Week 8 - 31.3.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

Greetings to you all! 

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

It’s important that we understand our students in a deeper level by acknowledging their differences, celebrating their culture language and identity! We as educators need to continue to ask questions that challenge the stereotypes of what media portrays to the community..

Point to ponder: why share a video identifying the working poor? Why highlight the disparities??!

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Sharing the learning with the students. I really enjoyed learning together how to create a “ Scratch” talking Cat with the student. Letting myself be the learner and the student being the teacher was a great reminder that we are all learners:

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

Continue to provide multiple tasks that both the students and teachers are taking turns at leading, teaching and learning.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Spending time with a group and me being the learner listening to their tricks and tips on Sratch.

 Scratch- Tom the speaking cat!

Week 7 - 24.3.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

Great day overall for learning new ways I can present and share to my students, staff and our community! 

Below is a screenshot of my first attempt at using the app Explain Everything- "whiteboarding". I can see this being a very useful tool for students and teachers to work creatively together to talk about what they are learning together.

Below is me using Screencastify. It is a tool I used to record directly from my laptop. Otahuhu Primary School- HEART Values. It is also great for showing your learning or teaching others through rewindable learning.

Week 6- 17.3.2021

Visually seeing all the Schools Connecting across NZ through Maniakalani was very impressive! My wondering is how much more can we continue to connect to our Pasifika communities through connecting to our churches, community events and linking the same pedagogy “learn create share” to our families in our first languages.

Week 5 - 10.3.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

 

Greetings to you all, please see above using the Jamboard tool. This was a great tool to use with a buddy to collect and share information. We used the topic Treaty of Waitangi.

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Being a visual leader is important! I support that thinking "making teaching and learning visible. As a leader I agree that we need to have no surprises, yes to accessible and available to all.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Using the Jamboard is a great tool for sharing with a buddy to collect ideas, information and can then be used to create a Google Site.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?

Jamboard and also Google Site. Both these tools are a great way to share and present to our students, staff and our community.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
I would  definitely use Jamboard and Google Sites to present and share ideas with students and staff.

Google Site: Meritiana MacShane

Week 4 - 3.3.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

 

Hello and Welcome to my Blog! 
Below is me using the Google Sheets tool, to enter data and create a table an a graph. Lots of learning throughout this new tool. 

I really enjoyed how I could make the connections  with our school Data using both Google Forms and Google Sheets. Both these tools were very challenging but I could see the usefulness using it for the first time (properly). 

I did not participate in using Google maps as we did not have Admin rights, so will look to get the function turn on.

I look forward to using Google Form when I’m surveying our community, and asking for feedback/feed forward with the staff.

I enjoyed listening to the thinking behind the share aspect in Manaiakalani. I value sharing is a tool to listen and grow and learn from others.