PLD.

The brainstorming of ideas around Barriers, Time, Attitude / Confidence,

Resources, Skills, Needs, Strengths and Next Steps around

the Digital curriculum was enlightening.

I am sure we as a CoL can meet this challenge of the government

with ease with the expertise and enthusiasm we have around the cluster.

The DFI course was very valuable and enabled me to understand thoroughly
the Manaiakalani Kaupapa and fully use all Google apps more efficiently.

The PLD I acquired through the 9 weeks is immense.

I am now confident I can share this Professional Learning with my colleagues at school.

A big Thank you to Dorothy and Gerhard for enabling us all in Cohort #1 to
Learn / Create and Share, just like our Tamariki do.

Digital Fluency Intensive #8

PLD - 2019 Term 1 - Session #8 - Digital Fluency Intensive

Today’s session started with the “empowered” part of the Manaiakalani L/C/S pedagogy.

The fact that students and parents are empowered from the way we teach our students using devices is invaluable.

Dorothy's "Empowered" video

Doing the Google Certified Teacher exam was a good experience even though it was a
time pressure test.

This definitely made me understand how to use Google apps and use them well to
teach our students.

A good session on how to bling blogs by Gerhard helped us make our blogs
inviting to the rest of the world.

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My Teaching as Inquiry - 2019

My Hunch: Bridging gaps in Number knowledge and teaching smart strategies
explicitly to solve problems, will make the target group
successful in achieving at their expected level in Mathematics.

Target group: Rm 7/10 students

	Year Level	Beginning of year Num stage	Mid year Num stage	End of year Num stage
Bi	7	5	E6
Ka	7	E5	E5
Le	7	E6	5
Ma	8	E5	E6
Tu	8	E5	5
Tan	8	E5	5

Question: Will deliberate acts of teaching maths (bridging gaps + explicit teaching
of problem solving strategies) to the target group enable them to
enjoy problem solving and achieve at their expected level?

Time Frame: 2 terms (Terms 2 and 3)

Measurable by doing GLoSS testing each term.

I expect the students to more to the next stage and be more confident in solving complex word problems and talk about how they solved the problems.

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