Digital Fluency Intensive session 1

8 March 2019

Attending the Digital Fluency Intensive is a must for all teachers using a digital platform for teaching and learning. I learnt lots of new 'tricks' and ideas that will make learning and communicating easier with the learners and wider school community.
Having been in the cluster since 2007, it was great to be reminded of the journey thus far. It was also great to hear the ideas and pedagogy shared at Learning through Play reiterated today when Dorothy stated that:
" Deliberate acts of teaching is the fundamental element in the LEARN part of the Manaiakalani Kaupapa."

Learnings/ AHA moments

I was able to take all my learning from today and compile it into an info graphic which we also learnt how to do.
Implementation with New Entrants? ....YES!
My New Entrants could use voice typing to work on pronunciation and punctuation.
Info Graphics to share learning.

I can also see the ease of using google groups and headings and table of contents to share with my colleagues and management. Life has suddenly become a little easier.

Ramblings/ Rumblings
* Is it possible to have EE and Docs work together to help improve and accelerate my learners?
* Is their a possibility to include play based learning using some of the ideas and tricks....

Manaiakalani School Leaders PLG

Kiri and I attended the Manaiakalani School Leaders PLG this morning. A great morning sharing our data and looking at our school narrative relating to our data. A time to unpack and delve deeper into what is happening in our school and our next steps.

We also had the opportunity to listen to Jannie van Hees and her thoughts, ideas and practical ways to accelerate language acquisition. I am looking forward to implementing some of these in my classroom practice and hearing more ways to promote an Abundance of Language.

WFR Feedback

It is always a privilege to get feedback from DR Rebecca Jensen and reflect on our cluster data. It was also fantastic to see the junior school data and discuss trends, challenges and the way forward with teachers from other schools that were seated around us.

Manaiakalani Class on Air

I am excited to be a part of this group of teachers who are willing to share our classroom practice with the world. We are the 2018 Manaiakalani Google Class on Air Educators. With the help of Anne Sinclair and Matt Goodwin we invite you to journey into our classrooms as we work to accelerate learning, share our pedagogy and put Learn, Create, Share into action. Today we started our collaboration by discussing our achievement challenges and goals. I am really looking forward to this journey.

Manaiakalani Digital Immersion Orientation Day.

It was fantastic to connect to new teachers joining our schools in the Manaiakalani Cluster. The room was a buzz with teaches collaborating to ensure our teaching is visible and easily accessible for our learners and whanau. Thanks to Dorothy and Fiona for always willing to lend a hand and sharing their knowledge.